Biography
Line Renaud (born 2 July 1928) is a popular French singer, actress and AIDS activist.
Line Renaud was born Jacqueline Ente 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 Loulou Gasté "Sainte-Madeleine" and "Mon âme au diable". Louis Gasté was at that time 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. In 1945, she moved to Paris and got her first gig in Folies Belleville, where she was introduced to Gasté. She was 16, and Gasté was 37. He became her mentor, changing her image and her name.
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.
In the 1980s, she starred in a TV show Telle est Line for Antenne 2 and recorded songs in English and French. At Casino de Paris, she put on a one-off show which retraced her forty-year career. Also, in 1981, she served as an unofficial on-air "guide" for Merv Griffin when he taped "The Merv Griffin Show" in Paris, and in 1982 she was a guest on Perry Como's Christmas special in Paris. In 1989, she toured around Japan as part of a festival which marked the bicentennial of the French Revolution. ...
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Filmography
all 104
Movies 73
self 37
TV Shows 31
Voice 1
Le Prochain voyage (2023)
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là (2022)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (2022)
Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens (2022)
In France with Madonna (2022)
Driving Madeleine (2022)
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost! (2022)
Le Squat (2021)
Archives secrètes (2021)
Knock, Knock, It's Mom! (2021)
I Love You Coiffure (2020)
Les secrets de la belle endormie (2020)
Huguette (2019)
Let's Dance (2019)
Mon Chirac (2019)
Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic (2018)
Muriel Robin, oser être soi... (2018)
Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show (2018)
Family Is Family (2018)
Mentalistes : dans la tête des stars (2018)
Remembering You (2017)
Pleins feux (2017)
Call My Agent! (2015)
La Douce Empoisonneuse (2014)
La voyante (2014)
Belinda and Me (2014)
Murders in... (2013)
Simple question de temps (2012)
Petits arrangements avec ma mère (2012)
Harold et Maude (2012)
La Croisière (2011)
The Great Restaurant II (2011)
Très chère Mathilde (2011)
Santa's Apprentice (2010)
En Cas de Malheur (2009)
Fallen from the Sky (2008)
Le Silence de l'épervier (2008)
Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Fugueuses (2008)
Aller retour dans la journée (2007)
A House of Your Dreams (2006)
Infrarouge (2006)
The Robin Sisters (2006)
The Accursed Kings (2005)
A Cursed Monarchy (2005)
The Courage to Love (2005)
Une famille pas comme les autres (2005)
Le Miroir de l'eau (2004)
Suzie Berton (2004)
Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later (2003)
Chaos (2001)
Doggy Bag (1999)
Belle Maman (1999)
Vivement dimanche (1998)
Vivement dimanche prochain (1998)
À nous deux la vie (1998)
La grande béké (1998)
Une femme d'action (1997)
Blood Sisters (1997)
La Voisine (1997)
Sixième classique (1996)
L'embellie (1996)
Ma femme me quitte (1996)
Les Filles du Lido (1995)
Rendez-moi ma fille (1994)
I Can't Sleep (1994)
Polly West est de retour (1993)
The Sands of Time (1992)
Pleins feux (1992)
Memories of Midnight (1991)
Stars 90 (1990)
My New Partner II (1990)
La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro) (1989)
Sacrée soirée (1987)
Nulle part ailleurs (1987)
Le monde est à vous (1987)
La Chance aux chansons (1984)
Folle Amanda (1983)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
Claude Francois: The Film of His Life (1979)
Fan School (1977)
30 millions d'amis (1976)
Système 2 (1975)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)
Midi Première (1975)
Midi trente (1972)
Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
Cadet Rousselle (1971)
Samedi soir (1971)
À bout portant (1968)
Hully Gully (1964)
The Indestructible (1959)
Discorama (1959)
Mademoiselle et son gang (1957)
La Madelon (1955)
Boom on Paris (1954)
Double or Quits (1953)
Ils sont dans les vignes... (1952)
Paris Still Sings! (1951)
Over the waves (1951)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Une Belle Garce (1948)
Devil and the Angel (1946)
Le Palmier
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1928-07-02 (95 years old)
Birth Nameenté
Birth PlaceNieppe, France
Height1.57-meter
RelationshipsLoulou Gasté (1950-01-01 - 1995-01-01)
MotherSimone Renard
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsJacqueline Enté, Jacqueline Ray
AwardsCommandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit, Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
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