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Jenny Clève

Acting Born Apr 3, 1930 Roubaix, Nord, France 24 credits

Biography

Jenny Clève (3 April 1930 – 17 February 2023) was a French actress.

Born in Roubaix on 3 April 1930, Clève was the daughter of André Clève and Marie Debode. She left her hometown during World War II and stayed with her father's cousins in Vernou-sur-Brenne. She returned to Roubaix in 1948 and was admitted to the Conservatoire de Roubaix, where she met Claude Talpaert, whom she married on 3 April 1951. The couple had four children: Nadine, Éric, Corinne, and Franck. Her granddaughter, Charlotte Talpaert, also became an actress. On 28 May 2019, she became the godmother of processional giant of Sailly-lez-Lannoy, Jean Gab'Lou.

Clève died in Tourcoing on 17 February 2023, at the age of 92.

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Full filmography

  • Police Commissioner Moulin (1976) as La mère de Mirko
  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958) as Mme Charlot
  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958) as Ginette Flamand
  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958) as Lucienne
  • Lace (1984) as Nurse
  • Mr. Klein (1976) as (uncredited)
  • Welcome to the Sticks (2008) as Old Lady singing the 'P'tit Quinquin'
  • One Deadly Summer (1983) as Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother
  • A Mother (2015) as Le grand-mère
  • Zodiac (2004) as Victoire
  • Germinal (1993) as Rose
  • XXL (1997) as Renée Bourdalou
  • Élisa (1995) as Marie's Landlord
  • Femmes Fatales (1976) as The Guardian Who Calls the Women
  • Lucie Aubrac (1997)
  • Itinéraires (2005) as La grand-mère
  • The Children of the Marshland (1999) as Berthe
  • Partenaires (1984) as Marie-Lou's mother
  • The Bitch (1984) as Madame Beffroit
  • L'Ennemi de la mort (1981) as La Grande
  • Vincendon as Héloïse
  • Hiver 60 (1983) as Nelly, la mère d'André
  • IP5: The Island of Pachyderms (1992) as la sœur de Léon
  • The Murdered House (1988) as 'La Grenadière', Dupin's housekeeper