Isabelle Renauld

Isabelle Renauld

Born: November 24, 1966
in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Isabelle Renauld (born 24 November 1966 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French actress. She trained at the Nanterre Amandiers theatre school directed by Patrice Chéreau from 1985 to 1987. She was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010.

Born in Saint-Malo to a pharmacist father and a mother who was an IFOP researcher, her parents divorced when she was 5 years old and she grew up with her mother and her sister, who is 3 years her senior. She quickly developed a passion for theatre and at the age of 16 decided to leave Brittany to devote herself to acting in Paris. She was admitted to the "free class" of the Cours Florent in 1984 where she met Pierre Romans who encouraged her to try for the Nanterre Amandiers school which he runs with Patrice Chéreau. She succeeded in the competition when only the top twenty become part of Patrice Chéreau's cast. She learned her trade with Agnes Jaoui, Vincent Pérez, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Bruno Todeschini, Marc Citti.

She met Laurent Malet there, who became her companion and the father of her son Théo.

In 1990, she landed the role of Isabelle in L'Opération Corned-Beef alongside Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. She rose to prominence in 1996 with the scandalous Parfait Amour! by Catherine Breillat which earned her the Prix Michel-Simon.

A year later, in 1997, she met Theo Angelopoulos and acted in Eternity and a Day which received the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1998.

She has appeared in three films by François Dupeyron in 1999, 2001 and 2003 (What is life?, Mr. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, and the House of Officers), two by Philippe Lioret in 2006 and 2011 (Don't Worry, I'm fine and All Our Desires), and two by Catherine Breillat.

She lives in Paris but often returns to Saint-Malo to "recharge" and to reconnect with her roots.

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

Movies for Isabelle Renauld...

