Dominique Laffin

Dominique Laffin Elisabeth ( born June 3, 1952 in Saint- Mandé, Val- de -Marne, † June 12, 1985 in Paris) was a French actress.

Biography

Dominique Laffin was born in 1952 as Elisabeth Dominique Laffin in the Île- de -France region around Paris. A university degree, she gave up after three days, to devote himself to a career as an actress unskilled. The former saleswoman debuted in 1977 in Claude Miller's drama Sweet beside Gérard Depardieu and Miou delusion - Miou. After her first starring role in Jean -Marie Poires comedy Les Petits câlins (1978 ), she worked in the same year, together with the French director Jacques Doillon, representatives of Nouveau Naturel (German: "New naturalness" ) in the French cinema of the 1970s. Doillon's drama The woman who weeps, inspired by a series of portraits that Picasso 1937 created by his then partner, Dora Maar, tells the story of a young wife and mother, who by her husband (played by Jacques Doillon ) in an open triangle is forced. For their fifth film role in which they did not play according to their own statements or identified with the same figure, but every situation like a real conceived, Laffin was founded in 1980 for the major French film award, the César nominated for Best Actress, but lost their fellow actress Miou - Miou ( The dropout ).

After the success of the woman who weeps, acted Laffin 1979 in the title role of Christine Pascal's movie Félicité. The same year she acted like Catherine Breillat drama Tapage nocturne in a movie director who, despite marriage and child deeply engaged with a bisexual actor (played by Joe Dallesandro ) to explore the limits of their desires. After Marco Ferreri's tragicomedy My asylum, in Roberto Benigni 's her film partner, followed by roles in foreign productions, such as in Rudolf Thome's system without shadow or Hans Liechti Acropolis Now (both 1983). In her career Laffin played mainly in dramas and was most sensitive characters a face. After a supporting role in Claude Sautet several times nominated for the César tragicomedy Garçon! Mate is the same!, Followed in 1985 with the main role of Anita in her secret passage Laurent Perrin's last appearance in a feature film.

Dominique Laffin died of a heart attack at the age of 33 years. It was in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris, near the tomb of François Truffaut's buried. She left behind a daughter, Clémentine Autain (* 1973 ), which comes from a relationship with the singer Yvan Dautin. Autain, which operated in the system without a shadow of her mother's side, is in France a well-known politician and feminist.

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