- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 21, 1937
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- June 26, 2019
Édith Scob
Édith Scob (October 21, 1937 – June 26, 2019) was a French film and theatre actress, best known for her role as the daughter with a disfigured face in Eyes Without a Face (1960). Scob was born Édith Helena Vladimirovna Scobeltzine, the granddaughter of a Russian Army general and White Russian émigré. Her father was an architect and her mother a journalist. Her elder brother, Michel Scob (1935–1995), was a French cycling champion and Olympian. At age 14, she underwent treatment for anorexia. Her love of literature inspired an interest in theatre. Scob was studying French at the Sorbonne and taking drama classes when she was cast in her first role. She and her husband, composer Georges Aperghis, have two sons, Alexander (born 1970) and Jerome (born 1972), both writers. Scob died in Paris on June 26th, 2019. No cause of death was given. Scob made her debut in theater in 1958 with the pl…
Filmography
movieNo Gods No Masters
2025 · La grand-mère de Laure
movieAmor maman
2019 · Edith
movieLove at Second Sight
2019 · Gabrielle, the grandmother
tvTransfers
2017 · Alexandra
movieThe Dunce
2016 · Sarah
movieThings to Come
2016 · Yvette
movieWicked Game
2016 · Madeleine de Lassay
movieFamily for Rent
2015 · Madame Delalande
tvAccusé
2015 · Colette
movieGemma Bovery
2014 · Madame de Bressigny
movieTaprobana
2014 · L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan
movieAn Eye for Beauty
2014 · Edwige
movieThe Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
2014 · Henriette
movieEnnui Ennui
2013 · La mère de Cléo
The French Trilogy
movieThe French Trilogy
2013 · Self
movieDRIVE IN Holy Motors
2013 · Self
movieElectra, for Instance
2013 · The choir and the coryphaeus
movieHorror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012 · Self
Clara s'en va mourir
movieClara s'en va mourir
2012 · Claras Mutter
movieClay
2012 · Old Lady
movieHoly Motors
2012 · Céline
movieUne vie française
2011 · Claire Blick
movieA Butterfly Kiss
2011 · Madeleine
movieThe Long Falling
2011 · Mme Talbot
movieRetour à Mayerling
2011
Nova Eva
movieNova Eva
2010 · Eda Baykan
movieLe garçon avec les cheveux dans les yeux
2009
movieLes fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
2009 · Self
movieYou Will Be Mine
2009 · Mademoiselle Lainé
movieSummer Hours
2008 · Hélène
movieDidine
2008 · Madame Mirepoix
movieHeartbeat Detector
2007 · Lucy Jüst
movieSuzanne
2007 · Mado
movieEcho
2007 · The caretaker
movieKomma
2006 · Hélène Brückner
movieA Truck Under Repair
2006 · Mathilde
movieThe Ring Finger
2005 · La dame du 223
movieThe Lost Domain
2005 · Mme Chantal
movieLes vamps fantastiques
2003 · Self
movieThat Day
2003 · Leone
movieBon Voyage
2003 · Mme Arbesault
movieMan on the Train
2002 · Manesquier's Sister
tvSœur Thérèse.com
2002 · Mère supérieure
movieVidocq
2001 · Sylvia
movieSavage Souls
2001 · Première femme veillée
movieDu côté des filles
2001 · Fanette
movieBrotherhood of the Wolf
2001 · Mme de Morangias
movieThe Dark Room
2000 · The widow
movieComedy of Innocence
2000 · Laurence
movieOf Woman and Magic
2000 · Mme Weygand - la mère de Claire
movieFidelity
2000 · Diane
movieTime Regained
1999 · Oriane de Guermantes
movieVenus Beauty Institute
1999 · La cliente aux taches sur les mains
movieAn Air So Pure
1997 · Mlle Sophie
movieCasa de Lava
1995 · Edith
movieJoan the Maid II: The Prisons
1994 · Jeanne de Béthune
movieLoonies at Large
1993 · Madame Toussaint
movieLa fable des continents
1991 · Etnóloga
movieThe Lovers on the Bridge
1991 · Couple in car
movieRue du Bac
1991 · Judith
movieOne Can Always Dream
1991 · Solange de Boylesve
movieRadio corbeau
1989 · Mme Michel, la libraire
movieCasting
1983 · Charles's wife
movieOne Deadly Summer
1983 · Doctor
movieA Thousand Billion Dollars
1982 · Madame Bronsky
movieLe Sang des Atrides
1981 · La voyante
movieLe Dernier Mélodrame
1979 · Lilette
movieThe Suspended Vocation
1978 · Mère Angélique 1
movieTo Each His Hell
1977 · La folle
tvLa Poupée sanglante
1976 · Marquise de Coulteray
movieThe Acrobat
1976 · Valentine
movieErica Minor
1974 · Marianne
movieLa tête
1973 · Voices (voice)
movieThe Old Maid
1972 · Edith, Monod's Wife
movieLove Me Strangely
1971 · Sylvie Revent
La Mort de Danton
movieLa Mort de Danton
1970 · Lucile Desmoulins
movieThe Milky Way
1969 · Virgin Mary
movieHaschisch
1968 · Actress
movieAn Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
1967 · Alice Brent
movieThomas the Impostor
1965 · l'infirmière
Le Passage
movieLe Passage
1965
movieFantasmagorie
1964 · The woman
movieJudex
1963 · Jacqueline Favraux
movieTherese
1962 · Anne De La Trave
movieThe Burning Court
1962 · Marie D'Aubray Boissand
movieEmile's Boat
1962 · Claude Larmentiel
movieAssassin in the Phonebook
1962 · Jenny
movieLe Bel Âge
1960 · Edith
movieEyes Without a Face
1960 · Christiane Génessier
movieLine of Sight
1960 · Pascale
movieHead Against the Wall
1959 · The singing mad