Title: Enquête à cœur ouvert
Character: Professeur Lemoine
Released: December 8, 2022
Type: TV
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Forever Young
Title: Forever Young
Character: Assistante de Patrice Chereau
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
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Un mauvais garçon
Title: Un mauvais garçon
Character: Cécile Delage
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Kepler(s)
Character: Catherine Hadad
Released: February 13, 2019
Type: TV
Kepler is a cop who suffers from a multiple personality disorder. Posted in Calais, he tries to put his life back together with his wife and daughter. When the body of a young student is found in a migrant camp, Kepler pairs up with a young local cop named Alice, who is both his guide and a witness to his downfall.
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Death in the Soul
Title: Death in the Soul
Character: Valérie Lagnier
Released: January 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Marc Lagnier confesses to the murder of his adored son, but refuses to explain.
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Title: Souviens-toi
Character: Fabienne Gaudin
Released: January 10, 2018
Type: TV
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Un ciel radieux
Title: Un ciel radieux
Character: Madeleine
Released: October 6, 2017
Type: Movie
One night, Vincent, the father of a family and an overworked employee of an insurance company, loses control of his vehicle and strikes Leo, a young motorcycle, with full force. At the hospital, Vincent is declared dead and Leo is in a coma. When the latter comes out, it is the spirit of Vincent who took possession of the body of the young man. The opportunity for Vincent of a possible redemption to his relatives and an improbable and wonderful encounter, between life and death, with Leo. For the mind of the young man does not take long to resurface.
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Venice: Flamboyant to the End
Title: Venice: Flamboyant to the End
Character: self (voice)
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
No city in the world has sparked as many desires and fantasies as Venice. In the 18th century, its heady atmosphere of freedom produced an extraordinary cultural flowering. Famous artists like Vivaldi, Tiepolo father and son, Canaletto, Longhi, Guardi, Goldoni and Casanova hurled themselves into a giddy whirl of libertinage while leaving their stamp on the unique city. Then, in 1797, Venice surrendered to Napoleon Bonaparte. Carnival was over, and the masks came off. Venice: Flamboyant to the End transports us from canal to canal, palazzo to palazzo, bathing us in the magical atmosphere of this maze of a city and conjuring up the uniquely flamboyant Venice of the 18th century.
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Me Against The World
Title: Me Against The World
Character: Charriere
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Audrey is an unemployed single mother who lives with her 16-year-old son, Enzo. All is going well for Enzo, a bright kid who loves sports, until he takes a medical drug and is suddenly faced with a critical illness. Even though Audrey has never been a fighter, she discovers a new strength and embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about what happened with the help of pro-bono lawyer Master Tcheuffa.
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Toi que j'aimais tant
Title: Toi que j'aimais tant
Character: Cécile
Released: October 25, 2014
Type: Movie
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La voyante
Title: La voyante
Character: Isabelle Perrin
Released: September 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Véra Bellini fights with her psychic friends for their gift to be recognized by medicine. But her opponent Doctor Pelletier thoughly resists and will reveal a difficult secret about Vera's life.
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Title: A Woman and The Revolution
Character: Madame de Valbreuse
Released: December 21, 2013
Type: TV
Manon, takes refuge in Paris in 1789. When the people rise up to change the established order and conquer their freedom, Manon's convictions are shaken.
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Title: Les Limiers
Character: Madame Guimard
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: TV
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Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi?
Title: Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi?
Character: la psy
Released: December 19, 2012
Type: Movie
The young years of Michel Drucker.
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Title: Trafics
Character: Hélène Brissan
Released: May 25, 2012
Type: TV
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All Our Desires
Title: All Our Desires
Character: Docteur Hadji
Released: November 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. Under Claire’s influence, Stéphane discovers a new lease of life and at last finds a cause that is worth fighting for...
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Prey
Title: Prey
Character: Marie
Released: July 13, 2011
Type: Movie
One night, several deer hurl themselves unexpectedly against the electric fence of a farm. Seeing deep signs of biting on the animals’ bodies, the farm owners realise that a predator is roaming about the neighbouring woods. Having determined to hunt it down, the farmer and his family penetrate deep into the surrounding forest. They look with bewilderment at the dying environment ravaged by a mysterious evil force. As the sun slowly sinks away, howling resounds through the forest. The hunters have become prey...
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la saison des immortelles
Title: la saison des immortelles
Character: Jeanne Charroux
Released: May 31, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
Character: Madame Monistrol
Released: March 10, 2009
Type: TV
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The Last Mistress
Title: The Last Mistress
Character: L'arrogante
Released: May 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
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Le Piano oublié
Title: Le Piano oublié
Character: Marguerite
Released: April 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Julien is eleven years old and loves music. However, his father wants his son to eventually take over the family printing business. Julien's life changes the moment he discovers a forgotten piano in an old inn.
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Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Title: Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Character: Isabelle Tellier
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
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Imposture
Title: Imposture
Character: Anna
Released: May 25, 2005
Type: Movie
A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that reminds him of his own work as his own.
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Let's Be Friends
Title: Let's Be Friends
Character: Sophie
Released: February 23, 2005
Type: Movie
The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a woman, because both fail equally. While Claude is simply too shy to even start a relationship, let alone meet a woman, Serge is too jumpy to have a relationship. Together they go in search of the great love in all sorts of curious situations, from the self-help group on speed dating to wedding celebrations of strangers - in the hunt for the right woman, they are no way too far.
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Les amants du bagne
Title: Les amants du bagne
Character: Claudia Desfeuilles
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1923, Albert Londres, the famous reporter, travels to the French penal colony in French Guyana. First, officers try to hide the truth, but leaded by his own instinct he begins an investigation alongside the authorities. He didn't expect to find such inhuman conditions. He meets a prisoner, Camille, and his wife, Claudia, who's in French Guyana to find a way to free her husband. He decides to help her.
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La parité
Title: La parité
Character: Pascale Saller
Released: September 17, 2003
Type: Movie
A father who prides himself on being open-minded reacts rather badly when his wife gets involved in politics.
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Monsieur Ibrahim
Title: Monsieur Ibrahim
Character: Momo's Mother
