Juliette Mayniel (22 January 1936 – 21 July 2023) was a French actress. She appeared in more than 30 films and television shows between 1958 and 1978. At the

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, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in the film '' The Fair''.

Life and career

The daughter of French peasants, Mayniel grew up in an isolated village. Her parents' country house became the Allied headquarters during

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. Her feature film debut was '' Les Cousins''. The film's director and producer,

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, writes in his autobiography that he discovered her in an advertisement film for soap. From 1964 to 1968 she was the partner of the Italian actor

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with whom she had a son, Alessandro, an actor too. She lived in Mexico. Mayniel died on 21 July 2023, at the age of 87.

Selected filmography

* '' Les Cousins'' (1959) * '' Island Fishermen'' (1959) * '' The Fair'' (1960) * '' Eyes Without a Face'' (1960) * '' The Trojan Horse'' (1961) * '' Landru'' (1963) * ''

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'' (1963) * '' Because, Because of a Woman'' (1963) * '' Amori pericolosi'' (1964) * '' Assassination in Rome'' (1965) * '' L'Odissea'' (1968) * '' Listen, Let's Make Love'' (1969) * '' Flatfoot'' (1973) * '' The Family Vice'' (1975) * '' The Bloodstained Shadow'' (1978)

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* 1936 births 2023 deaths French film actresses 20th-century French actresses French television actresses Silver Bear for Best Actress winners People from Aveyron Actresses from Occitania (administrative region) {{France-film-actor-1930s-stub