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Édith Scob

Born 1937-10-21
Died 2019-06-26
📍 Paris, France

Édith Scob (October 21, 1937 – June 26, 2019) was a French film and theatre actress, best known for her role as the daughter with a disfigured face in Eyes Without a Face (1960).

Scob was born Édith Helena Vladimirovna Scobeltzine, the granddaughter of a Russian Army general and White Russian émigré. Her father was an architect and her mother a journalist. Her elder brother, Michel Scob (1935–1995), was a French cycling champion and Olympian. At age 14, she underwent treatment for anorexia. Her love of literature inspired an interest in theatre. Scob was studying French at the Sorbonne and taking drama classes when she was cast in her first role.

She and her husband, composer Georges Aperghis, have two sons, Alexander (born 1970) and Jerome (born 1972), both writers.

Scob died in Paris on June 26th, 2019. No cause of death was given.

Scob made her debut in theater in 1958 with the play Don Juan directed by Georges Vitaly but she gained a high profile early in her career when she appeared in Eyes Without a Face (1960). She was twice nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Summer Hours (2008) and Holy Motors (2012).

Following the civil unrest in France of May 1968, Scob founded an avant-garde theatre in Bagnolet with her husband, composer Georges Aperghis, with the goal of introducing more culture to the most disadvantaged people.

Source: Article "Édith Scob" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography 86

No Gods No Masters
as La grand-mère de Laure
2025
Amor maman
as Edith
2019
Love at Second Sight
as Gabrielle, the grandmother
2019
Transfers
as Alexandra
2017
The Dunce
as Sarah
2016
Things to Come
as Yvette
2016
Wicked Game
as Madeleine de Lassay
2016
Family for Rent
as Madame Delalande
2015
Accusé
as Colette
2015
Gemma Bovery
as Madame de Bressigny
2014
Taprobana
as L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan
2014
An Eye for Beauty
as Edwige
2014
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
as Henriette
2014
Ennui Ennui
as La mère de Cléo
2013
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
as Self
2013
Electra, for Instance
as The choir and the coryphaeus
2013
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
as Self
2012
Clay
as Old Lady
2012
Holy Motors
as Céline
2012
Une vie française
as Claire Blick
2011
A Butterfly Kiss
as Madeleine
2011
The Long Falling
as Mme Talbot
2011
Retour à Mayerling
2011
Le garçon avec les cheveux dans les yeux
2009
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
as Self
2009
You Will Be Mine
as Mademoiselle Lainé
2009
Summer Hours
as Hélène
2008
Didine
as Madame Mirepoix
2008
Heartbeat Detector
as Lucy Jüst
2007
Suzanne
as Mado
2007
Echo
as The caretaker
2007
Komma
as Hélène Brückner
2006
A Truck Under Repair
as Mathilde
2006
The Ring Finger
as La dame du 223
2005
The Lost Domain
as Mme Chantal
2005
Les vamps fantastiques
as Self
2003
That Day
as Leone
2003
Bon Voyage
as Mme Arbesault
2003
Man on the Train
as Manesquier's Sister
2002
Sœur Thérèse.com
as Mère supérieure
2002
Vidocq
as Sylvia
2001
Savage Souls
as Première femme veillée
2001
Du côté des filles
as Fanette
2001
Brotherhood of the Wolf
as Mme de Morangias
2001
The Dark Room
as The widow
2000
Comedy of Innocence
as Laurence
2000
Of Woman and Magic
as Mme Weygand - la mère de Claire
2000
Fidelity
as Diane
2000
Time Regained
as Oriane de Guermantes
1999
Venus Beauty Institute
as La cliente aux taches sur les mains
1999
An Air So Pure
as Mlle Sophie
1997
Casa de Lava
as Edith
1995
Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
as Jeanne de Béthune
1994
Loonies at Large
as Madame Toussaint
1993
La fable des continents
as Etnóloga
1991
The Lovers on the Bridge
as Couple in car
1991
Rue du Bac
as Judith
1991
One Can Always Dream
as Solange de Boylesve
1991
Radio corbeau
as Mme Michel, la libraire
1989
Casting
as Charles's wife
1983
One Deadly Summer
as Doctor
1983
A Thousand Billion Dollars
as Madame Bronsky
1982
Le Sang des Atrides
as La voyante
1981
Le Dernier Mélodrame
as Lilette
1979
The Suspended Vocation
as Mère Angélique 1
1978
To Each His Hell
as La folle
1977
La Poupée sanglante
as Marquise de Coulteray
1976
The Acrobat
as Valentine
1976
Erica Minor
as Marianne
1974
La tête
as Voices (voice)
1973
The Old Maid
as Edith, Monod's Wife
1972
Love Me Strangely
as Sylvie Revent
1971
The Milky Way
as Virgin Mary
1969
Haschisch
as Actress
1968
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
as Alice Brent
1967
Thomas the Impostor
as l'infirmière
1965
Fantasmagorie
as The woman
1964
Judex
as Jacqueline Favraux
1963
Therese
as Anne De La Trave
1962
The Burning Court
as Marie D'Aubray Boissand
1962
Emile's Boat
as Claude Larmentiel
1962
Assassin in the Phonebook
as Jenny
1962
Le Bel Âge
as Edith
1960
Eyes Without a Face
as Christiane Génessier
1960
Line of Sight
as Pascale
1960
Head Against the Wall
as The singing mad
1959