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Renée Jeanne Falconetti

1892 - 1946

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Renée Jeanne Falconetti (21 July 1892 – 12 December 1946), sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Renée Maria Falconetti, or simply Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her acclaimed role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent The Passion of Joan of Arc and subsequent mysterious and enigmatic death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Renée Jeanne Falconetti has received more than 305,607 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Renée Jeanne Falconetti is the 3,621st most popular actor, the 3,963rd most popular biography from France and the 250th most popular French Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 3,621 out of 13,578. Before her are Uschi Glas, Fred Gwynne, Matthew Garber, Shirley Henderson, Raoul Bova, and Renato Rascel. After her are Ajita Wilson, Albert Dekker, Burt Ward, Vladimir Sokoloff, Edie Falco, and Oleg Vidov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 193. Before her are Antonio María Barbieri, Hal Roach, Ólafur Thors, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Peter Doi, and Theodor Plievier. After her are Moisei Ginzburg, Bessie Coleman, Arvo Aaltonen, Stanisław Ostrowski, P. C. Chang, and Dorothy Garrod. Among people deceased in 1946, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 158. Before her are Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães, Amir Hamzah, Júlio Prestes, Shirase Nobu, Teizo Takeuchi, and Rudolf Walden. After her are Jacob Ellehammer, Moisei Ginzburg, Saint Alphonsa, Barbu Știrbey, Giuseppe Adami, and Mae Busch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 3,963 out of 6,770. Before her are René Llense (1913), Johann Fischart (1546), Noël Bas (1877), Sidney Govou (1979), René Dubos (1901), and Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma (1933). After her are Elisabeth Abegg (1882), Alphonse Legros (1837), J. R. D. Tata (1904), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), Guy de la Chapelle (1868), and Léon Delagrange (1872).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 250. Before her are Michael Vartan (1968), Georgette Leblanc (1869), Denis Lavant (1961), Lili Damita (1904), Richard Berry (1950), and Dominique Blanc (1956). After her are Paul Meurisse (1912), Saïd Taghmaoui (1973), Victor Lanoux (1936), Françoise Rosay (1891), André Wilms (1947), and Dominique Lavanant (1944).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Passion of Joan of Arc
Jeanne d'Arc
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
Apr 21st 19288.001 / 10
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.
Apr 11th 19747.2 / 10
Nitrate Flames
Herself (archive footage)
French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s. In her strange journey through life, she found a very special character, the center of a tragic story and the obsession of a peculiar filmmaker: a unique opportunity, a sublime performance, so remarkable that nothing would ever be the same for her again…
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