At 93, actress Andrée Damant was also known to the general public for having played in “the Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain”, recalls “Le Parisien”.
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C’is a fading familiar face from the small and big screen. This Friday, December 9, The Parisian revealed the death of Andrée Damant, at the age of 93, which occurred on Wednesday in a Paris hospital. In recent years, Andrée Damant had been noticed above all for her occasional participation in the short series Scenes of households, broadcast on M6. In the 1990s, she participated in Yves Robert’s film The glory of my father.
Before settling on television, she had made her first appearance on the big screen in 1971, in It only happens to others, directed by Nadine Trintignant. In 2000, she was on the bill of Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain, signed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. A film which will obtain, in 2002, four Césars, including that of the best film. Six years earlier, she had appeared in Mathieu Kassovitz’s film Hatredwhich had interested 2 million spectators in dark rooms.
From the big screen to the small skylight
Since the 2010s, she was regularly on the small screen. She had played Julienne Vidal in the series recently removed from the grids of France 3 programs More beautiful life. At the same time, viewers were able to see her in the series Scenes of households, in which she occasionally played Aunt Odette. On Twitter, actor Frédéric Bouraly (José, in the M6 series) greeted the actress by recalling a memory of filming. “I’ve never been so affectionately treated as a crrrreeeetin.” »
Since 2021, she played the role of granny Berthe in the series The Adventures of Aytl Jensen. On the same social network, the Egyptian actor paid tribute to his “cinema grandmother”. “I have no words to express my pain. I am so sad to hear this news,” he said. The funeral of Andrée Damant is scheduled for Tuesday, December 13, in Villetaneuse (Seine-Saint-Denis), indicated the agent of the actress to our colleagues.