Nathalie Baye
Date of birth: 1948-07-06
Place of birth: Mainneville, Eure, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 나탈리 베이, Натали Бей, Натали Бай, ナタリー・バイ, Natalie Baye
Biography
Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye (born 6 July 1948) is a French film, television, and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. A ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for Every Man for Himself (1980), Strange Affair (1981), La Balance (1982), and The Young Lieutenant (2005). Her other films include Day for Night (1973), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Tell No One (2006), and The Assistant (2015). In 2009, she was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Baye was born in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy to Claude Baye and Denise Coustet, two painters. At 14, she joined a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States. On returning to France, she continued with dance but also registered for the Simon Course and was admitted to the Conservatoire, from where she graduated in 1972 with a second prize in comedy, dramatic comedy, and foreign theatre. Her second cinema appearance was in Two People (1973), directed by Robert Wise. She became better known as the script girl in Day for Night (La Nuit américaine, 1973) by François Truffaut. Throughout the 1970s, she played the good girlfriend or nice provincial girl in film and television. She won her first César, as best supporting artist, for Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie), 1980) directed by Jean-Luc Godard. There then followed The Return of Martin Guerre (Le Retour de Martin Guerre, 1982) and La Balance (also 1982). Baye won two more César Awards, Best Supporting Actress, for Strange Affair (Une étrange affaire, 1981), and Best Actress for La Balance, 1982). Her four-year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a celebrity couple and their daughter is Laura Smet, now an actress. After changing her image by playing a streetwalker in La Balance, she widened her scope with more obscure characters in J'ai épousé une ombre (1983) and En toute innocence (1988). In 1986, she returned to the theatre with an interpretation of Adriana Monti. In 1999, she was voted Best Supporting Actress at Venice Film Festival for Une liaison pornographique and starred in Vénus Beauté (Institut) (2000) by Tonie Marshall which won multiple César Awards including Best Film. She has worked with Claude Chabrol and Steven Spielberg. Source: Article "Nathalie Baye" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Movie Credits
The Man Who Loved Women
1977-04-27
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas
Catch Me If You Can
2002-12-16
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of
Day for Night
1973-05-24
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises,
The Last Woman
1976-04-20
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he t
And the Band Played On
1993-09-11
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific commu
I Married a Shadow
1983-02-16
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train
The Flower of Evil
2003-02-09
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run
The Return of Martin Guerre
1982-05-14
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B
Thomas
2018-06-23
The Green Room
1978-04-05
A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, h
Sous le soleil de Pialat
2021-10-18
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César
2022-02-23
Strange Affair
1981-12-23
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterio
The Young Lieutenant
2005-08-31
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide burea
The Price to Pay
2007-04-04
Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interest
Venus Beauty Institute
1999-02-03
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train sta
Beau Pere
1981-09-15
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car acc
Michou d'Auber
2007-02-28
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and
Tomorrow's Another Day
2000-11-15
A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.
A French Gigolo
2008-10-08
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual exci
Paparazzi
1998-04-29
Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014-12-13
Solemn Communion
1977-04-27
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three ge
Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste
2023-04-01
Stage actress turned film actress and director, Nicole Garcia has worked with the greatest French di
France Boutique
2003-10-29
Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and m
Feelings
2003-09-01
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
An Affair of Love
1999-09-04
A man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.
