Catherine Allégret

Catherine Allégret

Born: April 16, 1946
in Paris, France
Catherine Allégret (born 16 April 1946) is a French actress. She is the daughter of Simone Signoret and Yves Allégret.

In 2007, she portrayed Édith Piaf's grandmother Louise Gassion in Olivier Dahan's biopic La Vie En Rose (La Môme in French).

Allégret has been married twice. Her first marriage was to Jean-Pierre Castaldi, with whom she has a son, Benjamin Castaldi. Her second husband is Maurice Vaudaux, with whom she has a daughter, Clémentine.

In 2004, Allégret published a memoir titled World Upside Down (Un monde à l'envers) in which she wrote that she was sexually abused by her stepfather Yves Montand for many years from the age of 5.

Source: Article "Catherine Allégret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Catherine Allégret...

Title: Seeds of Change
Character: Léonie
Released: August 29, 2022
Type: TV
Provence, 1847. The son of a wealthy landowner in the south of France, Jean-Baptiste, loses his mother in a tragic accident. His truculent father, who was always envious of his son and his relationship with his mother, takes a harlot he met a few months earlier as his new bride. Soon after, Jean-Baptiste is falsely accused by his "stepmother" of trying to take advantage of her. In disgust, his father banishes him forever from the family home. Jean-Baptiste's only solution is to live with Blanche, his mother's sister, in the mountains.
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How Mom Turned to Armed Robbery
Title: How Mom Turned to Armed Robbery
Character: Marta
Released: November 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Despite her best intentions and hard work, a single mom with two sons just can't make ends meet and is forced to depend upon credit just to get by. Desperate, she can see only one solution left to save her family: stage a hold-up.
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Yves Montand, l'ombre au tableau
Title: Yves Montand, l'ombre au tableau
Character: Self
Released: May 15, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Fanny Brun
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Mylène Bouvier
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
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Title: La Parenthèse inattendue
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: TV
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Fatal
Title: Fatal
Character: Milka Lafondue
Released: June 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Fatal... a diminutive for Fatal Bazooka, a bling-bling and hardcore rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tens of hits, 4 « Artist of the year » Music Awards of Music, a range of fashion, a magazine, and soon his own amusement park : Fataland. He is the undisputed number one, until...
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Title: Nouvelle Maud
Character: Hélène Ackert
Released: June 5, 2010
Type: TV
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They Saw Inferno
Title: They Saw Inferno
Character: Self
Released: April 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A wonderful documentary that sheds additional light on the fascinating project ‘Inferno’ was, as well as how those who were involved with it reacted to it during the shooting process. A riveting adjunct to the main feature, offering a glut of interviews with various people associated with the production, and presenting quite a bit more production data, as well as some unseen footage from Clouzot's shoot.
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The Round Up
Title: The Round Up
Character: La concierge 'Tati'
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Title: Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Character: (images d'archives)
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Cousine de Huguette, voyante
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Title: Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Character: Yvette / Self - Interviewee
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.
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La Vie en Rose
Title: La Vie en Rose
Character: Louise Gassion
Released: February 14, 2007
Type: Movie
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
Title: Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
Character: self
Released: December 3, 2004
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at Bernardo Bertolucci’s classic film about the dark side of the sexual revolution: Last Tango in Paris, starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider.
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Mariages !
Title: Mariages !
Character: Chantal, la mère de Ben
Released: April 21, 2004
Type: Movie
A wedding is an opportunity for three couples of different generations to question commitment and the strength of love.
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Mariages !
Title: Mariages !
Released: April 21, 2004
Type: Movie
A wedding is an opportunity for three couples of different generations to question commitment and the strength of love.
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Title: Un film et son époque
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Character: Catherine
Released: December 15, 1997
Type: TV
Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers.
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Ma tu mi vuoi bene?
Title: Ma tu mi vuoi bene?
Released: January 26, 1992
Type: Movie
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Mister Frost
Title: Mister Frost
Character: Dr. Corbin
Released: April 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be.
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Title: Navarro
Character: Ginou
Released: October 26, 1989
Type: TV
Out of the norm police officer Navarro and his team investigate the most troubling, serious and heart rendering cases in the city of Paris.
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Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
