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This provocative sex kitten had the obvious makings of a superstar blonde bombshell and could have ended up in film history annals as merely a second-rate Brigitte Bardot, but Marina Vlady rose above her sex symbol status and proved she was capable of so much more. In her prime she was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a "Best Actress" award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for her stunning performance in The Conjugal Bed (1963) with Italy's Ugo Tognazzi.
She was born Marina De Poliakoff-Baïdaroff, in Clichy, France on May 10, 1938, the youngest of four acting sisters. Her Russian-born father was a well-established painter in France. While young Marina trained in dance and initially seemed to entertain thoughts of becoming a prima ballerina, she discovered, as did her sisters, a closer kinship to acting. The most outgoing of her siblings, Monica caught the eye of talent agents via more uninhibited roles. Older sister Odile Versois, who possessed a similar feline beauty, was the first of her family to enter pictures. Marina (playing a youthful roller-skater) and another sister Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff made their minor film debuts in Orage d'été (1949) [Summer Storm], which featured Odile. The remaining sister Hélène Vallier was featured in Marina's highly-praised film Penne nere (1952) (Black Feathers).
In 1955, at the ripe young age of 17, Marina met and married director/writer/actor Robert Hossein, who featured her prominently and seductively in a number of his films including The Wicked Go to Hell (1955), as a femme fatale bent on revenge, Pardonnez nos offenses (1956), Double Agents (1959) and, notably, Toi... le venin (1958) [aka Nude in a White Car], which co-starred sister Odile. She had two sons by Hossein but the marriage lasted only a few years.
Gracing both French and Italian productions throughout most of her career, Marina was not shy at playing unsympathetic, even caustic characters, and proved adept at both saucy comedy and edgy drama, appearing for such notable directors as Jean-Luc Godard and Christian-Jaque. Playing opposite some of Europe's finest leading men, she was a vision in loveliness alongside Marcello Mastroianni in Penne nere (1952), a touching WWII drama, she also co-starred with Italy's top character actor Aldo Fabrizi in Too Young for Love (1953). One of her rare English-speaking appearances came with the Orson Welles historical drama Chimes at Midnight (1965).
Marina became a strong social and political activist, notably for women's reproductive rights, into the 1970s. She continued strongly in films with Sapho ou La fureur d'aimer (1971), Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil (1972), Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975), the Hungarian film The Two of Them (1977), The Bermuda Triangle (1978) and L'oeil du maître (1980). As she moved Into the 1980's, the actress turned more and more towards TV work.
Married three times, Vlady was the widow of heralded Russian poet/songwriter/actor Vladimir Vysotskiy, her last husband, who allegedly died of heart failure in 1980 at the age 42 after years of alcohol and drug abuse.
Later films would include Bordello (1985), in which she played a French madam; a smaller role as the wife of hotel manager Philippe Noiret in the comedy Twist again à Moscou (1986); leads in both the Greek drama Anemos stin poli (1996) and the gay-themed French film A Few Days of Respite (2010). She also had a recurring role in the French TV dramedy series Sam (2016).
In her later years, Marina and longtime companion, Léon Schwartzenberg, a leading French-Jewish cancer specialist widely known as a radical political activist, became involved in a number of social injustices. He passed away in 2003. As a writer, she published a book on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and continued performing on stage, including a political one-woman show on one of her books about husband Vysotsky. Marina outlived all her her elder sisters. Odile died in 1980, Helene in 1988 and Olga in 2009.- Actor
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Patrick Poivey was a French actor very active in dubbing, he was notably known for being the regular French voice of Bruce Willis, Kyle MacLachlan, Don Johnson, Gary Cole, and Peter Stormare. He was also the first recurring voice of Tom Cruise and Mickey Rourke in their acting debuts.
As a young actor, he performed on stage, before discovering, thanks to Paul Meurisse, the exercise of dubbing in the early 1970s.
