Françoise Lebrun is a French actress. She has appeared in many movies, and is especially known for her role as Veronika in The Mother and the Whore

The Mother and the Whore

The Mother and the Whore is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache. Examing the relationship between three characters in a love triangle, it was Eustache's first feature film and is considered his masterpiece.-Plot:...

(1973, directed by Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.In his obituary for Eustache, the influential...

). She also worked for, amongst others, Paul Vecchiali

Paul Vecchiali

Paul Vecchiali is a French author and filmmaker.-Biography:He spent his childhood in Toulon. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war....

, Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director.-Background:...

 and Lucas Belvaux

Lucas Belvaux

Lucas Belvaux is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the Trilogie, consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre. The three films are Cavale, a thriller; Un couple épatant, a comedy; and Après la vie,...

, and is the subject of the documentary Françoise Lebrun, les voies singulières (2008). In a Variety

Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...

review of the 2004 Vecchiali film A Vot' Bon Coeur, Lisa Nesselson called her "a supreme master of the sustained monologue."

External links

• Françoise Lebrun, les voies singulières on IMDB.