Juliette Mayniel
Juliette Mayniel | |
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Born | |
Died | 21 July 2023 San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico | (aged 87)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1958–1978 |
Partner(s) | Vittorio Gassman (1964–1968) |
Children | Alessandro Gassmann |
Relatives | Leo Gassmann (grandson) |
Juliette Mayniel (22 January 1936 – 21 July 2023) was a French actress. She appeared in more than 30 films and television shows between 1958 and 1978. At the 10th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in the film The Fair.[1]
Life and career
The daughter of French peasants, Mayniel grew up in an isolated village. Her parents' country house became the Allied headquarters during World War II.[2]
Her feature film debut was Les Cousins. The film's director and producer, Claude Chabrol, writes in his autobiography that he discovered her in an advertisement film for soap.[3]
From 1964 to 1968 she was the partner of the Italian actor Vittorio Gassman with whom she had a son, Alessandro, an actor too. She lived in Mexico.[2] Mayniel died on 21 July 2023, at the age of 87.[4]
Selected filmography
- Les Cousins (1959)
- The Fair (1960)
- Eyes Without a Face (1960)
- The Trojan Horse (1961)
- Landru (1963)
- Ophelia (1963)
- Because, Because of a Woman (1963)
- Amori pericolosi (1964)
- Assassination in Rome (1965)
- L'Odissea (1968)
- Listen, Let's Make Love (1969)
- Flatfoot (1973)
- The Bloodstained Shadow (1978)
References
- ^ "Berlinale: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ a b ""Papa Vittorio made me become a bartender as a punishment. My mother? At 86 he is in Mexico and we talk to each other by email »- time.news". Time News. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ Chabrol, Claude (1976). Et pourtant je tourne. Paris: Ramsay. p. 142. ISBN 2-84041-012-5.
- ^ "Morta la madre di Alessandro Gassmann, Juliette Mayniel". la Repubblica (in Italian). 21 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
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