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Renée Jeanne Falconetti

1892 - 1946

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Renée Jeanne Falconetti (21 July 1892 – 12 December 1946), sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Renée Maria Falconetti, or simply Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her acclaimed role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent The Passion of Joan of Arc and subsequent mysterious and enigmatic death. There is little recorded information about her life and career on the internet, and much of the existing information about her life is contradictory. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Renée Jeanne Falconetti is the 3,640th most popular actor (down from 3,618th in 2019), the 3,966th most popular biography from France (down from 3,963rd in 2019) and the 234th most popular French Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 3,640 out of 13,578Before her are Dominic West, Stanley Baker, Jacques Lecoq, Henry Travers, Sylvia Chang, and Jarl Kulle. After her are Úrsula Corberó, Lew Ayres, James Arness, Olivia Rodrigo, Jacques Sernas, and Lazar Ristovski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 193Before her are Fritz Kortner, Alexander Chervyakov, Artur Rodziński, Ugo Betti, Otto Fahr, and Luis Trenker. After her are Moisei Ginzburg, Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues, Arvo Aaltonen, Julius Hirsch, Antonio María Barbieri, and Jason Robards Sr.. Among people deceased in 1946, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 149Before her are W. C. Fields, Ada Adler, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Olivér Halassy, Blanche Bingley, and Louis Bachelier. After her are Federico Laredo Brú, Moisei Ginzburg, Henri Le Fauconnier, Harry Edwin Wood, Rafael Erich, and Amir Hamzah.

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In France

Among people born in France, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 3,966 out of 6,770Before her are Marcel Jouhandeau (1888), Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910), Jacques Lecoq (1921), Edmond Frémy (1814), Guy Bonnet (1945), and Paul Fort (1872). After her are Louis Hémon (1880), Marc Levy (1961), Henri Decoin (1890), André Schwarz-Bart (1928), André Labatut (1891), and Louis Vicat (1786).

Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Renée Jeanne Falconetti ranks 234Before her are Anny Duperey (1947), Mathilda May (1965), Hélène Vincent (1943), Michael Vartan (1968), Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (1920), and Jacques Lecoq (1921). After her are Jean-Pierre Darroussin (1953), Corinne Marchand (1931), Frédéric Diefenthal (1968), Roger Carel (1927), Richard Berry (1950), and Victor Lanoux (1936).