Title: Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
Character: Simone Lagrange
Released: November 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife, who, with the help of her Jewish law-student husband, Serge, begins an unrelenting campaign after World War II to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.
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Tailleur pour dames
Title: Tailleur pour dames
Character: Rosa
Released: September 15, 1985
Type: Movie
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Urgence
Title: Urgence
Released: June 29, 1985
Type: Movie
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin, a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop the bombing is Lyza, whose brother was killed by this group of fascists, and so she is ardently seeking revenge. After Mougin gets his hands on a videotape that reveals the plot to blow up the concert and its audience, he and Lyza join forces. As the fuse gets shorter and shorter, Mougin is also joined by sympathetic street gangs. Thus reinforced, he faces his opposition (including crooked cops) in increasingly more desperate attempts to stop Murmeau, the leader of the Nazi gang, from carrying out his terrorist objective.
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Le Braconnier de Dieu
Title: Le Braconnier de Dieu
Character: Marie-Fraise
Released: January 5, 1983
Type: Movie
A monk for thirty-seven years, Brother Gregory could not resist the temptation. Leaving the monastery for the first time to fulfill his duty as a voter, he catches up with pastis and women.
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Josepha
Title: Josepha
Character: Dolly
Released: March 10, 1982
Type: Movie
An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film.
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Title: Au bon beurre
Character: Léonie
Released: December 13, 1981
Type: TV
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Au bon beurre
Title: Au bon beurre
Character: Léonie
Released: April 8, 1981
Type: Movie
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Une robe noire pour un tueur
Title: Une robe noire pour un tueur
Character: Mrs. Reynolds
Released: January 14, 1981
Type: Movie
The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.
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Chanel Solitaire
Title: Chanel Solitaire
Character: Gabrielle's Friend
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.
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Womanlight
Title: Womanlight
Character: Prostitute
Released: August 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
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Title: Médecins de nuit
Character: Léone
Released: September 22, 1978
Type: TV
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Don't Bite, We Love You
Title: Don't Bite, We Love You
Character: Agnès, la mère
Released: May 3, 1976
Type: Movie
Georges,a trucker, is the single father of young Frédéric. His job prevents him from seeing his son as often as he could, as often as he should. Brought up by his grandparents, Frédéric proves a difficult child. His only friend is his twelve-year-old neighbor Rose. One day, Georges tells his son how Agnès, his mother, abandoned him at birth. Upset by such a revelation, Frédéric decides to be revenged...
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Dear Fatherland Be at Peace
Title: Dear Fatherland Be at Peace
Character: Mietzi
Released: March 25, 1976
Type: Movie
1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west with a special order. However as soon as he's crossed the border, he reports to the police. He claims his order was to kidnap someone, but he doesn't know who yet. He's forced to continue feignedly. However the east agents don't really trust him and play a double game...
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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The Wild Goose Chase
Title: The Wild Goose Chase
Character: Nicole
Released: October 8, 1975
Type: Movie
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Title: Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Character: Colette, la petite amie de Jean
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?
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Paul and Michelle
Title: Paul and Michelle
Character: Joanna
Released: March 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison after they have been reunited. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, college, and trying to maintain their family as well as a new love interest for Michelle.
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Chance and Violence
Title: Chance and Violence
Character: La fille de l'agence
Released: February 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked by a karate fanatic, he decides not to press charges. He refuses help from the police, preferring to take care of himself...
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The Burned Barns
Title: The Burned Barns
Character: Françoise Cateux
Released: May 30, 1973
Type: Movie
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
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Closed Shutters
Title: Closed Shutters
Character: Rita
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
1930. Adelaide is fed up with Paris and founds a 'retreat' for her women friends in a Breton port. They live well and take their pleasure seriously, until the attractive sailor Thomas arrives and nothing is ever the same again.
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Handsome Face
Title: Handsome Face
Released: November 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Pierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's political activities. Nevertheless, he takes part in a strikers' demonstration she leads, where he is bludgeoned to death by the CRS.
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Sex Shop
Title: Sex Shop
Character: Ginette
