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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Drifting Laurent
Character:Sophia
Release Date:31/12/2025
Les Scandaleuses
Character:Self
Release Date:20/12/2024
Maldoror
Character:Rita
Release Date:08/09/2024
The Passion According to Béatrice
Character:Self
Release Date:07/08/2024
Le bonheur est pour demain
Character:Lucie
Release Date:31/01/2024
Béatrice Dalle, à prendre ou à laisser
Character:Self
Release Date:03/11/2023
The Beast in the Jungle
Character:The Physiognomist
Release Date:16/08/2023
Tell Me Iggy
Character:Self
Release Date:23/05/2022
Love Is Better Than Life
Character:Béa, the devil's lawyer
Release Date:19/01/2022
Lux Æterna
Character:Béatrice
Release Date:23/09/2020
Disclaimer
Character:Béatrice Dalle (Cameo)
Release Date:27/11/2019
Beyond Blood
Character:Self
Release Date:23/08/2019
Dance of Chance
Character:La patronne du café
Release Date:22/08/2019
My Guy
Character:Annick, la mère de Marilyn
Release Date:29/08/2018
The Happy Prince
Character:Café Concert Manager
Release Date:12/04/2018
JoeyStarr, l'enfant terrible
Character:Self
Release Date:31/10/2017
Everyone's Life
Character:Clémentine
Release Date:15/03/2017
Lucrèce Borgia
Character:
Release Date:08/07/2015
ABCs of Death 2
Character:The Grandmother (Segment "Xylophone")
Release Date:02/10/2014
Rosenn
Character:
Release Date:12/03/2014
Among the Living
Character:Jeanne Faucheur
Release Date:10/03/2014
My Sisters
Character:Mildred
Release Date:06/02/2014
Blue Notes and Bungalows
Character:Self
Release Date:25/11/2013
You and the Night
Character:Female Commissioner
Release Date:08/09/2013
Le Renard jaune
Character:Béatrice (Brigitte)
Release Date:26/06/2013
Fumer tue
Character:Csilla
Release Date:15/03/2013
Michael H. – Profession: Director
Character:Self
Release Date:15/03/2013
Morning Star
Character:Zohra
Release Date:28/11/2012
Punk
Character:Teresa
Release Date:31/08/2012
Bye Bye Blondie
Character:Gloria
Release Date:12/03/2012
Livid
Character:Lucie's Mother
Release Date:06/12/2011
Our Paradise
Character:Anna
Release Date:28/09/2011
Jimmy Rivière
Character:Gina
Release Date:09/03/2011
Ink
Character:Mathilde
Release Date:31/12/2010
Domain
Character:Nadia
Release Date:10/09/2009
God's Offices
Character:Milena
Release Date:05/11/2008
New Wave
Character:Anna
Release Date:19/09/2008
Inside
Character:La Femme
Release Date:13/06/2007
Crime Insiders
Character:Béa
Release Date:17/01/2007
The Intruder
Character:La reine de l'hémisphère nord
Release Date:04/05/2005
In Your Dreams
Character:Ava
Release Date:13/04/2005
Clean
Character:Elena
Release Date:01/09/2004
The Gate of the Sun
Character:Catherine
Release Date:18/05/2004
Process
Character:The actress
Release Date:10/02/2004
Time of the Wolf
Character:Lise Brandt
Release Date:28/08/2003
Les oreilles sur le dos
Character:Monica
Release Date:08/11/2002
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
Character:Tatla the Machine God (Voice)
Release Date:19/10/2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Character:Self
Release Date:20/05/2002
Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard
Character:Cécile
Release Date:17/05/2002
H Story
Character:The Actress
Release Date:17/10/2001
Trouble Every Day
Character:Coré
Release Date:11/07/2001
a-ha: Headlines and Deadlines
Character:Girl ("Move to Memphis" Video)
Release Date:25/10/1999
Toni
Character:Marie
Release Date:20/01/1999
To the Limit
Character:Elena
Release Date:19/12/1997
The Blackout
Character:Annie
Release Date:11/06/1997
Clubbed to Death
Character:Saida
Release Date:25/06/1996
Desire
Character:Madeleine
Release Date:10/04/1996
6 Days, 6 Nights
Character:Elsa
Release Date:28/09/1994
I Can't Sleep
Character:Mona
Release Date:18/05/1994
The Girl in the Air
Character:Brigitte
Release Date:26/05/1992
The Beautiful Story
Character:Odona
Release Date:18/03/1992
Night on Earth
Character:Blind Woman
Release Date:12/12/1991
A Woman's Revenge
Character:Suzy
Release Date:10/01/1990
Dark Woods
Character:Violette
Release Date:23/08/1989
Chimère
Character:Alice
Release Date:26/05/1989
The Witches' Sabbath
Character:Maddalena
Release Date:26/05/1988
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Character:La star
Release Date:24/12/1986
Betty Blue
Character:Betty
Release Date:09/04/1986
CASTING
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1986
Television Appearances
Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
Character:Self - Guest
Kôkôrikô !
Character:
Drag Race France
Character:Self - Guest Judge
Son Of
Character:Wafah
Inside
Character:Commandant Elisabeth Favard
Disturbing Disappearances
Character:Iris Koben
Malaterra
Character:Suzanne Leroy
Call My Agent!
Character:Self
Capitaine Marleau
Character:Alice Le Drouin
Salut les Terriens !
Character:Self - Guest
60 jours, 60 nuits
Character:Self
Clive James' Postcard from
Character:Self
Nulle part ailleurs
Character:Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Character:Self
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