Marie Pillet

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RECENT CREDITS

2 Days in Paris (FILM) Aug. 10, 2007

My Best Friend (FILM) Jul. 13, 2007

Before Sunset (FILM) Jul. 2, 2004

Ridicule (FILM) Nov. 29, 1996

Golden Eighties (FILM) Apr. 17, 1992

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The mother of Euro screen icon Julie Delpy, Gallic actress Marie Pillet maintained a lower profile than her daughter (and thus never achieved Delpy's international crossover fame), but racked up a significant number of French supporting credits from the 1970s onward, and thus achieved some recognition and audience identification in her native country. For the most part, Pillet (unlike, say, Marie-France Pisier or Catherine Deneuve) seldom worked with top-tiered directors such as Truffaut and Chabrol, and instead collaborated with filmmakers whose fame was limited to France -- such as Claude Zidi, Jean-Loup Hubert, and Roger Planchon. Early credits included the 1977 L'Animal (as a trapeze artist), the 1979 La Dérobade (as a young woman sadistically abused by a pimp), and the 1988 Dandin (as a sorceress). Pillet accompanied her daughter onscreen with a bit role in Richard Linklater's Before Sunset (2004). Two years later, she joined the cast of Patrice Leconte's My Best Friend (2006), a comedy about a cutthroat businessman (Daniel Auteuil) who finds himself on the giving end of a decidedly odd wager. Pillet scored her highest role up through that time -- as Anna -- in Delpy's directorial debut, the romantic comedy 2 Days in Paris (2007).

~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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