With an immediately identifiable vocal timbre, he lent his voice to some young Hollywood firsts in cinema and television in the 1980s and 1990s: Don Johnson (Miami Vice, Nash Bridges), Emilio Estevez (Young Guns), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives), Mickey Rourke but also Kevin Costner and Kenneth Branagh.
He dubbed Tom Cruise in some of his most popular films (The Color of Money, Top Gun, The Firm, Mission Impossible, Rain Man) but he was best known for being Bruce Willis' "official" voice since the actors' debuts on television in Moonlighting.
He also participated in numerous documentaries, advertisements, and radio coverings as voice-overs, notably for Rire & Chansons and Alouette radios, being the network official voice.
In 1994, he actively engaged in the strike movement of dubbing actors in order to assert their rights on the broadcasting of their work in cinema and on television.
He died from a stroke on June 16, 2020, at the age of 72.- Jacques Mesrine was born on 28 December 1936 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a writer, known for Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008). He died on 2 November 1979 in Porte de Clignancourt, Paris, France.
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Mariane Pearl was born on 23 July 1967 in Clichy, Seine [now Clichy-la-Garenne, Hauts-de-Seine], France. She is a writer, known for A Mighty Heart (2007), PBS NewsHour (1975) and American Morning (2001). She was previously married to Daniel Pearl.- Actor
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Roberto Alagna was born on 7 June 1963 in Clichy-sous-Bois, France. He is an actor and writer, known for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), Tosca (2001) and W.E. (2011). He has been married to Angela Gheorghiu since May 1996. He was previously married to Florence Lancien.- He is the eldest of seven children of parents of Moroccan origin. After studying law, he follows a journalist by training within the Hachette Filipacchi Médias group from 2002, seven years of scoops and gossip, which end in the direction of the photo service. In 2008, he joined the Studio Pygmalion, a coaching structure of actors where he discovered the pleasure of acting.
He learned his craft by making appearances in film and television before writing (with Maddouri Wad) to stage and play his first one-man-SHOW1, FMyLife in 2011 at the Theatre Montmartre Galabru . He then picks up substantial film roles, including The Disintegration Philippe Faucon presented at 68th Venise2 festival, Paulette Jerome Enrico Des Apaches or Nassim Amaouche, but also in television series such as Mafiosa and Transporter.
In 2001, at Oissery in Seine-et-Marne, city where he spent his youth, he became France champion amateur kickboxing, super heavy category and receives for this title Medal of the National Assembly. - Sébastien Floche was born on 19 July 1924 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor, known for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Le Magnifique (1973) and Valmont (1989). He died on 22 May 2021 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
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Fred Chichin was born on 28 April 1954 in Clichy, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France], France. He was an actor and composer, known for The Lovers on the Bridge (1991), Vagabond (1985) and Kung-Fu Master! (1988). He died on 28 November 2007 in Paris, France.- Actor
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- Soundtrack
Doc Gynéco was born on 7 July 1974 in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He is an actor, known for Taxi 3 (2003), Ali Baba (2007) and Le ciel, les oiseaux,... et ta mère! (1999).- Yvon Sarray was born on 18 November 1917 in Clichy-la-Garenne, France. He was an actor, known for Émile Zola ou La conscience humaine (1978), Le deuil sied à Electre (1974) and La caméra explore le temps (1957). He died on 13 February 1990 in Paris, France.
- Gaby Triquet was born on 28 November 1924 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She was an actress, known for Les Misérables (1934), Maria Chapdelaine (1934) and Le scandale (1934). She died on 19 May 2012 in Créteil, Île-de-France, France.