The Red Shade
1981-10-28
The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communi
Beautiful Lies
2010-12-08
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
A Week's Vacation
1980-06-02
On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure o
Detective
1985-08-23
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the consid
Rat Race
1980-04-22
Young dynamic executive, married and father of two children, Jérôme Ozendron dreams of writing and e
Face
2009-10-02
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that
Fill 'er Up with Super
1976-04-07
When a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive a big Ame
Together Is Too Much
2010-02-17
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during
Absolutely Fabulous
2001-08-29
Middle-aged best friends Eddie and Patsy live in an endless haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. Th
Barnie's Minor Annoyances
2001-02-21
Barnie lives in Calais but works in London. Everyday, he takes the Eurostar to go to his office. Alt
The Mouth Agape
1974-05-08
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her phila
To Mathieu
2000-09-06
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When hi
The Slap
1974-10-23
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of schoo
My Son
2006-03-07
Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growi
One Stays, the Other Leaves
2005-01-12
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and,
Our Story
1984-05-23
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emp
C'est La Vie
1990-02-14
A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoyin
Off and Running
2008-04-16
A missed highway exit leads Darry Marzouki, an unemployed magician, to cross paths with Irène Montie
Enfants de salaud
1996-04-03
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American a
La Californie
2006-05-26
Mirko and Stefan, Serbian refugees, move to the French Riviera. There they meet Maguy who lives in a
I've Been Waiting So Long
2004-03-10
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mot
Small World
2010-12-16
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has th
La Balance
1982-11-10
A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an infor
Honeymoon
1985-11-20
A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently
Laurence Anyways
2012-05-18
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence wh
L'Inconnu
1973-12-11
The descent into hell begins for Edouard, a disillusioned marginal, when he loses his job, and his w
Every Man for Himself
1980-10-12
A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfrie
Marie-Octobre
2008-10-15
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again dur
Mensonge
1993-05-26
Emma has been happily married to Charles, a hardworking journalist, for over ten years. They have a
Queens of the Ring
2013-07-02
More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old so
Mother Valley
2023-06-14
In 1958, while revolution is rumbling in Beirut, three sisters spend their holidays in an isolated v
Beware of My Love
1998-09-02
Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train -
The Machine
1994-05-28
This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone
Alibi.com 2
2023-01-07
After closing his agency Alibi.com and promising Flo that he would never lie to her again, Greg's ne
Every Other Weekend
1990-08-28
Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's
Rive droite, rive gauche
1984-10-30
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded busines
Godard by Godard
2023-05-17
Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard
No Harm Intended
1988-02-03
When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leav
Soirée Pyjama
2019-01-09
To celebrate 2019, Barthès & Dedienne are hosting a sleepover with some friends.
The Honeymoon Trip
1976-04-21
Paul and Sarah form a happy couple with no problems. But when Sarah sees Paul wrapped in the arms of
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972-01-12
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother,
Engagements of the Heart
1987-12-16
Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Aust
Lou!
2014-10-08
Lou, a creative and dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother in an orange building with
Beethoven's Nephew
1985-09-18
The plot centers around old Beethoven's fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a
SK1
2015-01-07
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016-09-20
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider a
Tell No One
2006-11-01
A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As
It's Only the End of the World
2016-09-21
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dyin
Un jour, la fête
1975-02-19
Michel returns from a trip. He meets up with his friends from the H.L.M. housing estate. Together, t
Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022-01-14
Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from
Monsieur Papa
1977-08-23
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend
Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous
1975-10-11
The Assistant
2015-09-02
With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process,
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child
1996-01-01
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from
Godard Cinema
2023-06-05
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François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
1996-01-01
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
2022-12-24
The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evas
Short Memory
1982-03-03
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis a
Préjudice
2015-10-07
A challenging psychological drama where the carefully nurtured harmony of a family is shattered one
The Man Inside
1990-10-26
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard
Les contes sauvages
1993-02-03
A tribute to Frédéric Rossif, the most legendary animal director in cinema, a long animal poem, a wa
Alibi.com
2017-02-15
Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin
Moka
2016-08-17
Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her s
The Guardians
2017-12-06
In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by the
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
2004-10-01
A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborato
Médée
2017-04-17
A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given.
Hitler in Hollywood
2011-05-04
A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth abo
Food of Love
1997-10-19
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
God's Offices
2008-11-05
A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant wo
Mon premier amour
1978-08-30
This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979-04-10
Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors, Jacques
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993-05-14
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors an
The Great Restaurant
2010-02-20
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.
My Best Part
2020-10-28
Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and retu
Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
1996-02-10
Massacre Play
1989-01-01
Estranged childhood friends, both passionate filmmakers, find themselves on divergent paths: one an
Haute Couture
2021-11-10
Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, sh
Mado
1976-10-27
A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous of
Him
2021-10-27
Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany
Bon vent Claude Goretta
2011-08-12
Claude Goretta directed “L'invitation” in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like
Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
1981-02-03
A televisual journey guided by Jean-Luc Godard inside his film Sauve qui peut (la vie), incorporatin
Acteur
2007-03-16
A look at the world of acting: is it possible to go from the shadows to the limelight without losing
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022-04-27
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowa
The Voice
1992-09-14
The tale of two lovers spending time in Rome when, suddenly, in a restaurant, the man believes he re
Conversation avec Nathalie Baye
2021-05-27
La provinciale
1981-01-21
When Christine, young and out of work, arrives in Paris without money, a job or support, vulnerable
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002-05-20
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same
Madame Sourdis
1979-12-31
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024-09-04
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked
Sauve la vie (qui peut)
1981-02-01
Godard experimental film with montages combining "Sauve qui peut (la vie)" and other films by other
From Time to Time
1992-04-12
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Jacques Villeret, drôlement tragique
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