Aurore Clément

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Aurore Clément (born October 12, 1945) is a French actress. She has performed in a number of motion pictures in both the French language and the English language as well as in television films and miniseries.

She was born in Soissons, Aisne France. Following the death of her father, as a young girl she had to go to work to support her family. For a time she did modeling in Paris until being offered a role in film. Since her appearance in the 1974 Louis Malle film Lacombe Lucien, she has usually been cast in secondary roles but has worked steadily, respected for her talent and dedication to her craft.

Ms. Clément has appeared in more than 80 films and is most often remembered as the character "Anne" in the Wim Wenders directed film, Paris, Texas which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. Her first appearance in a US movie should have been in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now 1979, but her scenes--a long sequence where Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) meets French former colonists-- have been eventually cut from the film and only restored in the Redux version, in 2001. She has also been cast in numerous high quality films made for television.

In France, Ms Clément made her debuts on stage in 1988, and won an acting prize. She has been seen in several plays, including Alexandre Dumas fils' La Dame aux Camélias alongside Isabelle Adjani, for which she has been nominated for the Molieres (the equivalent of the American Tony's)

Aurore Clément is married to Dean Tavoularis, an American motion picture production designer.