Jeanne Pérez

Jeanne Pérez — Biography

Jeanne Pérez was a supporting actress in French cinema from 1930 to 1975. Her real name was Guilhemine Farenc. Over some forty-five years she appeared in seventy-one films, television movies and series, and became known for small but memorable parts as a maid, a neighbour or an elderly woman.

The weight of her career fell between the late 1950s and the mid-1960s. She played Madame Chaunier in Le Beau Serge (1958) and the housekeeper in The Cousins (1959). Marie in Crésus (1960), Marthe in The Gigolo (1960), Mother Capitaine in Where the Truth Lies (1962), Balionte in Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962) and La Bretonne in Circus Angel (1965) followed. Her credits also include Classe tous risques, Le monte-charge and Diary of a Chambermaid.

She kept working in later years, playing an elderly gossip in Murder Is a Murder (1972) and another part in Le concierge (1973). Born on 28 September 1894 in Castelsarrasin, she died on 11 May 1975 in Cambo-les-Bains.