French-Austrian actress Roxane Duran was new to me when she played the Comtesse de Provence in the recent Marie Antoinette series. I was surprised that when I looked her up, she’s actually done a substantial number of frock flicks! She’ll be acting in the upcoming “Vienna Game,” set during the 1814 Congress of Vienna, as well as “The Bitter End,” about Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. So, let’s look back!
Anna in The White Ribbon (2009)
A slow but incredibly moving story set in Germany right before World War I and shot in black and white.
Soeur Agnes in The Monk (2011)
A gothic thriller set in a monastery in 17th-century Spain.
Rosalie in Augustine (2012)
A love affair between a 19th-century French neurologist and his patient; based on a true story.
The Princess in Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
A German merchant starts a rebellion against the state in 16th-century Germany. Another based on a true story!
Mary Seton in Mary Queen of Scots (2013)
She played one of Queen Mary‘s many Scottish ladies-in-waiting who were all named Mary in this French biopic.
Clara Rilke-Westhoff in Paula (2016)
A biopic about German Expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). Westhoff was a fellow painter and sculptor.
Edith Wellspacher in Clash of Futures (2018)
A docu-drama about the lives of various Europeans during the period between world wars I and II.
Lisbeth in Narcissus and Goldmund (2020)
An adaptation of a German novel set sometime in the medieval period, about a man who wanders around looking for the meaning of life.
Anais in The Cursed (2021)
A French village is threatened by a werewolf in 19th-century France.
Marguerite in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
An English cleaning lady goes to Paris to buy a Dior dress in 1957. Duran is in the scenes at the couture house.
Cécile in Cristóbal Balenciaga (2024)
A Spanish TV series about the fashion designer, who in 1937 presented his first Paris collection.
Madeleine Eparvier in Interview with the Vampire (2022-)
The TV series adaptation of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series. Madeleine is a dressmaker who becomes Claudia’s companion.
Lamballe in The Flood (2024)
The final period of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette‘s lives, after the French Revolution has begun. The Princesse de Lamballe was one of the queen’s attendants and close friends.
Josephine in Marie Antoinette (2022-)
The TV bio-series about French queen Marie-Antoinette. Duran plays the Comtesse de Provence, one of the queen’s key enemies in this version (much more so than in real life).
Which is your favorite of Roxane Duran’s many frock flicks roles?
I must admit to being extremely amused after one realised that Mme Duran had appeared in not one but TWO Marie Antoinette productions (and in very different roles), after briefly wearing an expression of the utmost confusion,
I have to admit that something about Ms Duran makes me want to see more of her – she’s been blessed with one of those faces that are fascinating without being classically beautiful (and which seems to be able to fit in just about any period milieu, no questions asked).
Fascinating face without being classically beautiful – agreed!
loved her in Marie Antoniette, IwtV and Cristóbal Balenciaga where she played a German wife married to a Nazi occupant, her mother is Austrian so she’s fluent in German and it fits the charcter
Thanks for clarifying!
The only one of those films/series I’ve seen all the way through is Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, but Roxane really has the most marvelous face. She looks as though she’s come straight out of a medieval altarpiece or off the stone face of a medieval sculpture. I imagine her in a henin and houppelande. It’s understandable that she’s in so many period films.
With regard to your original post: Put that young lady in a costume out of Chivalric Romance and I may actually have to find a ford with a good, sturdy tree nearby and hang the shields of those who attempt to cross there from the branches of that tree in the name of My Lady.
Which might well embarrass everyone concerned, since Ms Duran might not appreciate such an old-fashioned romantic gesture.
On a more serious note, I suspect she could do something worthwhile with the role of Elizabeth the First: she’s certainly got the proper look for the Tudor Dynasty.
Her face is like something straight out of a painting.
Oh, dear. I know I started watching Age of Uprisings, but I don’t think I finished it. Mads Mikkelssen looked hot as ever (thanks for the shirtless pic!), but it was sooo dreary. I’d forgotten about the recent remake of Miss Harris Goes to Paris; that’s a movie I want to see. I crashed of Interview with the Vampire after season one, so I never saw this actress as Claudia’s companion, but all the reviews I’ve read have commented favorably on their storyline in season two.
She reminds a lot of Saoirse Ronan.