Claude Jade
Gender: Female
Born: 8th October 1948
Died: 1st December 2006
Nationality: France
Movies: Love on the Run, My Uncle Benjamin, Stolen Kisses, Topaz, The Witness, Bonsoir, Le Bateau sur l'herbe, Home Sweet Home, Teheran 43, Honor Roll, Les Feux de la Chandeleur, Lenin in Paris, La ragazza di via Condotti, A Captain's Honor, Forbidden Priests, Rendezvous in Paris, Bed and Board, Le Radeau de la Méduse, Drug Scenes
Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (French: [klod ʒad]; 1948–2006), was a French actress, known for starring as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979). Jade acted in theatre, film and television. Her film work outside of France included the Soviet Union, the United States, Italy and Japan.
The daughter of university professors, Jade spent three years at Dijon's Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where in 1964 she won a best actress prize for her portrayal of Agnès in Molière's L'école des femmes. In 1966 she won the Prix de Comédie for Jean Giraudoux's stage play Ondine, performed at the Comédie Boulogne. She moved to Paris and became a student of Jean-Laurent Cochet at the Edouard VII theater, and began acting in television productions, including the TV series Les oiseaux rares.
While performing as Frida in Pirandello's Henri IV, in a production by Sacha Pitoëff at the Théâtre Moderne, Jade was discovered by New Wave film director François Truffaut. He was "completely taken by her beauty, her manners, her kindness, and her joie de vivre", and cast her in the role of Christine Darbon in Stolen
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