Clio Goldsmith
Clio Goldsmith, married Clio Shand, ( born June 16, 1957 in Paris ) is a French former actress.
Biography
She is the daughter of the Anglo-French ecologist Edward Goldsmith (1928-2009), the founder of the magazine The Ecologist, and a niece of the billionaire Sir James Goldsmith ( 1933-1997 ). Clio Goldsmith started her cinema career in 1980 with a small role as a prostitute Clemence in Mauro Bologninis adaptation of the novel The Lady of the Camellias with Isabelle Huppert and in the Italian film La cicala by director Alberto Lattuada, where they have a on the side of Virna Lisi and Anthony Franciosa also prostitute played. Her other screen roles were mostly liberal nature, as in the softcore film honey mouth or as a femme fatale and seductress of Patrick Dewaere in Plein sud (both 1981).
Became internationally known Clio Goldsmith in 1982 in the title role of staged by Michel Lang and produced by her cousin Gilbert de Goldschmidt Comedy A spicy gift, with Pierre Mondy and Claudia Cardinale, where they again appeared as a prostitute. After that, they only played a few roles and in the mid- 1980s, retired into private life.
From 1982 until the divorce in 1985 she was married to the Italian industrialist Carlo Alessandro Puri Negri ( born 1952 ), an heir of the Pirelli Group. With him she has a daughter. Since 1990 she is the wife of British author Mark Shand ( b. 1951 ), brother of Camilla, with whom she also has a daughter. Clio Goldsmith is a first cousin of Jemima Khan.