MarÃa Casares
Maria Casarès ( born November 21, 1922 in A Coruña, Spain, † November 22, 1996 in La Vergne (Charente -Maritime), France) was a French actress of Spanish descent.
Life
She was taken from her father Santiago Casares Quiroga, a prime minister during the Second Spanish Republic, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 to France. In Paris, she received acting lessons by René Simon and debuted in 1942 at the Théâtre des Maturin. Her first film role, she received Children of Paradise, where she represented the unhappy love Pantomimin Nathalie in the legendary production.
Other highlights of her filmmaking formed in 1947 the role of the Countess in Sanseverina The Charterhouse of Parma, and in 1949 the Princess in Orpheus. After that, the most serious and restrained acting artist concentrated again on her theater work on Parisian stages. In 1957 she won the French Film Award Étoile de Cristal for Georges Franju's short film Le théâtre national populaire (1956). One of her recent roles she had as legendary Agrippina next to Claude Jade ( Junia ) in Jean Racine's Britannicus Meyers staging of Jean (1980). From the mid- 1970s Casarès was sporadically encountered in the French film and television and won in 1989 for the part of the general's widow in Michel Deville's tragicomedy The Reader (1987 ) was nominated for a César Award for Best Supporting Actress. In the same year we rewarded her performance as Hecuba in Hécube with the Molière for best actress.
Maria Casarès was for many years the mistress of Albert Camus.