Christine Boisson

Biography

Christine Boisson (8 April 1956 – 21 October 2024) was a French actress.

== Biography == Boisson was born in Salon-de-Provence on 8 April 1956; her mother was French and her father was from the West Indies. After she registered in a model agency, Just Jaeckin liked her photo, and she got a part in the film Emmanuelle starring Sylvia Kristel, in which she played a lollipop-sucking teenager who masturbates over a picture of Paul Newman. Then she got some more film roles, but she also continued to study acting. In 1977, she made her stage debut in Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Bruno Bayen. In 1984, she received the Prix Romy Schneider (most promising actress awards) for Rue Barbare. In 2005, she was starring in the stage play Viol by Botho Strauß (based on Titus Andronicus), directed by Luc Bondy. In 2010, it was widely reported that she had attempted suicide after she climbed over the parapet of her 5th floor apartment and was stopped by firefighters. In a later interview, she said she had done this after an argument with her boyfriend at the time as an act of psychological manipulation, an action she was not proud of. She also described growing up with an abusive mother who constantly reminded her that she had almost died giving birth to her, and sexually abused both her and her brother. Boisson died from lung disease at a care home in Paris on 21 October 2024, at the age of 68. She had a daughter.

== Filmography ==

== Stage == 1977–1978: La mouette by Anton Chekhov (directed by Bruno Bayen) 1978: La mouette reprise at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers 1978: Etre vidé (directed by Remo Girones) 1978: Et pourtant ce silence ne pouvait by Magnan 1978: Antoine et Cléopâtre by William Shakespeare 1978: Périples, prince de Tyr by Shakespeare (directed by Roger Planchon) - T.N.P. Villeurbanne 1979: Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset (directed by Otomar Krejča) 1980–1981: La trilogie du revoir by Botho Strauss (directed by Claude Régy) - Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers 1981–1982: Grand et petit by Botho Strauss (directed by Claude Régy) - T.N.P. Villeurbanne 1984: Par les villages by Peter Handke (directed by Claude Régy) - Théâtre national de Chaillot 1988: Des sentiments soudains by Jean-Louis Livi (directed by Jean Bouchaud) - Théâtre de la Renaissance 1989: Andromaque by Racine (directed by Roger Planchon) - T.N.P. Villeurbanne 1991–1992: C'était hier by Harold Pinter (directed by Sami Frey) - Tour 1993: La mégère apprivoisée by William Shakespeare (directed by Jérôme Savary) - Théâtre national de Chaillot, Théâtre de Nice 1995: Démons by Lars Norén (directed by Gérard Desarthe) - Théâtre de Vidy Lausanne, Tour 1996 1998: Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter (directed by Harold Pinter) - Théâtre du Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées 2001: Les monologues du vagin by Eve Ensler (directed by François-Louis Tilly) - Petit Théâtre de Paris 2002: La campagne by Martin Crimp (directed by Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) 2002: Le collier d'Hélène by Carole Frechette (directed by Michel Dumoulin) 2003: Les monologues du vagin 2005: Viol by Botho Strauss (directed by Luc Bondy)

== References ==

== External links == Christine Boisson at IMDb Christine Boisson at AlloCiné (in French) Christine Boisson discography at Discogs