Marina Vlady
Vlady in 2009
Born
Marina Catherine de Poliakoff-Baydaroff

(1938-05-10) 10 May 1938
OccupationActress
Years active1949–present
Spouses
(m. 1955; div. 1959)
    Jean-Claude Brouillet
    (m. 1963; div. 1966)
      (m. 1970; died 1980)
      Partner(s)Léon Schwartzenberg
      (esp. 1981; d. 2003)
      Children3
      Awards

      Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French actress.

      Biography

      Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. The sisters began acting as children and, for a while, pursued a ballet career.

      From 1955 to 1959, she was married to actor/director Robert Hossein. From 1963 to 1966, she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur, owner of two airlines and member of French Resistance. Vlady was married to Soviet poet/songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky from 1969 until his death in 1980.[1] She lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from the 1980s until his death in 2003.

      Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed.[2] In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.[3]

      Marina Vlady, 1996

      Vlady starred in Jean-Luc Godard's 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967), and later portrayed the insightful and protective stepmother in the Italian film Il sapore del grano (aka: The Flavor of Corn) (1986). A rare English language role was as Kate Percy in Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1966). Her television credits include the 1983 mini-series La Chambre des Dames.[4]

      She wrote Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight, a memoir of her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky.

      For a decade, the couple maintained a long-distance relationship as Vlady compromised her career in France in order to spend more time in Moscow, and his friends pulled strings for him to travel abroad. She eventually joined the Communist Party of France, which essentially gave her an unlimited-entry visa into the Soviet Union, and provided Vysotsky with some immunity against prosecution by the government. The problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky's songs.

      Politics

      In 1971, Vlady signed the Manifesto of the 343, which publicly declared she had an abortion as a way to advocate for reproductive rights, even though the procedure was illegal in France at the time.[5]

      Vlady and partner Léon Schwartzenberg participated in the protests against deportations of Arab workers from France.[6] She accepted a role in a film about a gay couple from Iran.[7]

      Filmography

      Film
      Year Title Role
      1949 Summer Storm Marie-Tempête
      1950 Due sorelle amano
      1951 Pardon My French Jacqueline
      1952 Dans la vie tout s'arrange La petite Jacqueline
      Black Feathers Gemma Vianello
      La figlia del diavolo Graziella
      1953 The Unfaithfuls Marisa
      Finishing School Eljay
      Too Young for Love Annette
      Cavalcade of Song La fanciulla amata
      Musoduro Lucia Giardano
      1954 Before the Deluge Liliane Noblet
      She Céline
      Days of Love Angela Cafalla
      1955 Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova Fulvia
      The Hotshot Juliette
      Sophie and the Crime Sophie Brulard
      Les salauds vont en enfer Eva
      1956 Symphony of Love Caroline Esterhazy
      La Sorcière Ina
      Pardonnez nos offences Dédée
      Crime and Punishment Lili Marcellin
      1958 Liberté Surveillée Eva
      1959 Toi, le venin Eva Lecain
      The Verdict Catherine Desroches
      La Nuit des espions Elle
      1960 Les Canailles Hélène Chalmers
      1961 Girl in the Window Else
      La Princesse de Clèves La Princesse de Clèves
      1962 Adorable Liar Juliette
      The Seven Deadly Sins Catherine Lartigue
      La steppa Comtesse Dranitsky
      Climats Odile
      1963 The Conjugal Bed Regina
      Enough Rope Ellie
      The Cage Isabelle
      Sweet and Sour La radio taxi girl
      Don't Tempt the Devil Catherine Dupré
      1965 Run for Your Wife Nicole
      Chimes at Midnight Kate Percy
      1966 Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 Eva Wilson
      Mona, l'étoile sans nom Mona
      The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen Nicole
      1967 Two or Three Things I Know About Her Juliette Jeanson
      1969 Time to Live Marie
      Syuzhet dlya nebolshogo rasskaza Lika
      Sirocco d'hiver Maria
      1970 Contestazione generale Imma
      Pour un sourire Véronique
      1973 Le complot Christine
      1977 The Two of Them Mária
      1978 The Bermuda Triangle Kim
      1986 Exploits of a Young Don Juan Madame Muller
      1989 Follow Me Ljuba
      1989 Splendor Chantal Duvivier
      1992 Dreams of Russia Catherine the Great
      2010 A Few Days of Respite Yolande

      Songs

      References

      1. Караев, Николай (30 April 2012). "Марина Влади: Володя живет во мне – всегда". PostTimees. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
      2. "Festival de Cannes: The Conjugal Bed". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
      3. "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". moscowfilmfestival.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
      4. Marina Vlady at IMDb
      5. Abdulova, Julia. "Юлия Абдулова: "Родителей познакомил Высоцкий"". gazeta.ru. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
      6. Karayev, Nikolai (30 April 2012). "Марина Влади: Володя живет во мне – всегда". Postimees (in Russian). Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
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