Lyne Chardonnet
Biography
One could have thought Lyne Chardonnet had been blessed by the gods and would live a long successful happy life. For she really had everything to make it. A wasp-waisted blond-haired girl of radiant beauty, with a good drama training, she should have become a movie star and she would have been one if she had been born twenty years before, that is before the French New Wave set new standards, when ingénues like her were still in demand. Well, she WAS given one or two parts which gave her the opportunity to shine, such as the Jacotte she nicely portrayed in Michel Deville's elegant 'Benjamin' alongside Pierre Clémenti as virgin Benjamin and Michel Piccoli as his mentor (1967), or tragic Marie Vetsera's younger sister in Terence Young's version of 'Mayerling' (1968). However, despite this encouraging debut, roles soon dwindled to next to nothing: a few brief appearances as a blond hostess, a blond secretary or even as a (blond?) nun! Lyne Chardonnet sure deserved better. She had born in Paris in the last years of World War II to a fakir, Léopold Chardonnet, and his wife, Ellen Shapiro, of Irish origin. At the age of five, Lyne was already taking dancing lessons.
Known For
0Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
1958
At Theatre Tonight
1966
At Theatre Tonight
1966
Les Jeux de 20 heures
1976
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967
Un curé de choc
1974
Claudine
1978
The Toy
1976
Three Men to Kill
1980
The Tattoo
1968
Mayerling
1968
Les Sept de l'escalier 15
1967
Filmography
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
as Catherine · 1958
At Theatre Tonight
as Lyne Chardonnet · 1966
At Theatre Tonight
as Eva · 1966
Les Jeux de 20 heures
as Self · 1976
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
as Rena Jonasson · 1967
Un curé de choc
as La trafiquante · 1974
Claudine
as Valentine Chassenet · 1978
The Toy
as Miss Blond · 1976
Three Men to Kill
as L'infirmière au dossier · 1980
The Tattoo
as Valérie Mézeray, fille de Félicien · 1968
Mayerling
as Hannah Vetsera · 1968
Les Sept de l'escalier 15
as Sophie Blouin · 1967
The War Is Over
as The Pretty Blonde (uncredited) · 1966
Das Blaue Palais
as Yvonne (Ep. 1-3) · 1974
Dracula and Son
as infirmière · 1976
Les Hommes de Rose
as Josette · 1978
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
as Jacotte · 1968
Les coucous
as Barbara · 1978
My Uncle Benjamin
as Arabelle Minxit · 1969
A Time for Loving
as Bar Girl · 1972
Chanel Solitaire
as Young Nun · 1981
Une merveilleuse journée
as Geneviève · 1980
Bruno: Sunday's Child
as Valérie · 1969
Qui êtes-vous monsieur Renaudot ?
as Louise de Mascon · 1972
Pas moral pour deux sous
as Doris Chalmont · 1971
I. You. They.
as La dactylo · 1973
Clerambard
as Brigitte Galuchon · 1969
One-Eyed Men Are Kings
· 1974
The Egg
as Charlotte Berthoullet · 1972
Bon appétit monsieur
as Zozotte, la bonne · 1967