Aurore Clément

Aurore Clément has built a screen career spanning more than five decades in French and English language film and television. Born in Soissons, she modeled in Paris before appearing in Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien (1974), the start of many roles. With over 80 film credits, she is strongly associated with Anne in Paris, Texas (1984), which earned the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Her first U.S. movie was Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), where she appeared in a French colonist sequence that was left out of the original cut and reinstated for the 2001 Redux version. On stage she debuted in 1988 in The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, based on a George Moore short story, taking an acting prize from the French theater critics' association. Later theater included Les Eaux et Forêts, and she picked up a Molière Award nomination for La Dame aux Camélias.