Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
12/5/1914
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Odette Joyeux
Biography
Odette Joyeux (5 December 1914 – 26 August 2000) was a French actress, playwright and novelist.
She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage. Joyeux started her film career in 1931. Her first notable film was Marc Allégret's Entrée des artistes (1938). During the 1940s she established herself as one of France's most popular cinema actresses; however, she made few film appearances after the 1950s.
Joyeux is the author of some plays and essays on dance as well as a book on the life of inventor Nicéphore Niépce. She also wrote two novels aimed...
Known For
La Ronde
as Anna, la grisette
The Marriage of Chiffon
as Corysande 'Chiffon'
If Paris Were Told to Us
as La Passementière
Douce
as Douce
Sylvia and the Ghost
as Sylvie
Hélène
as Françoise
The Curtain Rises
as Cécilia Prieur
Messieurs Ludovic
as Anne-Marie Vermeulen
Ladies Lake
as Carla Lyssenhop
Last Hour, Special Edition
as Andrée Coche
Scandal
as Cécilia
Youth in Revolt
as Zizi
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
as Rosine Grimaud
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
as Micheline
La Glu
as Naïk
The Phantom Baron
as Elfy
The Four-Poster Bed
as Marie-Doree
Une femme a menti
Unknown Role
Notre-Dame de la Mouise
Unknown Role
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
as Self