Nathalie Baye

Acting · 1.8 popularity

Age

Movies

120

Born: July 6, 1948 – April 17, 2026
From: Mainneville, Eure, France

Biography

Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye (July 6, 1948 – April 17, 2026) was a French film, television, and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. A ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for Every Man for Himself (1980), Strange Affair (1981), La Balance (1982), and The Young Lieutenant (2005). Her other films include Day for Night (1973), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Tell No One (2006), and The Assistant (2015). In 2009, she was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Baye was born in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy to Claude Baye and Denise Coustet, two painters. At 14, she joined a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States. On returning to France, she continued with dance but also registered for the Simon Course and was admitted to the Conservatoire, from where she graduated in 1972 with a second prize in comedy, dramatic comedy, and foreign theatre. Her second cinema appearance was in Two People (1973), directed by Robert Wise. She became better known as the script girl in Day for Night (La Nuit américaine, 1973) by François Truffaut. Throughout the 1970s, she played the good girlfriend or nice provincial girl in film and television. She won her first César, as best supporting artist, for Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie), 1980) directed by Jean-Luc Godard. There then followed The Return of Martin Guerre (Le Retour de Martin Guerre, 1982) and La Balance (also 1982). Baye won two more César Awards, Best Supporting Actress, for Strange Affair (Une étrange affaire, 1981), and Best Actress for La Balance, 1982). Her four-year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a celebrity couple and their daughter is Laura Smet, now an actress. After changing her image by playing a streetwalker in La Balance, she widened her scope with more obscure characters in J'ai épousé une ombre (1983) and En toute innocence (1988). In 1986, she returned to the theatre with an interpretation of Adriana Monti. In 1999, she was voted Best Supporting Actress at Venice Film Festival for Une liaison pornographique and starred in Vénus Beauté (Institut) (2000) by Tonie Marshall which won multiple César Awards including Best Film. She has worked with Claude Chabrol and Steven Spielberg. Source: Article "Nathalie Baye" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Works

120 films

Catch Me If You Can

20028.0

Beau Pere

19816.4

Downton Abbey: A New Era

20227.2

Hitler in Hollywood

20116.2

Médée

20178.0

Haute Couture

20216.1

It's Only the End of the World

20167.2

Alibi.com 2

20236.6

Alibi.com

20176.5

I've Been Waiting So Long

20044.7

Feelings

20035.9

Tell No One

20067.2

Day for Night

19737.8

The Slap

19746.6

Michou d'Auber

20076.4

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

19935.6

Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste

2023

The Last Woman

19766.1

And the Band Played On

19936.5

Moka

20166.0

Detective

19855.3

Laurence Anyways

20127.6

Our Story

19846.3

An Affair of Love

19996.3

Paparazzi

19985.0

SK1

20156.9

The Return of Martin Guerre

19826.7

Visage

20095.4

The Assistant

20155.4

A French Gigolo

20085.1

Beautiful Lies

20106.1

C'est La Vie

19906.0

Bye Bye

20115.0

Barnie's Minor Annoyances

20015.5

Godard by Godard

20237.8

To Mathieu

20015.9

Queens of the Ring

20135.8

Venus Beauty Institute

19995.9

My Son

20066.6

Marie-Octobre

20086.0

François Truffaut, une autobiographie

20046.6

The Man Who Loved Women

19777.1

The Green Room

19786.6

La Californie

20064.7

Lou!

20145.7

Every Man for Himself

19806.2

The Guardians

20176.1

The Mouth Agape

19746.4

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2022

2022

Bon vent Claude Goretta

2011

Him

20214.5

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

19725.9

The Flower of Evil

20036.1

The Machine

19945.3

La Balance

19826.4

The Voice

199210.0

The Young Lieutenant

20056.7

Enfants de salaud

19964.5

Rive droite, rive gauche

19845.7

Mado

19766.5

Sous le soleil de Pialat

20216.4

Rat Race

19805.4

Small World

20106.3

Food of Love

19974.0

Strange Affair

19816.2

Mother Valley

20234.5

Honeymoon

19854.6

Monsieur Papa

19774.9

Mensonge

19934.0

Beethoven's Nephew

19855.2

L'Inconnu

19737.0

Conversation avec Nathalie Baye

20216.5

Godard Cinema

20235.5

Engagements of the Heart

19875.7

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

20027.0

The Man Inside

19906.0

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

20148.0

Beware of My Love

19984.9

Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))

1981

Absolutely Fabulous

20014.9

Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous

19758.2

Madame Sourdis

19798.0

The Great Restaurant

20105.7

A Week's Vacation

19806.1

The Honeymoon Trip

19764.2

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

20166.0

I Married a Shadow

19836.5

Jacques Villeret, drôlement tragique

20256.3

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

20247.7

Les contes sauvages

19939.0

Fill 'er Up with Super

19766.5

God's Offices

20086.5

The Price to Pay

20075.4

One Stays, the Other Leaves

20055.2

Sheila, toutes ces vies-là

20227.5

Sauve la vie (qui peut)

19818.0

Tomorrow's Another Day

20004.7

Solemn Communion

19774.6

La provinciale

19815.7

My Best Part

20205.4

The Red Shade

19815.3

From Time to Time

19928.0

Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés

19966.0

France Boutique

20034.9

Massacre Play

19895.0

Bacri, comme un air de famille

20227.6

Off and Running

20085.4

Together Is Too Much

20104.4

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

19797.0

Mon Premier Amour

19788.0

No Harm Intended

19885.6

Short Memory

19825.3

Soirée Pyjama

2019

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death

19967.7

Un jour, la fête

19756.8

Every Other Weekend

19907.0

Préjudice

20155.9

Acteur

2007

Thomas

2018

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child

19967.7