Lilyan Chauvin

Known for ActingBorn 1925-08-06Died 2008-06-26Paris, Île-de-France, France

French character actress Lilyan Chauvin may be one of those actors or actresses whose face you know without knowing their names. Chauvin was a long time veteran of the European stage, and was adept at playing strict, but sometimes loving characters. To horror fans, she might be best known as the sinister Mother Superior in Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), but her career started back in the 1950s when she was plucked from the stage to appear in small minor roles in motion pictures. One notable film was with John Wayne in North to Alaska (1960). For about thirty years, Chauvin was one of the busiest character actresses in Hollywood, appearing in over forty films as well as on television. Her many film credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Predator 2 (1990), No Place to Hide (1992), Universal Soldier (1992) as Jean-Claude Van Damme's mother, and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002) with Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.Read more

Movies & web series

The Man Called X

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story

Beyond Reason

Flying High

Malcolm in the Middle

Friends

The X-Files

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Peter Tchaikovsky Story

Illusion Infinity

Catch Me If You Can

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

ER

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Frasier

Panic!

Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder

The Man Who Wasn't There

Murder, She Wrote

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Masquerade

The Pretender

Perry Mason

Mission: Impossible

The Bob Newhart Show

Magnum, P.I.

The Walter Winchell File

Cafe Americain

The Facts of Life

Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film

McCloud

Alias

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

Kaz

Duty Dating

Earth 2

Cool Million

Once Upon a Dead Man

To Rome with Love

Daniel Boone

Hart to Hart

Yours, Mine and Ours

Maverick

Ugly Betty

Mannix

Silk Stockings

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Universal Soldier