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Catherine Demongeot (born 16 May 1950, in Paris) is a French former
child actress The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage, television, or in movies. An adult who began their acting career as a child may also be called a child actor, or a "former child actor". Closely associated te ...
. Her debut role was Zazie in ''
Zazie dans le Métro Isabelle Marie Anne de Truchis de Varennes (born 18 April 1964), better known by her stage name Zazie, is a French pop singer and songwriter. Her greatest hits include "Je suis un homme", "À ma place" and "Speed (Zazie song), Speed". She co-pr ...
'' (1960); this was followed by only a few more films. According to an interview with Vincent Malle (film producer, and brother of
Louis Malle Louis Marie Malle (; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "a filmmaker difficult to pin down", Malle made document ...
) for the UK DVD release of ''Zazie'' (2006, Optimum Releasing), Demongeot never made another film and later went on to become a teacher. Although
Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Rus ...
originally thought that
Sue Lyon Suellyn Lyon (July 10, 1946 – December 26, 2019) was an American actress who is most famous today for playing the title role in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel ''Lolita'', for which she was awarded a G ...
was the right selection to play Lolita in
Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American filmmaker and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick filmography, his films were nearly all adaptations of novels or sho ...
's film of that name, years later Nabokov said that the ideal Lolita would have been Demongeot.Google Books. ''Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years'' by Brian Boyd
Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial ...
. 1991.


Selected filmography

* ''
Zazie dans le Métro Isabelle Marie Anne de Truchis de Varennes (born 18 April 1964), better known by her stage name Zazie, is a French pop singer and songwriter. Her greatest hits include "Je suis un homme", "À ma place" and "Speed (Zazie song), Speed". She co-pr ...
'' (1960) * Une femme est une femme (1961, not mentioned) * '' Faites sauter la banque!'' (1964) * ''
Mise à sac Mise or Miše may refer to: * Mise (mythology), a deity addressed in the ''Orphic Hymns'' * Ante Miše (born 1967), Croatian footballer * Jerolim Miše (1890–1970), Croatian painter, teacher, and art critic * MISE, an abbreviation for Mean integ ...
'' (1967)


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1950 births Living people Actresses from Paris 20th-century French actresses French child actresses French film actresses {{France-film-actor-1950s-stub