Nathalie Richard

Nathalie Richard (born 6 January 1963) is a French actress.

For the rally co-driver, see Nathalie Richard (co-driver). For the Canadian television personality, see Natalie Richard.

Nathalie Richard
Born	(1963-01-06) 6 January 1963 (age 62) Paris, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–present

Life and career

Richard was born in Paris, France. As a child, Nathalie Richard practised dance and ice-skating.^[1] She spent a year in New York with the Karole Armitage company, returning to join the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique^[1] and graduating in 1986. Since then she has worked regularly in both cinema and theatre, her first major role being Viviane in Catherine Corsini's Les Amoureux in 1993.

In 2018, alongside Liza Blanchard she took one of the principal roles in the staging of Anne Théron^{[clarification needed]}, created at the TNS of the play À la trace of Alexandra Badea which explores mother-daughter relations.^[2] The performance, in dialogue with pre-recorded audio-visual projections, was lauded by the press.,^[3] breaking down the barriers between theatre and film.^[4]

She received the Prix Michel Simon film prize for most promising actress/actor for her role in the 1988 Jacques Rivette film Gang of Four.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Window Shopping	La coiffeuse #6
1987	Le Panorama
1988	La bande des quatre	Cécile	Michel-Simon Prize 1989 (for Most Promising Actress)
1989	Winter's Child	Leni
1989	La Jalousie		short
1989	Constance		short
1990	Monsieur	L'hôtesse d'accueil
1990	Les dernières heures du millénaire
1991	Cendrillon 90		short
1991	Bar des rails	Monique, the waitress
1992	Riens du tout	Claire
1992	Interdit d'amour	Mme Brémont	television film
1992	Weep No More, My Lady	Alicia
1992	C'est trop con!	Jeanne	short
1993	Grand bonheur	Charly
1993	Légendes de la forêt viennoise
1993	Le linge sale		short
1994	Les amoureux	Viviane
1994	Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons	Catherine de la Rochelle	Cut version did not include her scene
1994	Comme un dimanche		short
1995	Up, Down, Fragile (Haut bas fragile)	Ninon	third film for Rivette
1995	Le Soleil a promis de se lever demain		short
1995	Lumière and Company (Lumière et compagnie)	Ninon	section directed by Rivette
1996	Irma Vep	Zoé
1996	L'éducatrice	Louise
1996	51 raisons		short
1996	Youth Without God (Jeunesse sans Dieu)
1997	La vie en face	Claire	television film
1997	Eau douce	Marianne
1998	Les Enfants de Scarlett	Kate
1998	Late August, Early September (Fin août, début septembre)	Maryelle
1998	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries	Mademoiselle Fournier
1998	Stolen Life (Voleur de vie)	Yann's wife
1999	Afraid of Everything	Anne
1999	Bruno n'a pas d'agent		short
1999	Le pourboire (ou la pitié)	Béatrice	short
2000	Confusion of Genders (La Confusion des genres)	Laurence Albertini
2000	30 Years	Barbara
2000	Pretend I'm Not Here (Faites comme si je n'étais pas là)	Carole
2000	Modern Comforts (Confort moderne)	Irène
2000	Code Unknown (Code inconnu)	Mathilde
2000	La famille médicament	La mère	short
2001	Imago	Marianne
2001	Mon meilleur amour	Corinne	short
2001	L'hiver sera rude	Solange
2001	They Call This... Spring (On appelle ça... le printemps)	A naiad
2002	Merci Docteur Rey	Radio Interviewer
2002	Froid comme l'été	Claire	television film
2002	Nearest to Heaven (Au plus près du paradis)	Brigitte
2002	Novo	Sabine
2002	Étrangère	La serveuse
2002	Maintenant	Else	short
2003	Les visages		short
2003	Le Divorce	Charlotte de Persand
2003	La chaîne du froid	Client	short
2003	Le ventre de Juliette	Fafa
2005	The Passenger	Suzanne
2005	Belhorizon	Isabelle
2005	Zim and Co.	Zim's mother
2005	Caché	Mathilde
2005	Les enfants	Hélène
2006	Le Pressentiment	Gabrielle Charmes-Aicquart
2007	Parc	Hélène Clou
2008	Le Plaisir de chant	Noémie
2009	Une petite zone de turbulences	Psychiatrist
2010	Never Let Me Go	Madame
2012	Les Fraises des bois	The mother of Violette
2013	Jeune and Jolie	Véronique
2013	Violette	Hermine
2015	The Great Game (Le Grand Jeu)	Pauline
2017	Ma vie avec James Dean	Sylvia van den Rood	third film for Choisy
2017	Les Garçons sauvages	Teacher
2017	Happy End	Estate agent	third film for Haneke
2020	After Love	Geneviève
2022	Neneh Superstar	Jeanne-Marie Meursault
2023	She Is Conann	Conann (Age 55)
2023	Doppelgänger	Helga Steiner
2023	A Place to Fight For (Une zone à défendre)	Séverine
2023	The Animal Kingdom	Professor Valérie Beaudoin

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Scénario sur la drogue	La mère	"Famille médicament, La"
2005	3 femmes... un soir d'été	Isabelle
2022	Irma Vep	Ondine	Episode 3 'Dead Man's Escape' (fourth film for Assayas)