Bulle Ogier

Bulle Ogier (born Marie-France Thielland; 9 August 1939) is a French actress and screenwriter.

Bulle Ogier
Ogier in 2008
Born	Marie-France Thielland (1939-08-09) 9 August 1939 (age 86) Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Occupations	Actress screenwriter
Spouse	Barbet Schroeder

Career

She adopted the professional surname Ogier, which was her mother's maiden name. Her first appearance on screen was in Voilà l'Ordre, a short film directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc.^[1]

She worked with Jacques Rivette (L'amour fou, Céline et Julie vont en bateau, Duelle, Le Pont du Nord, La Bande des Quatre), Luis Buñuel (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie), Alain Tanner (La Salamandre), René Allio, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Paul Civeyrac (All the Fine Promises Prix Jean Vigo), Marguerite Duras, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Barbet Schroeder, and others.^[1]

Ogier was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1972.^[2]

Personal life

She had a daughter, Pascale (1958–1984), born of a relationship with the musician Gilles Nicolas, from whom she separated when their daughter was two years old.^[3] Pascale adopted her mother's professional surname "Ogier" and was also an actress.

Ogier is married to producer and director Barbet Schroeder.^[4]

Selected filmography

Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier, and Marie Dubois in 1972

• L'Amour fou (1969, by Jacques Rivette) – Claire
• Paulina s'en va (1969, by André Téchiné) - Paulina
• Les Stances à Sophie (Sophie's Ways) (1970, by Moshé Mizrahi)
• Out 1 : Noli me tangere (1971, by Jacques Rivette) – Pauline/Emilie
• Rendez-vous a Bray (1971, by André Delvaux) – Odile
• La Salamandre (1971, by Alain Tanner)
• Out 1 : Spectre (1971, by Jacques Rivette) – Pauline/Emilie
• La Vallée (1972, by Barbet Schroeder) – Vivian
• Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972, by Luis Buñuel)
• Io e lui (1973, by Luciano Salce) – Irene
• La Paloma [fr] (1974, by Daniel Schmid) – La mère d'Isidore
• Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974, by Jacques Rivette) – Camille
• A Happy Divorce (1975, by Henning Carlsen) – Marguerite
• Maîtresse (1975, by Barbet Schroeder) – Ariane
• Duelle (1976, by Jacques Rivette) – Viva
• Surreal Estate (1976, by Eduardo de Gregorio) - Ariane
• The Third Generation (1979, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder) – Hilde Krieger
• Le Pont du Nord (1981, by Jacques Rivette) – Marie
• Aspern (1984, by Eduardo de Gregorio) – Mlle Tita
• Cheaters (Tricheurs) (1984, by Barbet Schroeder) – Suzie
• Mon cas (1986, by Manoel de Oliveira) – Actrice n° 1
• Candy Mountain (1987, by Robert Frank) – Cornelia
• The Distant Land (1987, by Luc Bondy) – Genia
• Gang of Four (1988, by Jacques Rivette) – Constance
• Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995, by Xavier Beauvois) – Benoît's mother
• Le Fils de Gascogne (1995, by Pascal Aubier)
• Irma Vep (1995, by Olivier Assayas) – Mireille
• The Color of Lies (1998, by Claude Chabrol) – Yveline Bordier
• Somewhere in the City (1998, by Ramin Niami) – Brigitte
• Venus Beauty Institute (Vénus beauté (institut)) (1998, by Tonie Marshall) – Madame Nadine
• Shattered Image (1998, by Raoul Ruiz) – Mrs. Ford
• Stolen Life (1998, by Yves Angelo) – The woman in cemetery
• The Color of Lies (1999, by Claude Chabrol) – Évelyne Bordier
• Confusion of Genders (2000, by Ilan Duran Cohen) – Mère de Laurence
• Deux (2001, by Werner Schroeter) – Anna
• All the Fine Promises (2002, by Jean-Paul Civeyrac) – Béatrice
• Merci Docteur Rey (2002, by Andrew Litvack) – Claude Sabrié
• Seaside (2002, by Julie Lopes-Curval) – Rose
• Good Girl (2005)
• Belle Toujours (2006, by Manoel de Oliveira)
• The Duchess of Langeais (2007, by Jacques Rivette) – Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry
• Let's Dance (Faut que ça danse!) (2007) – Geneviève Bellinsky
• Passe-passe (2008, by Tonie Marshall) – Madeleine
• Wandering Streams (2010) – Lucie
• Chantrapas (2010) – Catherine
• Boomerang (2015, by François Favrat) – Blanche Rey
• Encore heureux (2016, by Benoît Graffin) – Louise
• Capitaine Marleau (2016, by Josée Dayan) – Katel Meyer (1 Episode)
• Wonders in the Suburbs (2019, by Jeanne Balibar) – Delphine Souriceau
• Both Sides of the Blade (2022, by Claire Denis) – Nelly

Bibliography

• J'ai oublié, Paris, Seuil, 2019 ISBN 978-2-02-141722-7

Honours and distinctions

• 1994: Officière of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2009: Officière of the Legion of Honour^[5]
• 2021: Commandeure of the Ordre national du Mérite^[6]