

Acting
Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career. Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire and made her debut at the Palais Garnier in the title role of Salammbô by Ernest...
Highest rated appearances
as Madame Pauline

3000 Million Without an Elevator
as Madame Dubreuil

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
as Louise de Kerfuntel

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'

The 25th Hour
as Mme Nagy (uncredited)

L'Âge heureux
as Mme Aubry

Cloportes
as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia

Up from the Beach
as Lili's Grandmother

Ruy Blas
as La duchesse d'Albuquerque

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
as Borgia

Frau Cheneys Ende
as Mrs. Webley

The Counterfeiters of Paris
as Madame Pauline

The Full Treatment
as Madame Prade

Stefanie in Rio
as Leonora Guala

Lovers Woods
as Madame Parisot

Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
as Madame Alexandra

Without Trumpet or Drum
as La grand-mère de Marguerite

Eyes of Love
as Mrs. Montcatel mother

Riff Raff Girls
as Berthe

The Sound and the Fury
as Caroline Compson

The Gambler
as Aunt Antonia

Me and the Colonel
as Madame Bouffier

Non sono più guaglione
as Vincenzino's mother

Interlude
as Comtesse Reinhart

The Seventh Sin
as Mother Superior

Girls of Today
as padrona della pensione

That Lady
as Bernardine

Queen Margot
as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
Les éloquents
as Self

Sul ponte dei sospiri
as Lady of Sant'Agata

He Who Is Without Sin...
as La contessa Lamieri

Wanda the Sinner
as Anna Steiner

Smuggler's Ball
as Gabrielle Demeuse

The Seven Deadly Sins
as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")

Nobody's Children
as La contessa Canali

The Red Inn
as Marie Martin

K – Das Haus des Schweigens
as Noemi, die Amme

The 13th Letter
as Mrs. Gauthier

The Naked Heart
as Laura Chapdelaine

September Affair
as Maria Salvatini

One Only Loves Once
as Mme Monnier

Women Without Names
as The Countess

The Barton Mystery
as Élisabeth

The Dream Vagabonds
as Mireille Dombreval

Quartet
as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")

Saraband for Dead Lovers
as The Electress Sophia

La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
as Countess Brévannes

Back Streets of Paris
as Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady

Johnny Frenchman
as Lanec Florrie

The Halfway House
as Alice Meadows

Portrait of a Woman
as Fanny Helder

They Were Twelve Women
as La duchesse de Vimeuse

Serge Panine
as Madame Devarenne

Fahrendes Volk
as Madame Flora

The Chess Player
as Catherine II

Peace on the Rhine
as Francoise Scheffer

The Stream
as Régina Berry

People Who Travel
as Flora

Ramuntcho
as Dolorès Detcharry

Bizarre, Bizarre
as Margaret Molyneux

Life Dances On
as Marguerite Audié
My Son the Minister
as Sylvie - seine Mutter

The Robber Symphony
as The fortune teller

Armchair 47
as Gilberte Boulanger

Jenny
as Jenny Gauthier
The Last Four on Santa Cruz
as Nadja Danouw

The Secret of Polichinelle
as Mrs. Jouvenel

Carnival in Flanders
as Cornelia

Carnival in Flanders
as Madame Burgomaster

Marie des angoisses
as Mme de Quersac

Gangster malgré lui
Maternité
as Mrs. Duchemin

Whirlpool
as Madame Gardane

Pension Mimosas
as Louise Noblet

Le Billet de mille
as Russian Countess

Marchand d'amour
as Clara

The Island
as Silvia

Vers l'abîme
as Sylvia

Coralie and Company

The Great Game
as Blanche
Tambour battant
as The Princess Mother

Abbot Constantine
as La comtesse de Laverdens

All for Nothing
as Mrs. Bossu

La Pouponnière
as Mrs. Delannoy

The Woman Dressed As a Man
as Princess Marie
A Father Without Knowing It
as Madame Jacquet

He
as Madame Husson
Luck
as Mme Mougeot

The Trial of Mary Dugan
as La veuve

Casanova Against His Will
as Blanche Brissac

Jenny Lind
as Rosatti

The Magnificent Lie
as Rosa Duchêne

Buster se marie
as Polly Hathaway
Let Us Be Gay
as Madame Boucijon

The Little Cafe
as Mademoiselle Edwige
Échec au roi
as The Queen

Si l'empereur savait ça
as Princess Plata d'Ettingen

Marius à Paris