Marina Vlady
Template:Distinguish Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French film and TV actress. Her film credits include The Conjugal Bed (1963), Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967), The Flavor of Corn (1986) and Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1966).
She wrote about her ten-year, long-distance relationship with third husband Vladimir Vysotsky in the memoir Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight. Their long-distance relationship also inspired several of Vysotsky's songs. Vlady was also advocate for abortion at a time when the procedure was illegal in France and she participated in protests against deportations of Arab workers from France.
For her turn in The Conjugal Bed, Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
Early life
Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. The sisters began acting as children and, for a while, pursued a ballet career.
Acting career
Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">Template:Cite web</ref> In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.<ref name="Moscow1965">Template:Cite web</ref>
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Vlady starred in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967), and later portrayed the insightful and protective stepmother in the Italian film The Flavor of Corn (1986). A rare English language role was as Kate Percy in Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1966).
Her television credits include the 1983 mini-series La Chambre des Dames.<ref>Template:IMDb name</ref>
Politics
In 1971, Vlady signed the Manifesto of the 343, which publicly declared she had an abortion as a way to advocate for abortion, even though the procedure was illegal in France at the time.<ref name="nouvelobs/20071127.OBS7018/343">*Template:Cite news
Vlady and partner Léon Schwartzenberg participated in the protests against deportations of Arab workers from France.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She accepted a role in a film about a gay couple from Iran.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
From 1955 to 1959, Vlady was married to actor/director Robert Hossein. From 1963 to 1966, she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur, owner of two airlines and member of French Resistance.
Vlady third husband was Soviet poet/songwriter, Vladimir Vysotsky, They were married from 1969 until his death in 1980.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Vlady wrote Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight, a memoir of her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky. For a decade, the couple maintained a long-distance relationship as Vlady compromised her career in France in order to spend more time in Moscow, and his friends pulled strings for him to travel abroad. She eventually joined the Communist Party of France, which essentially gave her an unlimited-entry visa into the Soviet Union, and provided Vysotsky with some immunity against prosecution by the government. The problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky's songs.Template:Citation needed
Vlady also lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from the 1980s until his death in 2003.Template:Citation needed
Filmography
- Film
Songs
- Marina Vlady and Vladimir Vysotsky (1996) [CD], Melodiya, songs by Marina Vladi, words and music by Vladimir Vysotsky
References
External links
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- Marina Vlady at Cinémathèque française
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- French film actresses
- French television actresses
- 1938 births
- Living people
- French expatriates in the Soviet Union
- French people of Russian descent
- People from Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine
- Actresses from Île-de-France
- Vladimir Vysotsky
- 20th-century French actresses
- 20th-century Russian women singers
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners
- Recipients of the Medal of Pushkin
- Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Signatories of the Manifesto of the 343