Lyne Chardonnet

Biography

One could have thought Lyne Chardonnet had been blessed by the gods and would live a long successful happy life. For she really had everything to make it. A wasp-waisted blond-haired girl of radiant beauty, with a good drama training, she should have become a movie star and she would have been one if she had been born twenty years before, that is before the French New Wave set new standards, when ingénues like her were still in demand. Well, she WAS given one or two parts which gave her the opportunity to shine, such as the Jacotte she nicely portrayed in Michel Deville's elegant 'Benjamin' alongside Pierre Clémenti as virgin Benjamin and Michel Piccoli as his mentor (1967), or tragic Marie Vetsera's younger sister in Terence Young's version of 'Mayerling' (1968). However, despite this encouraging debut, roles soon dwindled to next to nothing: a few brief appearances as a blond hostess, a blond secretary or even as a (blond?) nun! Lyne Chardonnet sure deserved better. She had born in Paris in the last years of World War II to a fakir, Léopold Chardonnet, and his wife, Ellen Shapiro, of Irish origin. At the age of five, Lyne was already taking dancing lessons.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Toy (1976) — Miss Blond
2. The Tattoo (1968) — Valérie Mézeray, fille de Félicien
3. Three Men to Kill (1980) — L'infirmière au dossier
4. My Uncle Benjamin (1969) — Arabelle Minxit
5. Mayerling (1968) — Hannah Vetsera
6. The War Is Over (1966) — The Pretty Blonde (uncredited)
7. The Diary of an Innocent Boy (1968) — Jacotte
8. Dracula and Son (1976) — infirmière
9. Clerambard (1969) — Brigitte Galuchon
10. One-Eyed Men Are Kings (1974)
11. Chanel Solitaire (1981) — Young Nun
12. Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre (1967) — Rena Jonasson
13. Claudine (1978) — Valentine Chassenet
14. A Time for Loving (1972) — Bar Girl
15. The Egg (1972) — Charlotte Berthoullet
16. I. You. They. (1973) — La dactylo
17. At Theatre Tonight (1966) — Lyne Chardonnet
18. Une merveilleuse journée (1980) — Geneviève
19. Un curé de choc (1974) — La trafiquante
20. Les Sept de l'escalier 15 (1967) — Sophie Blouin
21. Bon appétit monsieur (1967) — Zozotte, la bonne
22. Bruno: Sunday's Child (1969) — Valérie
23. Les Hommes de Rose (1978) — Josette
24. Das Blaue Palais (1974) — Yvonne (Ep. 1-3)
25. Les Jeux de 20 heures (1976) — Self
26. Qui êtes-vous monsieur Renaudot ? (1972) — Louise de Mascon
27. Les coucous (1978) — Barbara
28. Pas moral pour deux sous (1971) — Doris Chalmont
29. Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958) — Catherine