Jenny Clève
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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Filmography
A Mother
2015
as Le grand-mère
Brèves de comptoir
2014
as La vielle dame
Arrest Me
2013
as Mémé Gardie
- No poster
Les pieds dans le plat
2012
as Suzanne Lagadec
Welcome to the Sticks
2008
as Old Lady singing the 'P'tit Quinquin'
Itinéraires
2005
as La grand-mère
The Children of the Marshland
1999
as Berthe
XXL
1997
as Renée Bourdalou
Lucie Aubrac
1997
Élisa
1995
as Marie's Landlord
Germinal
1993
as Rose
Loonies at Large
1993
as La mère supérieure
Far from Brazil
1992
as Honorine
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
1992
as la sœur de Léon
Shipwrecked Children
1992
as Martha
Dark Woods
1989
as Anna Bourderias
The Murdered House
1988
as 'La Grenadière', Dupin's housekeeper
A Better Life
1985
as Adrien's mother
Partenaires
1984
as Marie-Lou's mother
The Bitch
1984
as Madame Beffroit
Hiver 60
1983
as Nelly, la mère d'André
One Deadly Summer
1983
as Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother
Cocktail Molotov
1980
as Frederic's mother
Les Aventures d'Yvon Dikkebusch
1980
as La mère d'Yvon