Released: October 25, 1972
Type: Movie
On the advice of a friend, Claude, married to the charming Isabelle and father of two, decided to transform his library, hardly flourishing, into a sex shop. This change of activity proves to be very lucrative and sharpens his desire to spice up his married life through various erotic experiences. Claude asks his wife to share with him the audacity he dreams of. Soon, the household meets a dentist and his wife and is engaged, without much success, to new discoveries. Isabelle, full of good will, tries to follow her husband ...
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Last Tango in Paris
Title: Last Tango in Paris
Character: Catherine
Released: October 14, 1972
Type: Movie
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
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J'ai tout donné
Title: J'ai tout donné
Released: June 21, 1972
Type: Movie
An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour.
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Money Money Money
Title: Money Money Money
Character: Activist (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1972
Type: Movie
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Un enfant dans la ville
Title: Un enfant dans la ville
Character: The hostess
Released: December 12, 1971
Type: Movie
"Un enfant dans la ville" was originally a Michel Fugain album, a record that already told a story. Now it's a musical comedy filmed for television, giving life to its characters and taking up the story of the record, that of today's generation, not quite at ease in their sneakers and trying to untie the laces of truth.
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It Only Happens to Others
Title: It Only Happens to Others
Character: La mère dans le parc
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.
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Smic, Smac, Smoc
Title: Smic, Smac, Smoc
Character: Catherine
Released: September 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Charles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards and live in the same construction facility. One day, Amidou leaves them to marry Catherine, a salesgirl. The trouble for Charles and Jean is that going to their friend's wedding means buying new clothes, which is problematic given their low income Moreover, they are determined to make this day an unforgettable one, despite their lack of money. Will they be able achieve their aim?
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Papa, the Lil' Boats
Title: Papa, the Lil' Boats
Character: Dany the Bar Waitress
Released: April 22, 1971
Type: Movie
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
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Elise, or Real Life
Title: Elise, or Real Life
Character: Didi
Released: November 25, 1970
Type: Movie
Elise (Marie-Josee Nat) is a young provincial woman working in a factory in Paris. Her revolutionary brother secured the position for her, and she falls in love with an Algerian native who works with her. She becomes painfully aware of the prejudice he experiences from the police and his superiors. The recent conflict between France and Algeria only compounds the problems of Algerians in France. Her love and concern for the man causes her to search for him after he disappears one day. Elise considers moving to Algeria to find the man she loves in this bitter social drama.
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The Killer Strikes at Dawn
Title: The Killer Strikes at Dawn
Character: Jeannette
Released: April 8, 1970
Type: Movie
A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is befriended by an older female artist who is fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms. When his wife is late for their anniversary celebration, he drinks and takes mushrooms with the artist. He wakes up to find she has died and is fearful he may have accidentally killed her.
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Tout peut arriver
Title: Tout peut arriver
Character: Karine, the widow
Released: November 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Back in France after a few years in the United States, a reporter goes in search of his wife.
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Time to Live
Title: Time to Live
Character: Catherine
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Mary and Louis have been married for 10 years and have 2 children. Louis is a construction worker who, to support his wife and children in a comfort, works more and more. Mary asks Louis to spend more time with his family, but he replies that it is impossible. Marie makes the acquaintance of a former teacher of her son, he seems seduced by Marie who invites her over several times in the company of his children, his home ... The couple become unglued a little more when Louis meets a young prostitute. Can the couple manage to get through this?
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The Great Chase
Title: The Great Chase
Character: Mimi
Released: October 2, 1968
Type: Movie
A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.
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Title: Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Character: Emilienne
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: TV
L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.
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Carré de dames pour un as
Title: Carré de dames pour un as
Character: Marion, Tourist Guide
Released: October 5, 1966
Type: Movie
Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission almost becomes impossible with the rivalry of Layton's partner, Petula, the jealousy of his bride, Marion, the possible treachery of a Spanish woman, Dolores Arrabal, and yet a mysterious and sexy informant, Rosario... Too many women for Layton.
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Title: The Sleeping Car Murder
Character: Bambi
Released: November 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.