Joelle Coeur

About Joelle Coeur

During her short four-year career, from 1972 to 1976, French actress Joëlle Coeur appeared in 20 cult erotic and horror films, most made by French director Jean Rollin. Then she finally retired from acting when French films started focusing on hardcore, which had just been legalized. Rollin said the new permissiveness held no interest for her. She never had an issue performing fully nude and in simulated sex scenes, or modeling for nude photos, but she refused to participate in actual sex onscreen, even though other French actresses were doing it.

Before making a career on the big screen, Joëlle first worked as a model. She appears in numerous magazines in France (Nous trois no. 14, Nature et Beauté no. 6) or in the Netherlands (Chick no. 69) and poses for erotic photo novels with sometimes quite daring content.

In the cinema, Joëlle mainly appeared in soft erotic films, very popular in the first half of the 1970s. She is sometimes credited in the credits under her real name.