Jenny Clève

Jenny Clève (3 April 1930 – 17 February 2023) was a French actress.

Biography
Born in Roubaix on 3 April 1930, Clève was the daughter of André Clève and Marie Debode. She left her hometown during World War II and stayed with her father's cousins in Vernou-sur-Brenne. She returned to Roubaix in 1948 and was admitted to the Conservatoire de Roubaix, where she met Claude Talpaert, whom she married on 3 April 1951. The couple had four children: Nadine, Éric, Corinne, and Franck. Her granddaughter, Charlotte Talpaert, also became an actress. On 28 May 2019, she became the godmother of processional giant of Sailly-lez-Lannoy, Jean Gab'Lou.

Clève died in Tourcoing on 17 February 2023, at the age of 92.

Filmography

 * La Chair de l'orchidée (1975)
 * Les Ambassadeurs (1975)
 * F comme Fairbanks (1976)
 * Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976)
 * Calmos (1976)
 * Monsieur Klein (1976)
 * Shadow of the Castles (1977)
 * The Night of Saint Germain des Pres (1977)
 * Like a Turtle on Its Back (1978)
 * Dossier 51 (1978)
 * Mais ou et donc Ornicar (1979)
 * Anthracite (film) (1980)
 * One Deadly Summer (1983)
 * Winter 1960 (1983)
 * La Garce (1984)
 * Code Name: Emerald (1985)
 * La Maison assassinée (1988)
 * Les Enfants du naufrageur (1992)
 * IP5: The Island of Pachyderms (1992)
 * Germinal (1993)
 * Élisa (1995)
 * XY (film) (1996)
 * Lucie Aubrac (1997)
 * XXL (1997)
 * The Children of the Marshland (1999)
 * A Crime in Paradise (2001)
 * Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
 * Arrêtez-moi (2013)
 * Brèves de comptoir (2014)