Jenny Clève

Personal Info

Birthday

April 3, 1930

Day of Death

2023-02-17

(92 years old)

Place of Birth

Roubaix, Nord, France

Also Known As

Jenny Cleve

Jenny Clèves

Jenny Clève

Biography

Jenny Clève (3 April 1930 – 17 February 2023) was a French actress. Born in Roubaix on 3 April 1930, Clève was the daughter of André Clève and Marie Debode.

She left her hometown during World War II and stayed with her father's cousins in Vernou-sur-Brenne. She returned to Roubaix in 1948 and was admitted to the Conservatoire de Roubaix, where she met Claude Talpaert, whom she married on 3 April 1951. The couple had four children: Nadine, Éric, Corinne, and Franck.

Known For

Police Commissioner Moulin

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

Lace

Welcome to the Sticks

Mr. Klein

One Deadly Summer

The Children of the Marshland

Germinal

Filmography

2015
A Mother
as Le grand-mère
2014
Brèves de comptoir
as La vielle dame
2013
Arrest Me
as Mémé Gardie
2012
Les pieds dans le plat
as Suzanne Lagadec
2008
Welcome to the Sticks
as Old Lady singing the 'P'tit Quinquin'
2005
Itinéraires
as La grand-mère
1999
The Children of the Marshland
as Berthe
1997
XXL
as Renée Bourdalou
1995
Elisa
as Marie's Landlord
1993
Germinal
as Rose
Loonies at Large
as La mère supérieure
1992
Far from Brazil
as Honorine
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
as la sœur de Léon
Shipwrecked Children
as Martha
1989
Dark Woods
as Anna Bourderias
1988
The Murdered House
as 'La Grenadière', Dupin's housekeeper
1985
A Better Life
as Adrien's mother
1984
Partenaires
as Marie-Lou's mother
The Bitch
as Madame Beffroit
1983
Hiver 60
as Nelly, la mère d'André
One Deadly Summer
as Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother
1980
Cocktail Molotov
as Frederic's mother
Les Aventures d'Yvon Dikkebusch
as La mère d'Yvon
Hurricane Rosie
as Mother Superior
1979
Plurielles
as The lady
1978
Like a Turtle on Its Back
as Germaine
Dossier 51
as Agent 747, cleaning lady of 51
1977
The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
as Mireille
Solemn Communion
as Lucie Fourcignie-Ternolain
Shadow of the Castles
as Une foraine
1976
Mr. Klein
as (uncredited)
F as in Fairbanks
as La grand-mère
Femmes Fatales
as The guardian who calls the women
Doctor Francoise Gailland
as Denise Fourcade
1973
Love Brides of the Blood Mummy
as The Farmer