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Stephane Audran began her career in theatre in the 1950s before moving to film
She won a best actress BAFTA in 1987 and was in two other Oscar-winning films
Thomas Chabrol, her son by director Claude Chabrol, said she had been unwell
She was taken to hospital 10 days ago but died after being allowed to go home

By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline and Afp

Published: 10:24 EDT, 27 March 2018 | Updated: 11:43 EDT, 27 March 2018

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Stephane Audran, a BAFTA award-winning French actress who also starred in two Oscar-winning films has died at the age of 85.

Audran, who was born in 1932 in Versailles, got her start starring in stage productions in the 1950s before her debut film role in 1957.

Her first major role was in 1959 film Les Cousins under director Claude Chabrol, who she married in 1964 following the birth of their son, Thomas, the year before.

Stephane Audran, a BAFTA award-winning French actress best known for her role in Babette's Feast, has died aged 89 after an illness, her son has said

Audran got her start on stage before her first film in 1957. She married director Claude Chabrol in 1964 and the pair's films made her famous, including 1969 Femme Infidele (pictured)

Audran had one son with Claude, named Thomas, before the pair divorced in 1980. It was Thomas who announced her death, saying she had been taken to hospital 10 days ago but returned home before passing away (pictured left in 2009 and right in 1988)

The pair would collaborate many times over the coming decades until divorcing in 1980 just as her international career was taking off.

She is best known for her role in Oscar-winning film Babette's Feast, in 1989.

Thomas told AFP: 'She had been ill for some time. She had been in hospital for 10 days and she had returned home. She died peacefully at around 2 am.'

She won best actress at the Berlin film festival in 1968 for playing a bisexual woman in 'Les Biches' (The Hinds) and her first Bafta nomination for her repressed schoolteacher in another Chabrol thriller, 'Le Boucher' (The Butcher).

She came to the attention of international audiences with roles in Sam Fuller's acclaimed war film, 'The Big Red One', and British TV series 'Brideshead Revisited'.

Despite their divorce, Chabrol (right) and Audran would collaborate on several more films throughout their lives, including 1987 movie L'Escargot Noir (pictured)

After gaining the notice of international audience Audran starred in several foreign productions, including British TV series Brideshead Revisited

Audran was praised as a 'magnetic presence, whose intelligence and technique profoundly marked French cinema' (pictured here in 1968 film Les Bitches)

Audran was also briefly married to another French acting legend, Jean-Louis Trintignant, who she divorced before marrying Chabrol.

Frederique Bredin, head of the French National Cinema Centre (CNC) led to the tributes to an actress whose 'magnetic presence, intelligence and technique profoundly marked French cinema.

'She had a great elegance and mystery about her, a casualness and a complexity at the same time,' she added.

'Stephane was a very good actor. She was brilliant at playing free and independent women like herself,' said French director Jean-Pierre Mocky, who directed her in 'Les Saisons du plaisir' (The Seasons of Pleasure) in 1988.

'Lots of directors fell in love with her,including Chabrol, for whom she was his key actress as well as his wife,' he added.