biography
pronunciation:
[moroh]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Actress and director, born in Paris, France. The daughter of a former dancer with the Tiller Girls, she became a pupil at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique, and made her stage and film debuts in 1948. An association with the directors of the French New Wave brought her recognition as an intense, hypnotic film actress. Her most famous films include Jules et Jim (1961), Journal d'une femme de chambre (1964, Diary of a Chambermaid), La Mariée etait en noir (1967, The Bride Wore Black), and Viva Maria (1965). Occasional English-language ventures met with little acclaim, but she proved herself a formidable director with Lumière (1976) and L'Adolescente (1979). She returned to the screen in the 1990s with Nikita (1990), The Proprietor (1996), Ever After (1998), and Juliette et son amour (2000). In 1998 she was awarded an Oscar for her life-time's achievement in the cinema. |
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