French actress and director born in Vietnam where her father was stationed, she is a member of a noted family. Her sister’s husband began “Doctors Without Borders” and her brother is a renowned mathematician. Both of her parents committed suicide.
When she was 12 her family moved to France where she later caught the eye of director Francois Truffaut. She had her film debut at age 17 in Truffaut’s movie, “Antoine and Collette” (1962) and worked with him on other films, including “Stolen Kisses” (1968). Perhaps her most famous movie internationally was “Cousin, Cousine” in 1975. She directed two films, one in 1990 (“Le Bal du Governeur”) and the other in 2002 (“Comme un Avion”).
Married twice, second marriage with businessman Thierry Funck-Brentano (2 children), she had a son with her first husband lawyer and politician Georges Kiejman.
On April 24, 2011 she was found drowned in the pool of her Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer home, her body weighted by a chair in wrought iron. Further details were not immediately forthcoming. After a breast cancer and a painful back due to a recent fall, opiate and alcohol were found, but she especially worried about the incest committed by Olivier Duhamel, her brother-in-law. 10 years later, all the lines of inquiry (even criminal) have been explored, and then abandoned because clueless.

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