Celebrity Biographies
Colo Tavernier
Born to a Spanish mother and a father of Irish descent, she wrote scripts for several French filmmakers, including two of the most important, Claude Chabrol and Bertrand Tavernier, her husband. Colo Tavernier O’Hagan passed away on June 13, 2020, at age 75, as a result of cancer. “As a screenwriter, she always chose strong stories and put a lot of herself into them, managing to make them universal,” recalled Thierry Frémaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival. “Life separated us, but I feel its absence. She encouraged me and made me grow,” Tavernier commented.
Born in 1945 in the United Kingdom, Claudine O’Hagan did not like her first name since she was little, so she quickly adopted the nickname Colo. “Awaken closeness and immediate intimacy,” she assured. At the age of twenty she went to live in Paris, where she maintained a very close relationship with a couple of friends of her parents, and she fell in love with her son, Bertrand Tavernier , whom she married. Both had two children also linked to the world of cinema, the screenwriter Tiffany Tavernier , and the director Nils Tavernier .
For her husband, she wrote Un domingo en el campo , for which she won the César award for best script, La pasión de Béatrice , Daddy Nostalgie and La carnaza , and participated in Around Midnight .
She was also the author of Asunto de mujeres , for Claude Chabrol , and worked for Denys Granier-Deferre , José Pinheiro , Daniel Vigne and Helma Sanders .