Claude Jansac is a French comedy actress. She is known as the organic partner of Louis de Funes in many of his films. She starred in "Wing or Leg", "Gendarme and Gendarmetes", "Oscar".
As soon as he saw Jensac in 1952, the famous Louis de Funes exclaimed that good luck had come with the actress. The artist immediately expressed his desire to shoot the performer in all of his films.
Cinema and happiness in family life
The real name of the actress is Claude Jeanne Malka Zhansak (Zensac). She was born in Asy-en-Multiane on March 1, 1927. Her father was an opera singer. The family broke up when the girl was six. After high school, Claude entered the Paris Conservatory in the department of drama.
During her student days, the girl met Pierre Mondi. In 1952 he became her husband. They parted after a couple of years. Since 1958, Claude became Henri Schmen's personal life. Entrepreneur and actor worked for a Ford automobile company. A child appeared in an artistic family, the son of Frederick.
In the future, he chose for himself a biography of a musician, became a composer. Claude Jensac's son has two children. The acting couple broke up in 1977. In 1989, the performer moved to Normandy, where she remained until the end of her days. In 2005, her autobiographical book was published with the title "My Me … it's easier to say!" The actress died in 2016, on October 27.
For the first time on the stage, Claude appeared in the play "Without Ceremonies". Louis de Funes was the stage partner. In 1974, the actress starred in Mad of Chaion. In 1984, a creative tandem took place with Robert Manuel in "Two Virgins". At the same time, the actress played in the Le Dindon project.
Theatrical career
There were two theaters in Zensac's career. She has played at Marigny since 1977 and at the Edward Seventh Theater. In 2008, the actress reincarnated as a quick-witted investigative secretary in the production of Parrot and Chicken. Claude got a role in 1952 in The Life of a Decent Man.
Twin brothers in life are completely different. Albert is a tycoon, happy in business and completely unhappy in his personal life. Alain is single and not rich. Albert's family life is hateful. He hates boring dinners with his family. Everyone around him suffers from the irritability of the head of the family.
From Alena, on the contrary, cheerfulness gushes out. He is not burdened by work or family. When he has to be completely unbearable, he goes to his brother to ask for money. Having reprimanded his copy for carelessness, the brother realizes that he is jealous. After the sudden death of Alain, Albert decides to impersonate him.
He draws up a will, where he entrusts all the management of affairs to his brother. After changing clothes, the tycoon impersonates Alena. Now he can plunge headlong into the nightlife after work. Albert's personality changes completely. He turns into Alena. But the prim and boring wife of Albert also changes and begins to flirt with her own husband.
After making her debut in the role of a servant, the actress was offered to star in the television series The Camera Explores Time in 1957. A little later, the actress became Françoise from In the Last Five Minutes.
Iconic roles
In 1964 she starred in the comedy film How to Marry a Prime Minister with Michel Boiron as the main character.
However, the most famous were her films with the inimitable Louis de Funes. In 1967, Zensac appeared in the Oscar comedy. An employee of one of the industrial companies is shown in the movie story, who decided to ask the owner for a salary increase. It is necessary to ask the boss's daughter for the hand. In the same year, the actress became Isabelle from "Big Holidays". She again interacted in the frame with the great comedian.
This time the plot developed around the problems that began with Bosquier, the director of a private school. His offspring does not want to go on an exchange program to the UK. In the company of a guest from England, he begins to travel on a yacht. In 1968 Zhansak starred in the comedy "The Gendarme Marries". A year later there was "Frozen".
In the comedy project "Joe", the actress became Sylvia. According to the plot, the writer Antoine must destroy the one who possesses evidence of the once not very welcome behavior of the protagonist's wife. In 1982, Claude became Josephine in The Gendarme and Gendarmetes. In 1996, Zensac starred in the television series Saint-Tropez.
By 2001, she had joined the cast of the national comedy project The Libertines. The main character was the actress Natalie Bay. According to the plot, extreme party girls and fashionistas Patricia and Eddie are accustomed to shock the audience with their antics. They became the cause of the shock of Paris and Woodstock, the admiration of the whole of Ibiza. Both did not miss a single Jean-Paul Gaultier fashion show.
But the nineties are over. Eddie's daughter, a serious and independent Safran, amazed by her mother and her friend. Both are not going to part with crazy parties.
Young people of today have a hard time understanding aging rebels. Both consider themselves, as before, stylish and seductive. The friends are not going to lose heart, they decided to teach the modern generation to have fun until they drop.
Completion of a career
Since 2007, Jensac has been the Odette of the Prophecy of Avignon. A couple of years later, she was invited to the crime comedy "Courier". Its protagonist, courier Sam, needs to fulfill a very urgent order on the wedding day of his bride's sister. In 2016, Claude was the Josette of their telepicture Damocles.
This work became the final one in his film career. Several times, the actress brilliantly reincarnated as the wives of her television and film partner Louis de Funes. More than once she played the wife of the police officer Ludovic Josephine.
The chosen one affectionately called her "goat". Zhensak admitted that after the actor passed away, she stopped watching films with his participation, as it makes her cry.
