Macha Méril
Macha Méril ( born September 3, 1940 in Rabat, born Marie -Madeleine Gagarine ) is a French actress.
Life
The daughter of the exiled Russian prince Vladimir Gagarine and Marie Belskys came after the death of her father to Paris, where she attended high school and studied Literature at the Sorbonne. She took acting classes in Paris and attended from 1960 to 1963 in New York Actors Studio by Lee Strasberg. Her first film role, she received in 1959. Four years later, she appeared in her first Hollywood movie, who has been sleeping in my bed? With. Had her breakthrough in 1964 with Jean -Luc Godard's A married woman, for which she was awarded the prize " Suzanne Bianchetti " as best young actress of the year. In the Karl May movie Ölprinz she played in 1965 a settler 's daughter. In 1968 she founded her own film production company Machafilm.
Méril also joined as a writer in appearance. In 1982 she published her novel La Star. In 1986 she was nominated for the role of Madame Landier in the feature film drama Outlaw by Agnès Varda as best supporting actress for a César.
In 2000 she undertook an international tour with the play Sacred Fire ( Feu Sacre ) on texts of the represented her George Sand with music by Chopin. In 2006 she presented her last novel to date Ce soir, c'est ta fête.
Méril, who was married from 1969 to 1978 with the Italian Gian Vittorio Baldi producer and director, supported at the French 2002 presidential elections, Lionel Jospin and 2007, Ségolène Royal.