
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.

The Tattoo
1968 · as Valérie Mézeray, fille de Félicien

Mayerling
1968 · as Hannah Vetsera

The Toy
1976 · as Miss Blond

Three Men to Kill
1980 · as L'infirmière au dossier

The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968 · as Jacotte

Les coucous
1978 · as Barbara

Chanel Solitaire
1981 · as Young Nun

Dracula and Son
1976 · as infirmière

The War Is Over
1966 · as The Pretty Blonde (uncredited)

My Uncle Benjamin
1969 · as Arabelle Minxit

Qui êtes-vous monsieur Renaudot ?
1972 · as Louise de Mascon

Pas moral pour deux sous
1971 · as Doris Chalmont

One-Eyed Men Are Kings
1974

Une merveilleuse journée
1980 · as Geneviève

Bruno: Sunday's Child
1969 · as Valérie

Clerambard
1969 · as Brigitte Galuchon

A Time for Loving
1972 · as Bar Girl

The Egg
1972 · as Charlotte Berthoullet