Lilyan Chauvin
Biography
Lilyan Chauvin was a French-American actress, director, writer and acting teacher. A Paris native, she started out in French radio and English theater, then moved to the United States in 1952. Her training included work with Uta Hagen and the Actors Studio, and she coached performers in accents. On screen she mostly played supporting roles, appearing in Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), Predator 2 (1990), Universal Soldier (1992), and The Man Who Wasn't There (2001). She also acted in Funny Lady (1975) and The Other Side of Midnight (1977), and guest-starred on The X-Files, Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Friends, and Ugly Betty. Chauvin received two Emmy nominations and won a 1991 Angel Award for Hollywood Structured, which she co-produced and hosted. She had directing credits with the Directors Guild of America and later taught acting and directing at UCLA and USC. She died in 2008.
82years old at death
- Born 14th arrondissement of Paris
- Died Studio City
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Liliane Zemoz (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 20
- Career span
- 50 years1957 to 2007
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Languages
Chauvin trained at the Actors Studio in New York and with Uta Hagen. She also went to the Berlitz school of Languages, and since she already knew Spanish, German, Italian and Russian well, it soon made her a top teacher who was sent to coach actors in accents for roles.
First role
Chauvin's first motion picture appearance came in Lost, Lonely and Vicious in 1958, after she had already made her film acting debut in a 1953 episode of Studio One.
Behind the camera
Chauvin was the creator and show runner of Hollywood Structured, a television series she co-produced and hosted. Its 64 episodes were a guide to show business careers, exploring the industry through interviews with top professionals.
Early training
Chauvin taught acting and directing at USC for over 10 years and at UCLA for two, and her students included Raquel Welch, Suzanne Somers and Kevin Nealon.
A change of course
Chauvin also worked with still images. She photographed the author William Faulkner, and the picture appeared in The Atlantic Monthly magazine and was intended for the dust jackets of Faulkner books.
Lilyan Chauvin movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
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Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Lilyan Chauvin's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$245 million
7 of the 20 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 20 films: 7 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 10 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 10Figure not found
Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$119M48.6% of the total
- 2$57M23.3% of the total
- 3$40M16.3% of the total
- 4$19M7.7% of the total
- 5$5.0M2.0% of the total
- 6$2.5M1.0% of the total
- 7$2.5M1.0% of the total
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