Thérèse Liotard(1946-2026)

This French actress, of a subtle beauty, charms more by her finesse and her sensitivity than by flashy physical appeal. She has appeared in a great number of films, among which unfortunately a large number of TV movies that, never reprogrammed, do not allow us to enjoy as many performances from her as we would like.

Born on May 6, 1949 in Lille, she enrolled in the faculty of literature at the age of twenty, but she was more attracted to acting and decided to attend the Conservatory of Bordeaux. She also joined the Compagnie Dramatique d'Aquitaine in 1970 and started working as a television announcer (as a replacement during the same summer). After graduating, Thérèse moved to Paris where she did a series of small jobs, as an au pair, an employee for a bibliophile, a.s.o. in order to finance her training at the Cours Simon, which she attended in the afternoon. Thérèse was then 21 years old.

She took her first steps on the stage by performing in "La Peur", an adaptation of Alfred Jarry's "La Peur chez l'Amour", and then in a play by Samuel Beckett. The roles began to follow one another, including "The Masked Dagger" in the theater (1974) and "Une ténébreuse affaire" after the novel by Balzac (1975)

Thérèse Liotard then entered the world of cinema thanks to a series of fruitful encounters. Directors such as Agnès Varda, Bertrand Tavernier, Patrice Leconte, Luigi Comencini, Claude Sautet or Yves Robert gave her her most famous roles: Suzanne, one of the two heroines of "One Sings, the Other Doesn't " (1976); Tracey, reporter Harvey Keitel's ex-wife in "Death Watch" (1979); Françoise, Bernard Giraudeau's life companion in "Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine" (1980); the mother of "A Boy from Calabria " (1987); Régine, Dominique Lavanant's formerly leftist sister in "A Few Days with Me" (1988); Aunt Rose in "My Father's Glory " and "My Mother's Castle " (1989), a role she actually coveted more than that of the mother, which she found "funnier", and which finally earned her a nomination for the César for Best Supporting Actress. In 1990, she also played a recurring role in a British police series: "Bergerac". The same year, she played the mother of Judith Godrèche in "The Disenchanted" by Benoît Jacquot. She retired in 2013 after a beautiful role of mother in "Happiness" by Fabrice Grange and has since then given acting lessons. In 2018, closing this rich career, she was awarded the well-deserved "Reconnaissance des cinéphiles (Moviegoers' recognition)" prize.