
One could have thought Lyne Chardonnet had been blessed by the gods and would live a long successful happy life. For she really had everything to make it. A wasp-waisted blond-haired girl of radiant beauty, with a good drama training, she should have become a movie star and she would have been one if she had been born twenty years before, that is before the French New Wave set new standards, when ingénues like her were still in demand. Well, she WAS given one or two parts which gave her the opportunity to shine, such as the Jacotte she nicely portrayed in Michel Deville's elegant 'Benjamin' alongside Pierre Clémenti as virgin Benjamin and Michel Piccoli as his mentor (1967), or tragic Marie Vetsera's younger sister in Terence Young's version of 'Mayerling' (1968). However, despite this encouraging debut, roles soon dwindled to next to nothing: a few brief appearances as a blond hostess, a blond secretary or even as a (blond?) nun! Lyne Chardonnet sure deserved better. She had born in Paris in the last years of World War II to a fakir, Léopold Chardonnet, and his wife, Ellen Shapiro, of Irish origin. At the age of five, Lyne was already taking dancing lessons.

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
TV • 1958

At Theatre Tonight
TV • 1966

At Theatre Tonight
TV • 1966

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
TV • 1967

Les Jeux de 20 heures
TV • 1976

Un curé de choc
TV • 1974

Claudine
TV • 1978

Mayerling
MOVIE • 1968

Three Men to Kill
MOVIE • 1980

The Toy
MOVIE • 1976

Les Sept de l'escalier 15
TV • 1967

The Tattoo
MOVIE • 1968

Dracula and Son
MOVIE • 1976

Das Blaue Palais
TV • 1974

Chanel Solitaire
MOVIE • 1981

Clerambard
MOVIE • 1969

Les Hommes de Rose
TV • 1978

The War Is Over
MOVIE • 1966