
Béatrice Dalle
Béatrice Dalle (born 19 December 1964) is a French actress and model. She has appeared in over fifty films and is best known internationally for her debut role in the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (also released as Betty Blue). Béatrice Dalle is renowned for her intense and unconventional roles, often portraying characters that are both provocative and transgressive. Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. She grew up in Le Mans with her mother, father, and an older sister. At age 15, Dalle ran away from home to live in Paris. In 1985, she married the painter Jean-François Dalle, whom she divorced in 1988. In 2005, Dalle married an inmate she met while acting in a short film that was being shot in a prison. They divorced in 2015. Dalle was working as a model when she met filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix. Beineix cast her in the lead role of the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (released in the UK and USA as Betty Blue) which received BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and made a star of Dalle. She went on to appear in a series of major roles in French films, including the 1989 film Chimère, which was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. She featured in the 1987 music video for Buster Poindexter's version of "Oh Me Oh My (I'm fool for you Baby)" and in the 1991 music video for "Move to Memphis" by Norwegian band a-ha. She starred in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth in 1991. In 1997, she was cast in The Blackout, her first film made in the United States. In 2001, Dalle appeared in the controversial film Trouble Every Day, in which she played a compulsive sexual cannibal. She starred in the 2007 film À l'intérieur, in which she played a cruel psychopath stalking a pregnant woman. In 1988, Dalle was interviewed by Clive James in "Postcard from Paris" where she said she was tired of Paris and wanted to move to New York. Dalle has been arrested on several occasions for shoplifting, drug possession and assault. In January 2005, while making a film about prison life in Brest, Dalle met Guenaël Meziani, serving a 12-year prison sentence for assaulting and raping his ex-girlfriend. She married him after 24 one-hour visits, and spoke on his behalf at hearings for his early release. According to a 2015 profile of Dalle, she said the marriage was "a complete disaster" once Meziani was released from prison, and their divorce was apparently finalised in July 2014. Interviewed on the French TV programme Divan in 2016, Dalle stated that when she used to work in a morgue with her friends, they sold body parts of corpses, and while on acid, they ate a dead man's ear. Source: Article "Béatrice Dalle" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
90 acting credits
Acting · 90

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Nulle part ailleurs
1987

Capitaine Marleau
2015

Call My Agent!
2015

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023

Eurotrash
1993

Salut les Terriens !
2006

Drag Race France
2022

Trouble Every Day
2001

Betty Blue
1986

Inside
2007

Night on Earth
1991

Disturbing Disappearances
2019

Clive James' Postcard from
1989

Son Of
2022

The Happy Prince
2018

Malaterra
2015

A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002

Clean
2004

Drifting Laurent
2025

ABCs of Death 2
2014

Livid
2011

Crime Insiders
2007

Lux Æterna
2020

Maldoror
2024

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
2002

Kôkôrikô !
2023

Time of the Wolf
2003

Bye Bye Blondie
2012

Inside
2019

The Blackout
1997

The Beast in the Jungle
2023

My Guy
2018

In Your Dreams
2005

Tell Me Iggy
2022

I Can't Sleep
1994

Desire
1996

Process
2004

Everyone's Life
2017

Pourquoi t'as pas d'enfants ?
2026

God's Offices
2008

60 jours, 60 nuits
2003

H Story
2001

To the Limit
1997

Among the Living
2014

Le Renard jaune
2013

Le bonheur est pour demain
2024

Dance of Chance
2019

My Sisters
2014

The Intruder
2005

You and the Night
2013

A Woman's Revenge
1990

The Beautiful Story
1992

Michael H. – Profession: Director
2013

Les Scandaleuses
2024

Disclaimer
2019

Our Paradise
2011

Morning Star
2012

Love Is Better Than Life
2022

The Witches' Sabbath
1988

6 Days, 6 Nights
1994

New Wave
2008

On a volé Charlie Spencer !
1986

Toni
1999

Chimère
1989

The Girl in the Air
1992

Beyond Blood
2019

The Passion According to Béatrice
2024

Dark Woods
1989

Jimmy Rivière
2011

Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard
2002

Clubbed to Death
1996

My Coluche
2026

Punk
2012

Domain
2009

The Gate of the Sun
2004

Lucrèce Borgia
2015

Rosenn
2014

a-ha: Headlines and Deadlines
1999

Blue Notes and Bungalows
2013

JoeyStarr, l'enfant terrible
2017

CASTING
1986

Séraphine
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À la poursuite de Claude Lelouch
2026

Béatrice Dalle, à prendre ou à laisser
2023

Les oreilles sur le dos
2002

Fumer tue
2013

Ink
2010
Les Mouettes
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Tête d'or
2007