Pascale Audret (12 October 1935,

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– 17 July 2000) was a French

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who was most active during the 1950s through the 1960s.

Career

While she starred in over 25 films between 1955 and 1968, her success never crossed over internationally. Her career in film, television, stage and music stayed in

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. One of her most high-profile films came when she starred opposite

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in the 1961 film '' La Fayette''. The following year she starred in '' Give Me Ten Desperate Men'', which was entered into the

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Personal life

Audret was born as Pascale Aiguionne Louise Jacqueline Marie Auffray to Henry Auffray, an industrialist, and Amyelle de Caubios d'Andiran, a musician,

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of the French author

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(respectively by their maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother). Her brother is singer

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. Audret was married twice, first to actor

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and later to music producer Francis Dreyfus. It was her second marriage that produced her daughter

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, an actress who co-starred in

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's ''

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'' & ''

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''. Audret put her career on the back burner after the birth of her daughter Julie in 1966.

Death

Audret died in a road accident in 2000, aged 64. She was in the passenger seat of a car being driven by her companion.

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1956) * ''

Dialogue with the Carmelites ''Dialogue with the Carmelites'' (french: Le dialogue des Carmélites, it, I dialoghi delle Carmelitane, also known as ''The Carmelites'') is a 1960 French-Italian historical drama film written and directed by Raymond Léopold Bruckberger and Ph ...

'' (1960) * '' Give Me Ten Desperate Men'' (1961) * '' Spotlight on a Murderer'' (1962) * ''

A Man in His Prime ''A Man in His Prime'' (German: ''Ein Mann im schönsten Alter'') is a 1964 West German drama film directed by Franz Peter Wirth and starring Karl Michael Vogler, Pascale Audret and Françoise Prévost. The film's sets were designed by the ar ...

'' (1964) * '' Countdown to Doomsday'' (1966) * '' Oh God, Women Are So Loving'' (1994)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Audret, Pascale 1935 births 2000 deaths People from Neuilly-sur-Seine French film actresses French television actresses French stage actresses Road incident deaths in France 20th-century French actresses