Marie Laforêt

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1939-10-05 (80 years old)

Deathday

2019-11-02

Place of Birth

Soulac-sur-Mer, Gironde, France

Marie Laforêt

Biography

Marie Laforêt (born 5 October 1939 - November 2, 2019) is a French singer and actress. In 1978, she moved to Geneva, Switzerland and acquired Swiss citizenship. Her career began accidentally in 1959 when she replaced her sister at the last minute in a French radio talent contest Naissance d'une étoile (birth of a star) and won. Director Louis Malle then cast the young starlet in the film he was shooting at the time, Liberté, a project he finally abandoned, making Laforêt's first appearance on screen opposite actor Alain Delon in René Clément's 1960 drama Plein Soleil. After this film she became very popular and interpreted many roles in the...

Acting

1998

Jeudi 12

as Françoise Gamelin

1960

Purple Noon

as Marge Duval

1964

Male Hunt

as Gisèle

1984

Happy Easter

as Sophie Margelle

1987

Sale destin

as Marthe Marboni

1997

Heroines

as Sylvie

1965

1984

The Vultures

as Hélène Laroche-Fréon

1965

The Blue Panther

as Marie-Chantal

1972

Tom Thumb

as La Reine

1982

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

as Rose, Joeuf's wife (uncredited)

1997

1967

Jack of Diamonds

as Olga Vodkine (as Marie Laforet)

1963

Rat Trap

as Maria

1992

Who Wants to Kill Sara?

as La madre di Sara

1987

1961

The Red and the Black

as Mathilde de La Môle

1990

1985

Le Pactole

as Greta Rousselet

1962

Dark Journey

as Angèle

1997

Love, Math and Sex

as Pétra la vérité

1961

Saint-Tropez Blues

as Anne-Marie Brémond

1965

The Ghostly Rental

as Miss Diamond

1996

1961

Famous Love Affairs

as Mlle Georges

1990

The Miser

as Contessa Isabella Spinosi

2008

God's Offices

as Martine

2010

Dispositif 47 - The Second Death

as Self (archive footage)

1995

Women

as Mother of Mary

1979

Cop or Hood

as Edmonde Puget-Rostand

1962

Los 4 Golpes

as Complice n°2

1968

Kean - Roi de théâtre

as La comtesse Elena de Koefeld

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