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Her family tree includes 38 members who were or are successful artists, mostly musicians. Her grandfather was a talented self-taught violinist. Henri Casadesus, her father, was a noted composer, while her mother, Marie-Louise Beetz, was a harpist. A cousin, Robert Casadesus, was a well-known pianist.

Had 4 children with 'Lucien Pascal': Conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus, actress Martine Pascal, artist Beatrice Casadesus and composer Dominique Probst.

She was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 1990.

She trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris, where she won first prize for comedy.

She was a star in the Comédie-Française, the national theater of France, for 30 years.

Cousin of Mathilde Casadesus.

Niece of Francis Casadesus

Daughter of Henri Casadesus.

Was married her whole life to Lucien Pascal. Died in 2017 in the same apartment building in Montmartre where she was born in 1914.

Mother of conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus.

She was an honorary member of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-Croix of the National Order of Merit.

She has played alongside legendary actors such as Jean Gabin, Jean-Louis Barrault and Louis Jouvet.

She received an Honorary Molière Award in 2003 for her entire career.

In her French homeland, she was revered as a grande dame of stage and screen, and showered with awards. She has played alongside legendary actors such as Jean Gabin, Jean-Louis Barrault and Louis Jouvet.

She became the 400th member of the Comédie-Française on 1 January 1939, and honorary member on 15 April 1967.

After receiving first prize in acting at French National Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of twenty, Casadeus joined the Comédie-Française in 1934.

In a career spanning more than 80 years, Casadesus appeared in more than a dozen films after turning 90.

In 2013, aged 99, Casadesus acted alongside Anne Consigny and Marie Kremer in Sous le figuier directed by Anne-Marie Étienne.

In cinema, Pierre Billon hired her in 1943 to play the role of Clotilde Grandlieus in Vautrin, adapted from Balzac's novel, alongside Michel Simon, and in 1946 for the role of Mary in L'Homme au chapeau rond, alongside Raimu.

Claude Lelouch engaged her in 1996 for the role of Clara Blanc, mother of Bernard Tapie, in Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi. and in Valérie Lemercier's comedy Palais Royal (2005) she played the queen mother.