Biografia

Partner with François Truffaut (1981-1984). François died in 1984.

Grew up in Monaco until the age of 17 when she started studying international relations in Aix-en-Provence.

The Dutch artist Jan Cremer named a painting of a tulip after her: Tulip Fanny Ardant.

Learned of François Truffaut's death while filming Les enragés (1985). She refused to stop filming.

French singer Vincent Delerm wrote song "Fanny Ardant Et Moi" ("Fanny Ardant and me").

[answering a question about what she wants to do before she passes] I would like to be a hairdresser - a shop in a small village in Italy, Sicily. Sometimes I dream about it. I would cut the hair of everyone - from the priest to the Mafioso, the beautiful lady and the young girl in the wedding. It would be the most important place in the village.

The strength of the French cinema [is that] the director puts the woman in the middle of the story. And if you look at French literature carefully - Balzac, Flaubert, Stendahl - always look for the woman.

I think it will become more and more normal to see older actors because the population is becoming more and more older. It's like wine, cinema.

[on undertaking a role] If you prepare too much, after a while you are not surprised any more by the way the man - the husband or the lover - is going to look at you, to smile at you, to answer you. It's better to be available.

[on François Truffaut] For him, film was a matter of life and death. He used to say, "In films, trains never run late" - I love that. Film was his salvation because in film everything has a meaning. Life is chaotic but in cinema you can stop time. François used to say, "Those who love life, love cinema." That's for sure.