1.
What the Day Owes the Night (2012)
Role:
Madame Cazenave
Anne Parillaud made her film debut in an uncredited role in the French film ‘Un amour de sable’ (1977), followed by the French comedy film ‘L’Hotel de la plage’ (1978), while she was still in high school.
Thereafter, Parillaud starred alongside Catherine Deneuve in Hugo Santiago’s drama-thriller film ‘E’coute voir’ (1979), then played lead roles in the 1980 drama films ‘Girls’ and ‘Patrizia.’ Next, she co-starred with the French actor-filmmaker Alain Delon in his only directorial ventures, crime thrillers ‘Pour la peau d’un flic’ (1981) and ‘Le Battant’ (1983).
Parillaud then starred in the French drama film ‘Juillet en septembre’ (1988) and the Italian film (by Ettore Scola) ‘What Time is it?’ (1989). The French filmmaker Luc Besson (her then-husband) wrote the titular role for her in the action-thriller film ‘La femme Nikita’ (1990). The role of a teen criminal who is later trained to become a government secret assassin in this commercially successful film fetched her the ‘Cesar Award for Best Actress’ amongst other accolades and also fetched international fame leading to Hollywood.
In the American black-comedy horror film ‘Innocent Blood’ (1992), Parillaud played a beautiful vampire. Her performance in ‘Map of the Human Heart’ (1993) brought her a special mention at the ‘Tokyo International Film Festival.’ She further starred in the French drama film ‘A la folie’ (1994), the romantic drama war film ‘Frankie Starlight’ (1995), followed by the 1996 French film ‘Passage a l’acte’ and the American film ‘Dead Girl.’
Parillaud portrayed ‘Queen Mother Anne of Austria’ in the American action drama film ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’ (1998) and that same year, she starred in the thriller ‘Shattered Image.’ After the French romantic comedy ‘Une pour toutes’ (1999) and Oliver Marchal’s ‘Gangsters’ (2002), she starred in Catherine Breillat’s comedy drama ‘Sex is Comedy’ (2002)
The European action film ‘Deadlines’ (2004) earned Parillaud a ‘Best Actress’ award at the ‘Paris Film Festival.’ Thereafter, she starred in the French-Israeli film ‘Promised Land’ (2004) and other French films—‘Tout pour plaire’ (2005), ‘Dermandez la permission aux enfants’ (2007), ‘Une vieille maitresse’ (2007), L’Imbroglio nel Lenzuolo’ (2009), ‘In Their Sleep’ (2010), ‘La marquise des ombres’ (2010) and ‘What the Day Owes the Night’ (2012).
Parillaud also appeared in several TV series, including ‘Nessuno torna indietro’ (1987), ‘Chez Maupassant’ (2011) and ‘H24’ (2020), amongst others. The short films she appeared in were ‘Delicate Gravity’ (2013), ‘Desolee pour hier soir’ (2013), ‘Confesstion’ (2015) and ‘Mille feuille’ (2016). She starred in such TV movies as ‘Vincente’ (1985), ‘A nous les beaux diamanches’ 1986’ and ‘La fille de l’autre’ (2011).
