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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 2, 1928
Place of Birth
Nieppe, Hauts-de-France, France
Also Known As
- Jacqueline Enté
- Jacqueline Ray
Line Renaud
0.5 Popularity
Biography
Line Renaud (born Jacqueline Ente on 2 July 1928) is a French singer, actress and AIDS activist. In her 80 year career, she has appeared in 86 films and TV films, released 25 albums and 114 singles. She has also appeared in 12 plays and written or co-written approximately 20 books. In 2022, she played the titular character in the film Driving Madeleine. Line Renaud was born in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week but he played the trumpet, on weekends, in a local brass band. Line showed the first signs of her talent in primary school, when at the age of seven she won an amateur competition. During the Second World War, Jacqueline's father was mobilised, spending five years away from the family. During this time, Jacqueline was brought up by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her grandmother had a café in Armentières, where she used to sing for passing soldiers. She auditioned at Conservatoire de Lille, singing songs written by Louis "Loulou" Gasté "Sainte-Madeleine" and "Mon âme au diable", a well-known French composer. At the end of the audition, she was approached by the director of Radio Lille who was looking for a singer. She took the pseudonym of Jacqueline Ray and joined the station singing a repertoire based on the songs by Loulou Gasté. Line Renaud made her national debut on Radio Luxembourg, singing on a Sunday morning program. After signing a contract with Pathe Marconi, she recorded "Ma Cabane au Canada", written by Loulou Gasté, which won le Grand Prix du Disque. She also sang with Yves Montand in the Théâtre de l'Etoile. She toured Europe and Africa extensively, came back to Paris to star at the ABC, and recorded numerous adaptations of American songs such as "Ma petite folie", "Étoile des neiges" and "Le Chien dans la vitrine". In 1954, while performing at Moulin Rouge, she met Bob Hope and subsequently appeared in five episodes of The Bob Hope Show in the US. During this trip, she also sang in the Waldorf Astoria (New York) and the Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles), appeared on Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore and Ed Sullivan shows and recorded with Dean Martin the songs "Relax-Ay-Voo" and "Two Sleepy People". In 1959, she started a four-year run of Plaisir de Paris for Henri Varna and then went on to perform in a Las Vegas show at Dunes from 1963 to 1965. In 1966 she returned to Paris and the Casino de Paris starring in a new show, Desir de Paris. In 1968, she returned to Las Vegas for a number of performances. In France, in 1973 she created an American show which she toured for two years around the country. She then helped Casino de Paris, threatened by closing, by putting on a show called ‘Paris – Line’ with Loulou Gasté, which ran for four years. ... Source: Article "Line Renaud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
6.5
Mère Madeleine en 1970
Résistantes
2025
7.1
Jacqueline
The Next trip
2023
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
2022
6.6
Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
0.0
Self
Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
2022
8.5
Self (archive footage)
In France with Madonna
2022
7.1
Madeleine
Driving Madeleine
2022
5.1
Louis
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
2022
6.0
Self
Johnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock
2022
5.8
Colette
Le Squat
2021
Credits
Résistantes
as Mère Madeleine en 1970
2025
6.5
The Next trip
as Jacqueline
2023
7.1
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.5
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.6
Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
as Self
2022
0.0
In France with Madonna
as Self (archive footage)
2022
8.5
Driving Madeleine
as Madeleine
2022
7.1
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
as Louis
2022
5.1
Johnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock
as Self
2022
6.0
Le Squat
as Colette
2021
5.8
Archives secrètes
as Self (archive footage)
2021
0.0
Knock, Knock, It's Mom!
as Mamoune
2021
5.4
I Love You Coiffure
as Mme Vinard (segment "Le Salon de coiffure")
2020
3.8
Les secrets de la belle endormie
as Self
2020
0.0
Huguette
as Huguette
2019
5.7
Les 40 ans de Starmania
as Self
2019
7.0
Let's Dance
as Nicole
2019
6.5
Mon Chirac
as Self
2019
8.0
Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
as Self
2018
6.4
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
as Self
2018
0.0
Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show
as Self
2018
0.0
Family Is Family
as Suzanne Duquesne, Valentin's mother
2018
5.8
Mentalistes : dans la tête des stars
as Self
2018
6.3
Remembering You
as Mado
2017
7.5
Pleins feux
as Alice Margaux
2017
0.0
Call My Agent!
