Jeanne Sully

Jeanne Sully

Jeanne Sully, Sociétaire de la Comédie-Française
Born Jeanne Marie Régine Simone Champs
15 April 1905
Paris, France
Died 28 June 1995 (aged 90)
Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France
Nationality French
Occupation Actress

Jeanne Sully (15 April 1905 - 28 June 1995) (born Jeanne Régine Champs) was a French actress.

Biography

Jeanne Marie Régine Simone Champs was born in Paris on 15 April 1905. Her parents were the actors Jeanne Rémy and Jean Mounet-Sully, and her uncle was the actor Paul Mounet. She attended the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris, where she was a pupil of Raphaël Duflos. In 1924 she obtained a second prize for comedy, and in 1925 won a first prize in tragedy. She made her debut in 1925 at the Comédie-Française in Jean Racine's play Britannicus, in the role of Junie. She played in many stage roles, and in some films.[1]

She became the 394th member of the Comédie-Française in 1934.[2] She retired in 1946, but continued to make tours or give lectures both in France and abroad.[3] She died in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, on 28 June 1995 at the home for actors at Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne.[1]

Theater

Her theater roles included:

Play AuthorRole
Britannicus Jean Racine Junie
Le Cid Pierre Corneille Chimène
Andromaque Racine Hermione
Phèdre Jean Racine Aricie
Bérénice Jean Racine Bérénice
Ruy Blas Victor Hugo la Reine
On ne badine pas avec l'amour Alfred de Musset Camille
Le Malade imaginaire Molière Angélique
L'École des maris Molière Léonor
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand Roxanne
Le Gendre de M. Poirier Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau Antoinette
Le Mariage de Figaro Pierre Beaumarchais Chérubin
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Viola
Le Soulier de satin Paul Claudel doña Isabel
La Reine morte Henry de Montherlant Inès de Castro

Filmography

yearFilm Director Role
1912 Oedipe-roi (La Légende d'Œdipe) Gaston Roudès Antigone
1934 Une soirée à la Comédie-Française Léonce Perret Almanzor[4]
1937 Sœurs d'armes Léon Poirier Louise de Bettignies

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mort de la comédienne Jeanne Sully". Libération. 4 July 1995. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  2. ↑ "SULLY Marie-Simone-Régine Champs, dite Jeanne". Comédie-Française. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  3. ↑ "Jeanne Sully'". Revue mensuelle (Comédie-Française): 129–130. May=June 1984. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑ Frédérick Sully "Une Soirée à la Comédie-Française". Frères Mounet. 1934. Retrieved 2014-01-08.

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