Michèle Mercier

Michèle Mercier, Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier born ( born January 1, 1939 in Nice, France ) is a French actress.

Life

Michèle Mercier is the daughter of a pharmacist and an Italian mother. She started as a ballet dancer at the Opéra de Nice and brought it up to the solo dancer. At seventeen, she went to the Paris Opera Ballet Roland Petit and took private acting lessons.

After initially small roles in French films, some film people were aware of the talented actress (among other things, she played the Clarisse on the side of Charles Aznavour in François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player ) until it was finally discovered by Bernard Borderie and he with her the Angélique series turned ( on the books by Anne Golon ). Although the films had an immense success, on the other hand, has stuck the image of ' Angélique ' to her.

In the 70s, only minor roles followed in second-rate films and thus tolled the end of her acting career a. As of 2000, several of her books, the. Both by itself, act their role as ' Angèlique ' as well as other topics appeared

Filmography (selection)

• Angelique a coeur perdu: autobiography (1979 )
• Angéliquement votre (2000)
• Je ne suis pas Angélique (2002)