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Claude Jade was born as daughter of a protestant university-couple and visited during her childhood and her study (philosophy) the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Dijon. Claude won the Prize as best actress (Agnès in Molières "L`école des femmes") and moved to Paris. She worked at the theatre with Jean-Laurent Cochet and has been engaged by Sacha Pitoëff to the Théatre Moderne (as Frida in Luigi Pirandello`s "Henri IV"). Claude was discovered on stage by Francois Truffaut and she played the female heroine in "Baisers volés" (1968). The part of Christine beside Jean-Pierre Léaud as her lover and husband Antoine Doinel she played also in the sequels "Domicile conjugal" (1970) and "Amour en fuite, L`" (1979). Truffaut proposed to her in spring 1968, but later she married the diplomat Bernard Coste, with whom she also lived some years in Russia making a short Soviet career. Claude Jade worked with famous directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Edouard Molinaro and Jean-Pierre Mocky. She also played on stage and in many TV-Films. Her most popular part was Véronique d`Hergemont in "Île aux trente cercueils, L`" (1979). Since 1998 she is a female "Chevalier de la legion d`honneur".
Biography Credit: www.imdb.com/name/nm0415283/bio
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