Paule Emanuele

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Paule Emanuele
Born
Paule-Marie Christophe

(1927-05-14) 14 May 1927 (age 96)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • voice actress
Years active1951–present
Known forThe French version voice of Elizabeth Taylor and Lois Maxwell
Spouse Jean-Claude Michel (died 1999)
Children3
Relatives Françoise Christophe (sister)

Paule-Marie Christophe (born 14 May 1927) is a French actress, voice actress and comedian. Her voice was used in several animated and live-actions films to dub actresses that included Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Lauren Bacall and Lois Maxwell. [1]

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Life and career

Emanuele was born on 1927 in Fontenay-aux-Roses. She began her career on stage playing in various dramas [2] by greats dramaturges like Jean Marsan, Noël Coward, Diego Fabbri etc. [3] She appeared in cinema playing supporting roles in movies such as Desperate Decision (1952), The Soft Skin (1964) [4] and The Weeding Ring (1971). [5]

Later she began dubbing foreign films in the French language, [6] of which the most well-known was actress Lois Maxwell in the role of Miss Moneypenny in all the James Bond film series. Other different names that she has dubbed have been Elizabeth Taylor in The Blue Bird , Boom!, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Night Watch. Shelley Winters in Bloody Mama , A Patch of Blue . Lauren Bacall in Sex and the Single Girl and Harper. [7]

For Disney classic animated films [8] she voice Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, [9] Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp , [10] Flora in Sleeping Beauty [11] and Big Mama in The Fox and the Hound (1981). [12]

Personal life

She was the younger sister of actress Françoise Christophe. [13] She married French actor Jean-Claude Michel until his death in 1999. [14] They had three children.

Filmography

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