Most Beautiful French Actress

Catherine Deneuve, hands down.

How does Nicole François Dreyfus become Anouk Aimee? Stage name? Numerology?

Anyway, this is the most beautiful french actress

Léa Seydoux.

Lea Seydoux looks like a rat.

R4 Fuck off!

Deneuve. No one else is close.

R2 From IMDB:

Adopted her stage name "Anouk" after playing a character of that name in her debut film, Henri Calef's La maison sous la mer, in 1946. The name "Aimée" was given to her by the screenwriter-poet Jacques Prévert, who penned La fleur de l'âge (1947), in which she starred.

Michele Morgan

Carole Bouquet

I just find Anouk's enigmatic beauty to be more resonant and poetic than a Deneuve, who is symmetrically perfect but sterile in comparison. Anouk has a very "French" thing about her look. The dramatic cheekbones, intense eyes... Plus, at 87, she looks very well preserved, compared to the puffy Deneuve at 75.

isabelle

Deneuve

Anouk is much more interesting to look at, Deneuve comes off as a Barbie in comparison.

There is no comparison.

Emmanuelle Beart

She doesn't even have to be 20...

Moi. Je suis France. Je suis Marianne.

co-stars in 1976

Jeanne Durand.

Bardot.

Catherine Deneuve, always and forever, and she's still around as no other screen sirens dares to show their faces onscreen anymore.

Emmanuelle Béart

There’s no such thing

Where is Beart now after her myriad failed plastic surgeries?

So chic and ennui-filled in La Dolce Vita:

Shades at night:

Isabelle Adjani will always be the most beautiful in my eyes.

R22, the lies you tell... Anouk Aimee is 87 and still out and about, reuniting with Claude LeLouch and Jean Louis Trintignant for a sequel to the classic "A Man and A Woman" (1966). Here she is at Cannes a few months ago.

R29, that’s from 2011.

Earlier this year...

R29 - 2011??? Oh, dear senilty.

Fanny Ardant, mais oui!

Melanie Thierry

I love Fanny Ardant, but she is too rawboned for me to think her beautiful.

R31 is from 2019, as you can see she hasn't aged much since 2011. At nearly 90, she doesn't look like someone with an allergic reaction induced puffy face.

"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older." - Anouk Aimee

I thought Francoise Deloreac was quite beautiful. And Catherine Denueuve of course.

Catherine Deneuve is so exquisite but there is something about Anouk Aimee's look I like more.

Melanie Laurent

Marion Cotillard was very beautiful when she was starting out. She is still very beautiful, although middle-aged.

OP R29 R31 R36 yeah yeah sure, Anouk Aimee for you.

But I will say Catherine Deneuve for me again, always and forever.

I wonder if we've truly established yet what the OP really thinks about Anouk Aimee's looks.

Or for that matter, what r1 thinks about Catherine Deneuve!

They each need to reiterate their choice's name many more times before this can be settled.

Excusez-moi?

Carla Bruni Sarkozy's big sister, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

[quote] Anouk Aimée, no?

No. Look at that massive nose!

LOL, R14. I was just going to say, I thought Modigliani's portraits were stylised until I saw Anouk Aimee.

I think Catherine Deneuve is more beautiful, but Anouk Aimee does have a more interesting face. She looks like she would be more fun to spend time with (and probably to have sex with, but I'm a homo, so what do I know?).

Aimee was in A Man and A Woman with Jean-Louis Trintingant, who was also no slouch in the looks department back in his salad days. Besides, AM&AW had a theme that - as EG's may remember - was ubiquitous in the mid/late-'60s. It was everywhere - elevators, supermarkets, department stores, your parents' radios ... inescapable.

Isabelle Huppert

Arielle Dombasle

Juliette Binoche

Jeanne Moreau

Wasn't Anouk paired with Ryan O'Neal for awhile? Ryan is never mentioned in these threads.

Another vote for Anouk Aimee. I loved A Man and A Woman, had the soundtrack and played it incessantly.

Bardot was much sexier than most of the ice queens posted here.

Françoise Rosay

Why do gay men care about this topic? unless it is mostly women here which is possible considering they are the majority at datalounge.

