Biography

Bulle Ogier (born Marie-France Thielland on 9 August 1939) is a French actress. Ogier's first appearance on screen was in Voilà l'Ordre, a short film directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc. She worked with Jacques Rivette (L'Amour fou, Céline et Julie vont en bateau, Duelle, Le Pont du Nord, La Bande des Quatre), Luis Buñuel (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), René Allio, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Paul Civeyrac (All the Fine Promises Prix Jean Vigo), Claude Duty, Marguerite Duras, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Barbet Schroeder, and others. Her daughter Pascale Ogier was also an actress, with a promising career that was cut short by her early death the day before her 26th birthday. Ogier is married to producer and director Barbet Schroeder.