Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19526
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Aurore Clément represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 52 years in, and Aurore is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Aurore Clément appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aurore. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the clearest case: a film rated 8.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, mystery, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alice Winocour, Rebecca Zlotowski, Patrice Leconte and others, Aurore Clément helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) as Lady on Pier (uncredited) · Apocalypse Now (1979) as Roxanne Sarrault · Paris, Texas (1984) as Anne
Career snapshot
Ranked #19526 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1974–2026
Career length
52 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Most frequent director
Alice Winocour
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Alice Winocour
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.8
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1980s
7.9 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Paris, Texas — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
8.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lacombe, Lucien.
Most productive era
2020s
5 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1970s | 1980s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.93 films | 7.91 film | 6.71 film | 6.21 film | 4.55 films |
| Thriller | — | — | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Crime | — | — | — | — | 5.51 film |
| Romance | — | — | — | 6.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1974Lacombe, Lucien
Where our catalogue meets this career, as France Horn.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1975One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
11 of 11 films
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
Directed by Miloš Forman
as Roxanne Sarrault
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
as France Horn
Directed by Louis Malle
as Duchesse de Char
Directed by Sofia Coppola
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Lady on Pier (uncredited)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lady on Pier (uncredited) gives Aurore Clément a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Roxanne Sarrault
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Performance score8.1
Apocalypse Now asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roxanne Sarrault is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anne
Paris, Texas (1984)
Performance score7.9
Paris, Texas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anne is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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France Horn
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Performance score7.1
Lacombe, Lucien asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. France Horn is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
Start here. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the clearest statement of what Aurore Clément does — accessible, 135 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Aurore at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Keeps the drama register of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but asks for a colder reading of it.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Keeps the war register of Lacombe, Lucien but asks for a colder reading of it.
Paris, Texas (1984)
Keeps the drama register of Apocalypse Now but asks for a colder reading of it.
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Keeps the drama register of Paris, Texas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Louis Malle
Director
1 film together
Notably Lacombe, Lucien
Miloš Forman
Director
1 film together
Notably One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Apocalypse Now
Wim Wenders
Director
1 film together
Notably Paris, Texas
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Marie Antoinette
Luca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together
Notably A Bigger Splash
Patrice Leconte
Director
1 film together
Notably Maigret
Rebecca Zlotowski
Director
1 film together
Notably A Private Life
Alice Winocour
Director
1 film together
Notably Couture
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Miloš Forman
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Apocalypse NowWim Wenders
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paris, TexasSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marie AntoinetteLouis Malle
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lacombe, LucienAlice Winocour
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CoutureLuca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Bigger SplashPatrice Leconte
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaigretRebecca Zlotowski
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Private LifeSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Bigger Splash
as Mireille
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Aurore Clément has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
52 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Bigger Splash
as Mireille
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Private Life
as Perle Friedman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Apocalypse Now
as Roxanne Sarrault
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Apocalypse Now
as Roxanne Sarrault
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
as Lady on Pier (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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