Marina Vlady Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Birth name Marina Catherine De Poliakoff-Baidarov
French nationality
Birth March 10, 1938 (Clichy – France)

BIOGRAPHY
Daughter of Russian emigrant artists (her father is an opera singer and her mother a star dancer), Marina Vlady was born on May 10, 1938 in Clichy. While she intended to follow in her mother’s footsteps by becoming a dancer, she took her first steps in front of the camera in Summer Storm in 1949 alongside one of her sisters, Olga.

First noticed for her great beauty, she shines in a majority of Italian productions ( The Devil’s Daughter , Les Infidèles , Des gosses de riche ). But it was in 1954 that she really stood out in Before the Flood . For her interpretation, she received the Suzanne Bianchetti prize, an award awarded each year by the SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers) to a promising young actress. The following year, when she was only 17, she met Robert Hossein , whom she married. The director directed it four times, in The Bastards Go to Hell (1955), Forgive Our Offenses (1956), Night of the Spies (1959) and You, the Venom (1958). At the same time, the couple, who had two children, appeared in front of the camera of Georges Lampin ( Crime and Punishment in 1956), Jean Valere ( La Sentence in 1959) and Maurice Labro ( Les Canailles in 1960).

Separated from Robert Hossein , in 1960 she played La Princesse de Clèves alongside Jean Marais . This adaptation of Madame de la Fayette ‘s novel earned her the Belgian Femina prize for best actress of the year. In 1963, she definitively proved that she was more than just a physique thanks to Le Lit marital , which allowed her to receive a nomination for the Golden Globes and, above all, to walk away with the prize for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1965, Orson Welles offered him one of his rare English-speaking roles in Falstaff , a character created by Shakespeare . Separated from her second husband, the aviator Jean-Claude Brouillet, she appeared in 1966 in Atout coeur à Tokyo for OSS 117 then in Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle by Jean-Luc Godard .

She subsequently alternated between demanding films and popular comedies. We see her in a Russian film, Lika, the great love of Chekov (1969), Sappho or The fury of love(1971) for which she won a second Femina prize, the comedy Everyone is beautiful, everyone is nice by Jean Yanne (1972), the historical film Let the party begin by Bertrand Tavernier (1975) and Twist again in Moscow (1986). Politically engaged, she was one of the 343 signatories of the “343 sluts” manifesto in 1971. Definitely appreciated in Belgium, she received her third Femina prize for best actress in 1977 for Elles deux and shared the bill with John Huston in a Mexican fantasy film, The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle (1978). The year 1989 allowed him to reunite with Marcello Mastroianni for the third time (after Penne nere and Jours d’amour ) in Splendor by Ettore Scola . At the same time, she became more and more present on the small screen and appeared there regularly until the 2000s. We see her in Les Charmes de l’été (1975), La Chambre des Dames (1983), Condorcet (1989), Dans un grand vent de fleurs (1996) or more recently Victoire ou la pain des femmes (2000) with Marie Trintignant .

Since 2000, she has become increasingly rare on the screens, preferring to devote herself to theater and writing. Among other things, she published her memoirs in 2005, 24 images seconds , and the story Le Fol Enfant in 2009. A jack of all trades, in 2006 she took on the role of singer at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. She sings about her love for Vladimir Vissotski , her third companion who died in 1980, based on her book published in 1978, Vladimir or the Arrested Flight . In 2011, she finally made her comeback to the cinema in A Few Days of Respite , where she plays a woman whose life is turned upside down by her meeting with a homosexual Iranian who fled her country.