Claude Jade

Claude Jade (born 8 October, 1948) is a French actress, who was the star in François Truffaut's movies Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run. Claude Jade has also played in American (Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz), Belgian, Italian, Japanese and Soviet movies and was a star in the television series The Island of Thirty Coffins (1979). Her many contributions to French Culture were recognised in 1998, when she was named a Knight in the légion d'honneur. In 2000 she received the New Wave Award at Palm Beach International Film Festival for her "trend-setting role in the world cinema".

Her autobiography Baisers envolés was released in march 2004.

Selected Filmography

• Stolen Kisses (1968)
• Under the Sign of Monte Cristo (1968)
• Topaz (1969)
• My Uncle Benjamin (1969)
• The Witness (1969)
• Bed & Board (1970)
• Boat on the Grass (1971)
• Hearth Fires (1972)
• Home Sweet Home (1973)
• Forbidden Priests (1973)
• Too Much is Too Much (1974)
• The Choice (1975)
• Sly Pleasure (1975)
• Cape of North (Kita No Misaki)
• Spiral of Mist (1977)
• The Pawn (1978)
• Love on the Run (1979)
• Teheran 43 (1980)
• Lenin in Paris (1981)
• A Captain's Honor (1982)
• Lise and Laura (1982)
• Rendezvous in Paris (1983)
• A Little Girl in the Sunflowers (1984)
• The Man Who Wasn't There (1986)
• Honor Roll (1992)
• Bonsoir (1994)
• The Raft of the Medusa (1998)