Lyne Chardonnet
Known For
Acting
Born
1943-05-05 in Paris, France
Died
1980-12-11
Biography
One could have thought Lyne Chardonnet had been blessed by the gods and would live a long successful happy life. For she really had everything to make it. A wasp-waisted blond-haired girl of radiant beauty, with a good drama training, she should have become a movie star and she would have been one if she had been born twenty years before, that is before the French New Wave set new standards, when ingénues like her were still in demand. Well, she WAS given one or two parts which gave her the opportunity to shine, such as the Jacotte she nicely portrayed in Michel Deville's elegant 'Benjamin' alongside Pierre Clémenti as virgin Benjamin and Michel Piccoli as his mentor (1967), or tragic Marie Vetsera's younger sister in Terence Young's version of 'Mayerling' (1968). However, despite this encouraging debut, roles soon dwindled to next to nothing: a few brief appearances as a blond hostess, a blond secretary or even as a (blond?) nun! Lyne Chardonnet sure deserved better. She had born in Paris in the last years of World War II to a fakir, Léopold Chardonnet, and his wife, Ellen Shapiro, of Irish origin. At the age of five, Lyne was already taking dancing lessons.
Most Known For
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
as Catherine
At Theatre Tonight
as Lyne Chardonnet
At Theatre Tonight
as Eva
Les Jeux de 20 heures
as Self
Mayerling
as Hannah Vetsera
The Tattoo
as Valérie Mézeray
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
as Rena Jonasson
Un curé de choc
as La trafiquante
The Toy
as Miss Blond
Claudine
as Valentine Chassenet
Three Men to Kill
as L'infirmière au dossier
Les coucous
as Barbara
Das Blaue Palais
as Yvonne (Ep. 1-3)
Les Sept de l'escalier 15
as Sophie Blouin
Clerambard
as Brigitte Galuchon
Chanel Solitaire
as Young Nun
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
as Jacotte
The War Is Over
as The Pretty Blonde (uncredited)
Dracula and Son
as infirmière
Les Hommes de Rose
as Josette