Christian marquand dominique sanda biography
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French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 646. Photo: Sam Lévin.
A steamy love scene on the beach of St Tropez
Christian Marquand was born in Marseille, in 1927. He was the son of a Spanish father and an Arab mother, and the older brother of director Nadine Trintignantand actor Serge Marquand. The fact that he spoke Spanish, Arabic, French, English and Italian - all learned as a child – later helped his international career.
After school, Marquand studied acting beneath Tania Balachova- one of his classmates was Roger Vadim. Marquand worked on stage from the age of seventeen.
His first film appearance at 21 was a bit part in Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête/Beauty and the Beastin 1946. The following year he had another
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Christian Marquand
Actor Christian Marquand, who appeared in more than 50 films and helmed two pics including 1968’s all-star satire “Candy,” died Nov. 22 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 73.
Born in Marseilles to a father of Arab origin and a Spanish mother, lanky young Marquand studied acting with Tania Balachova, and first made his mark onscreen in two enduring French classics: Jean Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast” in 1946 and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Quai des Orfevres” (Jenny Lamour) in 1947.
Marquand’s aptitude for languages facilitated an international career with performances in French, Spanish, Italian (including a bit part in Visconti’s “Senso,” 1954) and English. In 1956, he appeared in Roger Vadim’s trail-blazing “… And God Created Woman” with Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Louis Trintignant. (Marquand’s sister, director Nadine Trintigna
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Dominique Sanda
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Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne (born 11 March 1948), professionally known as Dominique Sanda, is a French actress and former fashion model.
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Life and career
Sanda was born in Paris, to Lucienne (née Pichon) and Gérard Varaigne. She appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man (with Paul Newman) and Steppenwolf (with Max von Sydow).
In 1993 at the Théâtre de la Commune, in Aubervilliers, France, she played Melitta in Madame Klein (Mrs. Klein by Nicolas Wright), directed by Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman. In 1995 in Italy, she played the Marquise de Merteuil in Les liaisons dangereuses, based on Choderlos de Laclos's novel, directed by Mario Monicelli