Françoise Vatel was a French actress.

Françoise Vatel began her film career at the age of 16 in Jean Gourguet's Les Premiers outrages, and she worked with the director again in Les promesses dangeureuses, La Putain sentimentale, and Les frangines. She worked then in the theatre, playing for several years in Claude Magnier's Oscar. She appeared also in films of the Nouvelle Vague, in Luc Moullet

Luc Moullet

Luc Moullet is a French film critic and filmmaker, and a member of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave. Moullet's films are known for their humor, anti-authoritarian leanings and rigorously primitive aesthetic, which is heavily influenced by his love of American B-movies.Though such influential...

's Brigitte et Brigitte

Brigitte et Brigitte

Brigitte et Brigitte is a 1966 French feature-length film written and directed by Cahiers du cinéma film critic Luc Moullet. Moullet's debut film, Brigitte et Brigitte was praised upon release by one-time colleague Jean-Luc Godard as being a "revolutionary film."...

and Les Contrebandières

Les Contrebandières

Les Contrebandières, known in English as The Smugglers, is a 1967 film by French director Luc Moullet; it was his second feature film....

and Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...

s Les Cousins

Les Cousins (film)

Les Cousins is a 1959 French New Wave drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. It tells the story of two cousins, the decadent Paul and the naive Charles. Charles falls in love with Florence, one of Paul's friends...

among others.

Selected filmography

• Les Bons Vivants
  Les Bons Vivants
  Les Bons Vivants , is a French comedy film from 1965, directed by Gilles Grangier, written by Michel Audiard and Albert Kantof, starring Louis de Funès...
  
  (1965)