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Born Jacques Maline (Aminel being an anagram of his second name), Geroges Aminel was born to a Parisian mother and a father from Martinique. Being biracial would prove a never-ending problem for someone who aspired to become a great name of the theatre. Georges Aminel started his career very early, at the tender age of 19, as a dumb Polynesian in a 1941 play titled 'Faux Jour'. But all he got for years were minor ethnic roles such an old Negro, an Arab, a Jew, a fanatic native ..., which left him dissatisfied. In 1954 at last he was given the more rewarding part of Bistouri, a Black doctor, in Yves Jamiaque's 'Bistouri'. Acclaimed by the critic, he was later chosen by Jean-Louis Barrault who cast him in classics like 'Le soulier de satin', 'Madame Sans Gêne' and in Shakespeare's 'Henry IV', where he was an impressive Duke of York. And, to crown it all, he was the first Creole actor to enter the famous 'Comédie Française' company. But he resigned in 1972 and as a result, his career declined. Aminel then decided to concentrate on dubbing, in which he had excelled since the early fifties. His deep, powerful, noble voice indeed made him an ideal French substitute for for such giants of the screen as Orson Welles, Yul Brynner, Vittorio Gassman and many many others. He was also a natural choice for African American actors like Yaphet Kotto, Harry Belafonte and mainly James Earl Jones in three 'Star Wars' installments. As Darth Vader, he matched up with Jones. His voice is as unforgettable as his model's. As for his film career, it does not do justice to his talents. His roles are too few and he deserved better. Nevertheless, Aminel's voice will always remain inseparable from a great deal of American and Italian classics for the viewers who have seen them in French version. Georges Aminel died in 2007. He is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.- Françoise Vatel was born on 28 November 1937 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. She was an actress, known for Au théâtre ce soir (1966), Les promesses dangereuses (1956) and Les premiers outrages (1955). She died on 24 October 2005 in Paris, France.
- Louise Marquet was born on 3 August 1871 in Clichy, Seine [now Clichy-la-Garenne, Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress, known for La fin du jour (1939), Une filleule d'Amérique (1920) and La faute des autres (1923). She died on 12 April 1956 in Paris VI, Paris, France.
- Thomas Piketty was born on 7 May 1971 in Clichy, France. He is a writer, known for Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2019), De fractie (2015) and The Price We Pay (2014). He is married to Julia Cagé.
- La Goulue was born on 12 July 1866 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She died on 29 January 1929 in Paris, France.
- Jacques Bodoin was born on 26 March 1921 in Clichy, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He was an actor and writer, known for Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966), Minouche (1969) and L'inspecteur connaît la musique (1956). He was married to Micheline Dax. He died on 8 March 2019 in Dieulefit, Drôme, France.
- Jacques Poustis was born on 22 April 1949 in Clichy, France. He was an actor, known for The Brides of Bourbon Island (2007). He was married to Patricia Tatel and ???. He died on 24 April 2022 in Fleurimont, Saint-Paul, Reunion, France.
- Eric Halphen was born on 5 October 1959 in Clichy, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France.
- Jeanne Rémy was born on 17 February 1881 in Clichy-sous-Bois, France. She was an actress, known for Train de plaisir (1936). She died on 11 May 1961 in Paris, France.
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André Caillat was born on 6 December 1905 in Clichy, France. André is known for La France est un empire (1939) and Paysans de l'Aurès (1950). André died on 17 July 1972 in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, France.- Simone Barillier was mainly a top model but also an occasional actress (nine films, 2 TV films, one musical revue, a few plays). Her 1934 Miss France title no doubt helped her build this multiple career. It looks as if beauty is a guarantee of long life since Simone died at the old of 96.
- Jacques Peuchmaurd was born on 3 March 1923 in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He was a writer, known for La plage de Saint-Clair (1962), Le soleil de Palicorna (1974) and Boîte aux lettres (1983). He died on 21 October 2015 in Houdan, Yvelines, France.
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Olivier Mauffroy was born on 2 April 1957 in Clichy, France. He was an editor, known for La Femme Nikita (1990), The Big Blue (1988) and Association of Wrongdoers (1987). He died on 17 March 2013 in Paris, France.