Pascale de Boysson (16 April 1922 – 9 August 2002) was a French film, television and stage actress who also adapted and translated plays for the French stage. She was a two-time winner of the Molière Award, winning it in 1988 and posthumously in 2003.
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Biography
Born as Marie Thérèse Antoinette Pascale de Boysson in April 1922 at Château de Châtillon in the commune of Chindrieux, she was one of ten children born to the aristocratic Louis de Boysson (1881-1971), a Director of the Paris Railroad Company in Orléans who married Marie Jeanne d'Anglejan-Châtillon in 1912. She was a pupil of Charles Dullin and Tania Balachova. In 1961 after meeting Laurent Terzieff she became his life partner and led the company Terzieff founded in 1961. She starred in more than fifty plays and the show Le Babil des classes dangereuses, which she helped to create in January 1984.
She adapted works by Murray Schisgal, Arnold Wesker and Sławomir Mrożek and in 2003 she posthumously received a Molière Award as the best adapter of a foreign work for Le Regard by Murray Schisgal. She also appeared in more than thirty films or TV movies, and lent her voice to the film L'Histoire sans fin, the French-language version of The NeverEnding Story. Her film roles include Gasparine in Lovers of Paris (1957), the bar owner in Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960), Sister Cécile in Dialogue of the Carmelites (1960), La servante des Boule in Amelie or The Time to Love (1961), Elisabeth Lapeyre in Les Abysses (1963), Simone in The Shameless Old Lady (1965), Blanche in Le Maître de pension (1973), Véronique in Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu (1973) and Mrs Clare in Tess (1979).
She died aged 80 on 9 August 2002 in La Noue and was buried at Coux-et-Bigaroque in the Dordogne.
Legacy
The Molière Award was awarded to Pascale de Boysson a few months after her death, with Laurent Terzieff thanking the profession and paying tribute to Pascale.
On 2 July 2015 the place Laurent-Terzieff-and-Pascale-of-Boysson was inaugurated in Paris, in the 6th district.
Filmography
Cinema
1957 : Pot-Bouille
1960 : Moderato cantabile
1960 : Dialogue of the Carmelites
1961 : Amelie or The Time to Love
1962 : Yannick Bellon's Marriage Office
1963 : All Who Fall
1963 : Les Abysses
1964 : The Adage
1964 : Widows
1965 : The Shameless Old Lady
1966 : The Second Twin
1970 : Madly
1973 : Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu
1973 : Le Maître de pension
1975 : Aloïse
1978 : Perceval le Gallois
1979 : Tess by Roman Polanski
1982 : Little Joseph
1985 : The Ragazza dei lilla
1992 : The Guéla
1994 : The Raft of the Medusa
2003 : Rien, voilà l'ordre
Television
1963 : The camera explores the time: The Truth on Stellio Lorenzi's Lyon mail case
1964 : The camera explores the weather: Mata-Hari by Guy Lessertisseur
1967 : Hedda Gabler
1973 : The Pension Master
1974 : Yellow grassy waves
1974 : The Birds of the Moon
1975 : Bérénice de Racine
1976 : Milady after Paul Morand, directed by François Leterrier
1978 : The Rope on Marcel Moussy's Neck
1981 : The Journey of the Dutchman
1983 : The Arrow in the Heart (La freccia nel fianco)
1986 : Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
1988 : A Doctor of Lights
1988 : The Last Five Minutes: Gilles Katz's Last Grand Prize
1992 : Liebesreise
1996 : Laurent Terzieff, the secret documentary man by Léon Desclozeaux
1997 : Baldi: Baldi and the Rich Little Ones by Claude of Anna and Michel Mees
Theatre
Actress
1952 : The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife by Federico García Lorca, directed by Raymond Hermantier, Theater of Humor
1954 : The Morning of a Man of Letters by Tania Balachova after Anton Chekhov, directed by Tania Balachova, Théâtre de la Huchette
1954 : Yerma by Federico García Lorca, directed by Guy Suarès, Théâtre de la Huchette
1955 : The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, directed by André Barsacq, Théâtre de l'Atelier
1955 : The Moon Birds by Marcel Aymé, directed by André Barsacq, Théâtre de l'Atelier
1956 : Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Guy Suarès, Franklin Theater
1958 : Miguel Mañana by Oscar Milosz, directed by Maurice Jacquemont, Studio des Champs-Élysées
1958 : When Five Years Pass by Federico García Lorca, directed by Guy Suarès, Théâtre Récamier
1959 : L'Échange by Paul Claudel, directed by Guy Suarès, Aix-en-Provence
1961 : The Thought, after Leonid Andreyev, adaptation Carlos Semprun, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce and Théâtre Hébertot (1962)
1961 : Les Nourrices by Romain Weingarten, directed by the author, Théâtre de Lutèce
1962 : L'Échange by Paul Claudel, directed by Guy Suarès, Théâtre Hébertot
1963 : The Tiger by Murray Schisgal, directed by Maurice Garrel and Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce
Adapter
1965 : Love by Murray Schisgal, Théâtre Montparnasse
1966 : Alas, poor Fred! by James Saunders, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce
1968 : Fragments by Murray Schisgal, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
1984 : The Typists and the Tiger by Murray Schisgal, adaptation with Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Dix-heures
Translator
1982 : The Ambassador by Sławomir Mrożek, translation with the author and Laurent Terzieff, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre Renaud-Barrault
Awards and Appointments
Molière Award 1988: Best Supporting Actress
Molière Award 2003: as the adapter for Le Regard (posthumous) - Théâtre Rive Gauche