as Self
2015
7.7
La Douce Empoisonneuse
as Clémence
2014
3.8
La voyante
as Vera
2014
5.0
Belinda and Me
as Jacqueline
2014
3.3
Murders in...
as Gabrielle Sandraz
2013
7.3
Simple question de temps
as Laurence Delcourt
2012
0.0
🎬
Petits arrangements avec ma mère
as Marie-Louise
2012
2.7
Harold et Maude
as Maude
2012
0.0
La Croisière
as Simone
2011
5.0
The Great Restaurant II
as The Lady with the Canary
2011
5.8
Très chère Mathilde
as Mathilde Giffard
2011
6.0
Santa's Apprentice
as Solange Folichon (voice)
2010
6.2
In Case of Bad Luck
as Viviane Guérand
2009
6.4
Fallen from the Sky
as Louise
2008
7.0
Le Silence de l'épervier
as Margot Vivier-Lefort
2008
0.0
Welcome to the Sticks
as Mrs. Bailleul
2008
6.7
Fugueuses
as Claude
2008
9.2
Aller-retour dans la journée
as Élise Villedieu
2006
10.0
A House of Your Dreams
as Tata Suzanne Bailleul
2006
5.7
Infrarouge
as Self
2006
6.0
🎬
The Robin Sisters
as Marie Robin
2006
1.0
The Accursed Kings
as Marie de Hongrie
2005
4.1
A Cursed Monarchy
as Marie de Hongrie
2005
6.0
The Courage to Love
as Line
2005
5.3
Le Miroir de l'eau
as Suzanne Castella
2004
0.0
Suzie Berton
as Suzie Berton
2004
7.0
Our Dream Lives
as Pussycat
2004
2.0
Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later
as Julie
2003
4.9
Live for Love United
as Self
2002
0.0
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Self
2002
0.0
Chaos
as Mamie
2001
6.3
Doggy Bag
as La mère
1999
4.8
Belle Maman
as Nicou
1999
5.0
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
Vivement dimanche prochain
as Self
1998
3.4
À nous deux la vie
as Fanny
1998
8.0
La Grande Béké
as Fleur de Mase de la Joucquerie
1998
10.0
Une femme d'action
as Colette Valier
1997
0.0
Blood Sisters
as Garance
1997
2.3
La Voisine
as Simone Castres
1997
0.0
Sixième classique
as Madame Cotelle
1996
0.0
Ma femme me quitte
as Margot Piquet
1996
4.0
Les Filles du Lido
as Henriette
1995
1.0
Rendez-moi ma fille
as Lou
1994
0.0
I Can't Sleep
as Ninon
1994
6.1
Polly West est de retour
as Polly West
1993
0.0
The Sands of Time
as Mme. Angelis
1992
0.0
Pleins feux
as Adeline Margaux
1992
0.0
Stars 90
as Self
1990
6.2
My New Partner II
as Simone
1990
6.0
La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro)
as Marceline
1989
6.0
Le monde est à vous
as Self
1987
0.0
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
1987
5.1
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
5.6
🎬
Matin Bonheur
as Self
1987
0.0
La Chance aux chansons
as Self
1984
4.0
Folle Amanda
as Amanda
1983
0.0
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Fan School
as Self
1977
7.2
30 millions d'amis
as Self
1976
5.8
🎬
Système 2
as Self
1975
0.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Midi Première
as Self
1975
10.0
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Cadet Rousselle
as Self
1971
0.0
Cadet Rousselle
as Self - Co-Host
1971
0.0
🎬
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
À bout portant
as Self
1968
8.0
Hully Gully
as Self
1964
0.0
The Indestructible
as Liliane Robustal
1959
5.0
Discorama
as Self
1959
0.0
Mademoiselle and Her Gang
as Agnès Bourdieux
1957
6.0
La Madelon
as Madeleine Thuilier aka 'La Madelon'
1955
4.3
Boom on Paris
as Self
1954
5.4
Double or Quits
as The singer
1952
1.0
Ils sont dans les vignes...
as Rose Filhol
1952
5.0
Paris Still Sings!
as Self
1951
0.0
Over the waves
as Self
1951
0.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Une Belle Garce
1947
0.0
Devil and the Angel
as Cabaret singer
1946
5.4
🎬
Le Palmier
N/A
0.0