Béatrice Dalle (born 19 December 1964) is a French actress and model. She has appeared in over fifty films and is best known internationally for her debut role in the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (also released as Betty Blue). Béatrice Dalle is renowned for her intense and unconventional roles, often portraying characters that are both provocative and transgressive.
Biography Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou.There are conflicting references to Dalle's birthplace. The majority of sources state she was born in Brest, Finistère. However, several sources state that she was born in Le Mans, Sarthe. She was raised Catholic and grew up in Le Mans with her mother, father, and an older sister. At age 15, Dalle ran away from home to live in Paris.
Career Dalle was working as a model when she met filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix. Beineix cast her in the lead role of the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (released in the UK and the USA as Betty Blue), which received BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and made Dalle a star.
She went on to appear in a series of major roles in French films, including the 1989 film Chimère, which was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
She featured in the 1987 music video for Buster Poindexter's version of "Oh Me Oh My (I'm fool for you Baby)" and in the 1991 music video for "Move to Memphis" by Norwegian band a-ha.
In 1988, Dalle was interviewed by Clive James in "Postcard from Paris", where she said she was tired of Paris and wanted to move to New York.
She starred in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth in 1991.
In 1997, she was cast in The Blackout, her first film made in the United States.
In 2001, Dalle appeared in the controversial film Trouble Every Day, in which she played a compulsive sexual cannibal. She starred in the 2007 film À l'intérieur, in which she played a cruel psychopath stalking a pregnant woman.
Controversies Dalle has been arrested on several occasions for shoplifting, drug possession and assault. She has had run-ins with the law in France and was arrested for alleged drug possession in America. An investigation into a suspected drug trafficking network led to Dalle being questioned in Paris as a witness in 2005.
Interviewed on the French TV programme Divan in 2016, Dalle stated that when she used to work in a morgue with her friends, they sold body parts of corpses, and while on acid, they ate a dead man's ear.
Personal life In 1985, she married the painter Jean-François Dalle, whom she divorced in 1988. She kept his patronym.
After her divorce, she had a brief relationship with lawyer .
In 1994, Dalle met JoeyStarr, a rapper from the French group NTM, and they began a romantic relationship. They remained together for ten tumultuous years. JoeyStarr later said that they had to separate and keep some distance between them because they were a fusional couple. Dalle and JoeyStarr separated in 2005. They remained inseparable afterwards.
In January 2005, while making a film about prison life in Brest, Dalle met Guenaël Meziani, serving a 12-year prison sentence for assaulting and raping his ex-girlfriend. She married him after 24 one-hour visits and spoke on his behalf at hearings for his early release."Women who have killer instincts," The Independent, January 27, 2005Colin Randall, "Actress Defends Rape Suspect" The Daily Telegraph, December 14, 2005 According to a 2015 profile of Dalle, she said the marriage was "a complete disaster" once Meziani was released from prison. Their divorce was finalised in July 2014.
After her second divorce, Dalle was in a relationship with a man named Eddy, a mixed martial arts (MMA) instructor. She then began a relationship with Paul Bichet-Galaup, 32 years her junior. In February 2026, Dalle said that she and JoeyStarr had not talked for two years.
In a 2018 interview Dalle stated she was a practicing Catholic.
Filmography Year Title Role Director Notes 1986 Betty Blue Betty Jean-Jacques Beineix Nominated - César Award for Best Actress On a volé Charlie Spencer ! The Star Francis Huster 1988 The Witches' Sabbath Maddalena Marco Bellocchio 1989 Chimère Alice Claire Devers Les bois noirs Violette Jacques Deray 1990 A Woman's Revenge Suzy Jacques Doillon 1991 Night on Earth Blind Woman Jim Jarmusch 1992 La Belle Histoire Odona Claude Lelouch La Fille de l'air Brigitte Maroun Bagdadi 1994 I Can't Sleep Mona Claire Denis À la folie Elsa Diane Kurys 1996 Désiré Madeleine Bernard Murat Clubbed to Death Saida Yolande Zauberman 1997 The Blackout Annie Abel Ferrara Al límite Elena Eduardo Campoy 1999 Toni Marie Philomène Esposito 2000 La vérité vraie Cathy Fabrice Cazeneuve TV movie 2001 Trouble Every Day Coré Claire Denis H Story The Actress Nobuhiro Suwa 2002 Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard Cécile Cassard Christophe Honoré Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space Tatla Tol Les oreilles sur le dos Monica Xavier Durringer TV movie 2003 Time of the Wolf Lise Brandt Michael Haneke Vendetta Alice Richard Aujard Short 2004 Clean Elena Olivier Assayas The Gate of Sun Catherine Yousry Nasrallah The Intruder Queen of the north Claire Denis Process The Actress C.S. Leigh 2005 Dans tes rêves Ava Denis Thybaud 2006 Tête d'or The Princess Gilles Blanchard 2007 Truands Béatrice Frédéric Schoendoerffer Inside The Woman Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting ActressFright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actress 2008 Les bureaux de Dieu Milena Claire Simon New Wave Anna Gaël Morel TV movie 2009 Domain Nadia Patric Chiha 2011 Jimmy Rivière Gina Teddy Lussi-Modeste De l'encre Mathilde Ekoué & Hamé TV movie Notre Paradis Anna Gaël Morel Livid Lucie's mother Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo 2012 Bye Bye Blondie Gloria Virginie Despentes L'étoile du jour Zohra Sophie Blondy 2013 Punk Teresa Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire TV movie Le renard jaune Béatrice Jean-Pierre Mocky Mildred Lars Kraume You and the Night The Commissioner Yann Gonzalez Myster Mocky présente Henriette Jean-Pierre Mocky TV series (1 Episode) 2014 Among the Living Jeanne Faucheur Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo ABCs of Death 2 The Grandmother Julien Maury Rosenn Yvan Le Moine 2015 Malaterra Suzanne Leroy Jean-Xavier de Lestrade & Laurent Herbiet TV Mini-Series 2017 Chacun sa vie et son intime conviction Claude Lelouch 2018 The Happy Prince Café Manager Rupert Everett 2019 Lux Æterna Béatrice Dalle Gaspar Noé 2023 The Beast in the Jungle The Physiognomist Patric Chiha Le bonheur est pour demain Lucie Brigitte Sy 2024 The Passion According to Béatrice Fabrice Du Welz Docufiction Maldoror Fabrice Du Welz
Theatre Year Title Author Director 2014 Lucrèce Borgia Victor Hugo David Bobée 2019 Elephant Man Bernard Pomerance David Bobée
Music videos Year Title Role Artist 1990s "Move to Memphis" The young woman A-ha 2019 "" One of the characters Indochine 2021 "Cold & Distant" Protagonist Hangman's Chair
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