Hélène Vincent

Hélène Vincent is a French actress and stage director who has long put the stage ahead of her screen work, acting under directors such as Patrice Chéreau and Bernard Sobel and directing plays by Strindberg, Ibsen, and Shakespeare. Television has given her a substantial body of work, whereas her cinema appearances have been less regular. After two early roles for René Allio, she was cast by Étienne Chatiliez as Marielle Le Quesnois in Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988), the part that made her name and won her a César Award the following year. A second César nomination followed for her Evelyne in André Téchiné's I Don't Kiss (1991), and she drew notice as Albert Dupontel's unworthy mother in Bernie (1996). Another of her notable later parts was the manipulative mother in Chris Vander Stappen's Family Pack (2000).