Released: September 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.
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L'enfant de l'aube
Title: L'enfant de l'aube
Character: Madeleine
Released: May 14, 2003
Type: Movie
At the age of 16, Tristan falls in love with Camille in a sanatorium where they are both nursing their asthma. Camille eventually dies, leaving Tristan alone with their son Alexis. The young father is faced with a great responsibility and decides to take matters into his own hands by working and studying literature to write a novel. He falls in love with Gaëlle, his literature teacher.
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Des croix sur la mer
Title: Des croix sur la mer
Character: Françoise
Released: October 13, 2001
Type: Movie
On August 5, 1944, in Brittany, civilians fell into the hands of the German army. Among them, Jean Palu, a man like the others, who looks back on his life. Between failure and illness, he paints a bitter picture of his life.
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The Officers' Ward
Title: The Officers' Ward
Character: Marguerite
Released: September 26, 2001
Type: Movie
The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...
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Vidocq
Title: Vidocq
Character: Marine Lafitte
Released: September 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...
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Murderous Maids
Title: Murderous Maids
Character: Clémence
Released: November 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter. Christine Papin and Léa Papin are sisters with an already troubled past. Madame Lancelin takes them into her home and employs the girls as maids. Christine sees in Madame Lancelin an ideal mother figure — in spite of her severity. But their wretched background — an indifferent mother and drunken abusive father — casts a shadow over the girls and over time their ill-fated situation darkens. The sisters withdraw into themselves and finish by committing the worst — killing Madame Lancelin and her daughter after six years of service, on the 2 February 1933 in Le Mans.
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C'est quoi la vie ?
Title: C'est quoi la vie ?
Character: Maria
Released: September 7, 1999
Type: Movie
In this drama, three generations of the same family work together on a farm in rural France. Elderly Noel takes pride in having worked this land nearly all his life. His son Marc now carries most of the responsibilities of the farm (as well as the debts), and he's starting to buckle under the strain. And Marc's son Nicolas hasn't decided what to do with his life; he has little interest in farming, but he isn't sure where his real talents lie. One day, after helping his cows give birth to new calves, Marc gets word that he must destroy all his cattle to prevent the spread of Mad Cow Disease. This proves the last straw for Marc, and he commits suicide. Noel doesn't handle his son's death well and ends up in a retirement home, while Marc's wife gets a job as a cashier and Nicolas looks for work (with little success) while searching for a beautiful and mysterious woman to whom he gave a ride.
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Title: Brigade spéciale
Character: Commandant Lauren Valmont
Released: June 24, 1999
Type: TV
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Les Montagnes bleues
Title: Les Montagnes bleues
Character: Laure
Released: March 15, 1999
Type: Movie
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The End of an Eternity
Title: The End of an Eternity
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and actors.
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The Barber of Siberia
Title: The Barber of Siberia
Character: Imperatritsa
Released: November 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
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Eternity and a Day
Title: Eternity and a Day
Character: Anna
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
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Ça ne se refuse pas
Title: Ça ne se refuse pas
Character: Marthe
Released: August 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Marthe, an aging queen of the night, roams the streets of a city haunted by the presence of an invisible murderer in search of money to pay a large gambling debt.
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Title: Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Character: Isabelle
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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Title: Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Character: Odette
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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Perfect Love
Title: Perfect Love
Character: Frédérique
Released: October 23, 1996
Type: Movie
A teenage girl helps investigators reconstruct her mother's murder.
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Farinet, Heroes and Outlaw
Title: Farinet, Heroes and Outlaw
Character: Joséphine Pellanda
Released: February 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Back in Saxon after ten years of absence, Farinet discovers that the village is under the yoke of Gaspard de Sepibus, director of the casino and president of the commune. He starts making counterfeit money to pay off his father's debts and help the villagers send their children to school.
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La présence des ombres
Title: La présence des ombres
Character: Madeleine Comte / Soledad
Released: November 17, 1995
Type: Movie
Madeleine, a young nurse, makes a fatal mistake that costs the life of the patient Léopold Sicard. She leaves the hospital after her colleague, Dr. Senez, writes a damning report against her. Some time later, the young psychologist Paul Forest receives at the end of one of his lectures a visit from his childhood friend, Roger, who tells him of his fears about the strange behavior of his wife, who is none other than Madeleine.
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Couchettes express
Title: Couchettes express
Character: Isabelle
Released: August 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Bernard, for protection. He suffers from an unknown illness and he is not alone on the run for scholars who want to use him as a guinea pig, but also for Brandeburg, a trader in human organs.
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Louis, the Child King
Title: Louis, the Child King
Character: Mme de Beauvais
Released: November 4, 1993
Type: Movie
January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of the great ones of the kingdom who lead La Fronde, the agreements and the betrayals of those close to him. He is helped in this by his mother Anne of Austria and by the Cardinal Mazarin.
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Title: Antoine Rives, le juge du terrorisme
Character: Hélène Rives
Released: January 8, 1993
Type: TV
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L'Opération Corned Beef
Title: L'Opération Corned Beef
Character: Lieutenant Isabelle Fourreau, partenaire du Squale
Released: February 6, 1991
Type: Movie
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
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Les Dessous de la passion
Title: Les Dessous de la passion
Character: Axelle
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Title: Les Jupons de la révolution
Character: Charlotte
Released: July 19, 1989
Type: TV
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L'Amoureuse
Title: L'Amoureuse
Character: Irène
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: Movie
A love story. But while the first is in love with the girl, the second boy has just met her and isn't ready to give her up. And the girl in love no longer knows which one to choose. The second is willing to dissappear from her life, to sacrifice himself ; if she accepts to marry him abroad in utmost secrecy...
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Hôtel de France
Title: Hôtel de France
Character: Marie
Released: May 20, 1987
Type: Movie
A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
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Title: Il était une fois dix-neuf acteurs
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: TV
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The Fugitives
Title: The Fugitives
Released: December 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
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Title: Cette nuit-là
Character: Anaïs
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV