- Considered by Orson Welles as "the greatest actress in the world".
- Her only son, Jerome, was seriously injured in a car accident during the shooting of Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960); the driver was Jean-Paul Belmondo, her co-star in that film. The then-ten-year-old Jerome survived the accident to become a successful painter.
- In January of 2000 she walked off the set of the TV series ER (1994).
- After the end of her affair with director Louis Malle (1959), she had a long correspondence with Ingmar Bergman, who developed a film project for her, "L'Amour Monstre". The film was never made, because Moreau couldn't learn Swedish and Bergman couldn't learn French.
- Agreed to be paid in silver plates for her work in Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1965), because of the limited budget.
- Is the only French actress to have been the object of a major retrospective of her work (including 30 films) at the Museum of Modern Art of New York (February-March 1994).
- Vanessa Redgrave named her as co-respondent in her 1967 divorce from director Tony Richardson on grounds of adultery.
- Became world-famous when she starred in Louis Malle's controversial film The Lovers (1958) as a provincial wife who abandons her family for a man she has just met; the film had censorship problems all over the world because of its erotic scenes and Moreau instantly became an international sex symbol.
- Despite her important singing career, she has rather avoided concerts. One notable exception was a Carnegie Hall concert opposite Frank Sinatra in July 1984.
- Is a close friend of Sharon Stone, who presented a 1998 American Academy of Motion Pictures life tribute to her.
- Holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Lancaster, UK.
- Her mother was an English dancer from Lancashire who had come to the Folies-Bergere with the Tiller Girls.
- Has a Paris cinema named after her.
- In 1995 she was chosen #76 by "Empire" magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.
- Is the only actress who has presided twice over the jury of the Cannes Film Festival (in 1975 and 1995).
- For personal reasons, she turned down roles in many major films, including Varinia in Spartacus (1960), eventually played by Jean Simmons; Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967), played by Anne Bancroft; and Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which Louise Fletcher won a Best Actress Academy Award in 1976. She has also been twice replaced by Annie Girardot: in Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and The Piano Teacher (2001).
- In September of 2003 she was robbed of $432,000 in cash and jewels by a bandana-wearing intruder who broke into her Paris apartment.
- In January 2001 she was the first woman to enter the Academie des Beaux-Arts of Paris.
- Orson Welles is the first person Moreau spoke to about directing and the only one who wasn't protective about it.
- Is also a successful singer with a substantial recording career.
- Has co-produced some of her films, like Jules and Jim (1962), Bay of Angels (1963) and Banana Peel (1963).
- In 2006 her performance as Catherine in Jules and Jim (1962) was ranked #80 on "Premiere" Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.
- A heavy cigarette smoker.
- Fluent in italian.
- While her mother supported and aided her early acting career, her father was against it. She had to lead a double life and keep her casting in local plays and her admission to the Comedie Francaise from her father. He discovered the truth when she made the front page of a local newspaper in the wake of the success of a play she had acted in, and he threw her out of the house. They reconciled four years later when he became ill, and he spent the last decade of his life with her taking care of him in the south of France.
- Once offered her Rolls-Royce to a friend who had financial trouble.
- Her teaming with Brigitte Bardot in Louis Malle's Viva Maria! (1965) was one of the major media events of 1965. Thanks to the on-screen chemistry between the two top French female stars of the period, the film became an international hit.
- Was the first French actress to make the cover of "Time" (March 1965).
- In 1948, when she was only 20 years old, she became the youngest full-time member in the history of Comédie Française, France's most prestigious theatrical company.
- Is the president of Equinoxe, an organization that supports new European scriptwriters.
- In December of 1997 she was chosen by "Esquire" magazine as one of "the 100 Best People in the World".
- She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture.
- When she joined the Comedie Francaise, where she performed in 27 plays over four years, she was the troupe's youngest performer.
- In February of 1997 was one of many French film personalities who co-signed a petition calling for civil disobedience in the face of a xenophobic immigration law.
- Her father was Anatole-Désiré Moreau, a restaurateur, while her mother, Katherine Buckley, a dancer who performed at the Folies Bergère, was a native of Oldham, Lancashire, England.
- Was considered for the female lead in El Cid (1961), eventually played by Sophia Loren.
- Her name has been often associated, both socially and professionally, with that of respected French writer / director Marguerite Duras; apart from their close friendship, she starred in two movies based on Duras' novels, Peter Brook's Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) and Tony Richardson's The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967), was directed by Duras in Nathalie Granger (1972), was the narrator in another Duras screen adaptation, The Lover (1992) and even went on to portray Duras in the biopic Cet amour-là (2001).
- Alec Guinness appeared with Moreau late in his career, in A Foreign Field (1993), and later wrote that if they had worked together 30 years earlier, it would have transformed his screen acting, as Guinness always made sure that he was identical in each take, while every time Moreau performed for the camera it was different, "spontaneous and fresh".
- Her father owned a restaurant in Monmartre, Paris, where she spent part of her childhood.
- In 1999 there was a tribute to her at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France.
- Has never appeared in a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
- Signed the manifesto against French abortion laws published by the magazine "Le Nouvel Observateur" on 5 April 1971.
- In June 1997 she was named Doctor of Arts by the City University of New York.
- Is particularly fond of reading and cooking.
- Mother of Jérôme Richard (father: Jean-Louis Richard).
- Made her debut as a stage director with a Geneva and Paris production of Margaret Edson's "Wit" (April 2000).
- Made her debut as an opera director with an Opera National de Paris production of Giuseppe Verdi's "Attila" ( September 2001).
- President of the "Official Competition" jury at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1983.
- Attended the Lycee Edgar Quinet, in Paris.
- Was billed in her early films as "pensionnaire de la Comedie Francaise".
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