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Catherine Lachens(1945-2023)

  • Actress
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Alain Delon and Catherine Lachens in The Medic (1979)
For recent retiree Caroline, a new life of freedom and opportunity lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and most of all, to finally take care of herself. But while her peers at the local seniors’ club pass the time with ceramics and amateur theater, she finds a new hobby of her own between the sheets with the center’s computer teacher Julien, a carefree ladies man decades her junior. The couple set rules for their affair, but Caroline seems to like courting danger, taking her lover to places she knows they might be seen and telling lies to her husband that could easily be discovered. As Caroline finds herself in the midst a second youth – taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her – will her retirement mark the beginning of the end for her marriage, or a new beginning?
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Catherine Lachens was born on 2 September 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress, known for Swann in Love (1984), The Prize of Peril (1983) and Cop or Hood (1979). She died on 27 September 2023 in Paris, France.
BornSeptember 2, 1945
DiedSeptember 27, 2023(78)
BornSeptember 2, 1945
DiedSeptember 27, 2023(78)
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Known for

Jeremy Irons, Alain Delon, and Ornella Muti in Swann in Love (1984)
Swann in Love
6.5
  • Aunt
  • 1984
The Prize of Peril (1983)
The Prize of Peril
6.8
  • Madelaine
  • 1983
Cop or Hood (1979)
Cop or Hood
6.5
  • Simone Langlois
  • 1979
Le fleuve rouge
TV Movie
  • Hella
  • La femme à la cape
  • Maria Petrovna
  • 1981

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Actress

  • Molière's Last Stage (2024)
    Molière's Last Stage
    4.8
    • La Marquise de Sablé
    • 2024
  • Franck Dubosc and Gérard Lanvin in French Cuisine (2015)
    French Cuisine
    4.5
    • Maman François
    • 2015
  • Frédéric Bouraly, Marion Game, Gérard Hernandez, Valérie Karsenti, Loup-Denis Elion, and Audrey Lamy in Scènes de ménages (2009)
    Scènes de ménages
    6.2
    TV Series
    • Evelyne
    • 2015
  • Fanny Ardant and Laurent Lafitte in Bright Days Ahead (2013)
    Bright Days Ahead
    6.3
    • Sylviane
    • 2013
  • Bonjour madame, bonjour monsieur (2012)
    Bonjour madame, bonjour monsieur
    Short
    • Voisine
    • 2012
  • Les liqueurs d'Alice (2009)
    Les liqueurs d'Alice
    Short
    • 2009
  • Absence (2007)
    Absence
    8.6
    Short
    • The Mother
    • 2007
  • Mélanie Bernier, Maria de Medeiros, Brigitte Roüan, and Maëva Pasquali in Venus and Apollo (2005)
    Venus and Apollo
    6.9
    TV Series
    • 2005
  • Adeline Blondieau, Bénédicte Delmas, and Tonya Kinzinger in Sous le soleil (1996)
    Sous le soleil
    5.4
    TV Series
    • Jacqueline
    • Madame Lépine
    • 2005
  • France truc (2004)
    France truc
    6.8
    TV Series
    • 2004–2006
  • À vot' bon coeur (2004)
    À vot' bon coeur
    6.2
    • Madame Bisance
    • 2004
  • Julien Baumgartner in One Fine Day, a Hairdresser (2004)
    One Fine Day, a Hairdresser
    7.2
    Short
    • La cliente du salon
    • 2004
  • Arzak Rhapsody (2003)
    Arzak Rhapsody
    7.1
    TV Mini Series
    • (voice)
    • 2003
  • Confessions de minuit
    Short
    • 2003
  • Dernière séance
    Short
    • Marick
    • 2001

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  • Born
    • September 2, 1945
    • Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
  • Died
    • September 27, 2023
    • Paris, France(cancer)

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