Bulle Ogier (born Marie-France Thielland on 9 August 1939) is a French actress. 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.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 (The Discreet Charm of the 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.
[on the walking scenes in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)] Whoever walked fastest got the close-up, they'd get to the camera first. Everyone went very fast, because all actors love close-ups.
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Her inspiration to become an actress largely came from seeing Gérard Philipe acting on the stage.
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She was nominated for the 2014 Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Les Fausses Confidences".
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Was close friends with Bernadette Lafont. They worked 8 times together.
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She won the 2011 Molière award for Best Supporting Actress for her stage performance in "Rêve d'Automne".
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She once asked Jacques Rivette if he could direct a sequel to Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Third Generation (1979) focusing on her character (Hilde Krieger) after her release from prison. Although the movie was never made, this became the premise for Rivette's Le Pont du Nord (1981), which starts with Bulle's character leaving jail after serving a one year sentence.
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She declined a supporting role in The Nun (1966) because of a stage commitment.
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She used to work at Chanel: her mansions were to entertain clients, put perfume on the stairs and carry on other manual jobs. That's where she met writer and director Marc'o, who cast her in several of his stage productions and in his musical film Les idoles (1968), where she played her first leading role.
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She was nominated for the 2008 Molière award for Best Supporting Actress for her stage performance in "L'Homme sans but".
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