R57, you say that as though gay men haven't appreciated female beauty for ages. You think Da Vinci didn't appreciate women's looks, for instance?

Btw, I love Jeanne Moreau. In the 50s & 60s she was quite exquisite as the suffering, world-weary beauty... La Notte (1961) for example. In fact, I always thought of Anouk as a Garbo with sex appeal and Moreau as a Bette Davis with sex appeal.

Carole Bouquet, who was incandescently beautiful when she was young, and is still very beautiful.

Delphine Seyrig

R58 lesbians and straight men, and often times rather talk about female "sexyness" and not men. You never hear a straight male or lesbian talk about male beauty, now do you? I can appreciate a woman but do not find them sexy like you. Only bi people talk like that and you are it.

Edit: , and

Josiane Balasko.

Ok.. Upon further inspections of the posts here, i say most are women here. Ain' t no gay men calling a woman "very hot" or something to that effect.

R64 You can appreciate beauty even if you're not sexually attracted.

OT: I always think Jacqueline Bisset looks very French, even though she's English.

(Or maybe it's just her name)

R58 Exactly. Jeanne Moreau is the exemplary presence of Beautiful French Woman. Not "pretty", but deeply, sensually, beautiful. Every phoneme, gesture, expression despondent and transcendent. You can't totally appreciate her in still photos. You must see her move. Her walk in Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is one of the greatest moments in cinema (helped by Miles Davis improvised score). I am baffled by the comments that "gay men" should not be able to appreciate this beauty.

Great clip of Mile Davis improving the score as he watches the film of Moreau walking.

Vincente Minnelli's mother was French Canadian. So I'll have to go with Liza.

"lesbians and straight men, and often times rather talk about female "sexyness" and not men. You never hear a straight male or lesbian talk about male beauty, now do you? I can appreciate a woman but do not find them sexy like you. Only bi people talk like that and you are it."

Please, straight men and genuinely bi men are attracted to Playboy types, not Jeanne Moreau. This thread is soooooo gay.

Am I the only fan?

And another proof

Young Simone Signoret was very beautiful and she aged so badly.

One of the greatest French actress though.

Signoret was like Moreau, those eyes, right? Nor the cheekbones, or jawline, or nose... but the eyes reflecting some inner womanly beauty. Moreau remained stunning as she got old. As she aged Signoret became a "face with a view", but not beautiful like Moreau.

R71, yes.

Thanks r68

Anna Mouglalis who is half French

Juliette Binoche is definitely second. No one is beating Deneuve so it's all about second place.

Sandrine Bonnaire

R67 gay men do not tall about the sensual (sexual appearing and like) appeal of women. What do you not understand? I can recognize if a woman is pretty or ugly but i will not call her "hot" or "sexy" because my dick does not response to it.

The Holy Trinity of Deneuve, Binoche, and Huppert.

But Catherine Deneuve will always be first, not only because she has a beautiful face, but she has that special allure and great sex appeal, regardless of age.

Binoche gets more beautiful by the year. It's a French thing and she's never looked better.

Huppert was always really pretty but seemed to blossom in her late 40s into a great, edgy, sexy beauty. And she has an inner light in person that truly glows.

They've all had work done and the miracle of modern science has improved their looks, without a doubt. But let's face it: French women just do it better.

I'll vote for Bouquet. She was perfect in her 20s and 30s--almost like a living statue. Maybe too cold looking though but nobody in any country was more perfect. And a second for Adjani, the exact opposite type. See Queen Margot or the Story of Adele H for Huppert at absolute peak. The Story of Adele H is incredibly sad. Haven't seen it in years but I remember how pathetic she was at the end. If you want to see someone obsessed ....that's an understatement.

r83 here: I meant Adjani at her peak in L'Histoire d'Adele H. not Huppert.

"gay men do not tall about the sensual (sexual appearing and like) appeal of women. What do you not understand? I can recognize if a woman is pretty or ugly but i will not call her "hot" or "sexy" because my dick does not response to it."

Huh? Our concept of "sexy" comes from the culture, you don't have to get hard looking at pictures of women to know which ones are "sexy"