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Marina Vlady
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Marina Vlady (born Marina de Poliakoff-Baidaroff; 10 May, 1938 - died 24 September, 2026) was a French actress who made her film debut at 11. She has appeared in more than 100 feature films and television productions. She arrived as the blond bombshell and was the main attraction in "La sorcière" (1956).
Catherine Marina de Poliakoff-Baïdaroff was born in Clichy on 10 May 1938, to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father, Vladimir Poliakoff, was an opera singer, and her mother, Militza, 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.
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Marina Vlady (born Marina de Poliakoff-Baidaroff; 10 May, 1938 - died 24 September, 2026) was a French actress who made her film debut at 11. She has appeared in more than 100 feature films and television productions. She arrived as the blond bombshell and was the main attraction in "La sorcière" (1956). Catherine Marina de Poliakoff-Baïdaroff was born in Clichy on 10 May 1938, to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father, Vladimir Poliakoff, was an opera singer, and her mother, Militza, 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. Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed. In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967), and later portrayed the insightful and protective stepmother in the Italian film 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. In 1971, Vlady signed the Manifesto of the 343, which publicly declared she had an abortion as a way to advocate for abortion, even though the procedure was illegal in France at the time. Vlady and her partner Léon Schwartzenberg participated in the protests against deportations of Arab workers from France. She accepted a role in a film about a gay couple from Iran. From 1955 to 1959, Vlady 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 the French Resistance. Vlady's third husband was the Soviet poet and songwriter, Vladimir Vysotsky; they were married and lived in Moscow from 1969 until his death in 1980. Vlady 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. She also lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from 1980 until his death in 2003. Vlady died on 24 September 2026, aged 88. According to a statement by her children, she died "at home, surrounded by her loved ones and her animals".
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BODY OF WORK
Marina Vlady's Filmography
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Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War
as Self
The Wild Palms
as Juliette Jeanson
Godard Cinema
as Self
Les Rois de la comédie
as Self
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People
as (voice)
Parajanov. A Ticket to Eternity
as Self
Finding Babel
as Self
Miraculous Spiral
as Self
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
as Self
No Poster
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
as Self
3 femmes en colère
as Alice Trajan
The Bardot mystery
A Few Days of Respite
as Yolande
No Poster
Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady. Last Kiss
as Self
The Case of the Grinning Cat
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nissim dit Max
as Self
Resurrection
as Zia Duchessa
Mosfilm, miroir d'un empire
as Self
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Alekan le magnifique
as Self
Not All Dads Pee Standing Up
as Zoé
Wind Over the City
as Simone
Son of Gascogne
as Self
Paradjanov, le dernier collage
as Self
The Dream of Russia
as Yekaterina II - empress
Mountain of Diamonds
as Anna
Bloodsuckers
as Sugrobina
Film sur Georges Perec
as Self
No Poster
Follow Me
as Ljuba
Katia & Volodia
as (voice)
The Flavor of Corn
as Duilio's Stepmother
Splendor
as Chantal
The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
as Self
No Poster
Tottering in the Dark
as Maria
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
as Mme Muller
Twist Again in Moscow
as Natacha Tataïev
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
as Florence
Bordello
as Rosa Vonaparte
No Poster
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
as Margarita Ivanovna
No Poster
Les Beaux Quartiers
as Mme Beurdeley
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
as La marquise d'Espard
The Games of Countess Dolingen
as La mère de la petite fille
No Poster
L'Œil du maître
as Isabelle de Brabant
Hypochondriac
as Lucrezia
Duets on Sofa
as Jacqueline, the dentist
The Bermuda Triangle
as Kim
The Thief of Baghdad
as Perizadah
The Two of Them
as Mária
Seven Deaths by Prescription
as Mme Losseray
Let Joy Reign Supreme
as The Marchioness of Parabère
The Conspiracy
as Christiane
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
as Millie Thulle
La Nuit bulgare
as Marthe Tarset
Sappho
as Françoise Legrand
Pour un sourire
as Véronique
Let's Have a Riot
as Imma the cashier
Winter Wind
as Maria
Subject for a Short Story
as Lika Mizinova
Time to Live
as Marie
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
as Juliette Jeanson
The Nameless Star
as Mona
A Royal Regatta
as Self (uncredited)
O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
as Eva Wilson
Cinéma: Marina Vlady, 1966
as Self
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
as Nicole
Chimes at Midnight
as Kate Percy
Run for Your Wife
as Nicole
The Little Misses
Sweet and Sour
as La radio taxi girl
The Cage
as Isabelle
Don't Tempt the Devil
as Catherine Dupré
The Conjugal Bed
as Regina
Enough Rope
as Ellie
Climates of Love
as Odile Marcenat
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Catherine Lartigue - la Femme (segment "L'orgueuil")
Pride
as Catherine
The Steppe
as Comtesse Dranitsky
Adorable Liar
as Juliette
Canzoni di ieri, canzoni di oggi, canzoni di domani
Girl in the Window
as Else
Princess of Cleves
as Princess of Clèves
Take Me As I Am
as Hélène Chalmers
The Verdict
as Catherine Desroches
Double Agents
as Elle
Stars Meet in Moscow
as Self
Blonde in a White Car
as Eva Lecain
Provisional Liberty
as Eva
Crime and Punishment
as Lili Marcellin
Forgive Our Trespasses
as Dédée
The Blonde Witch
as Aino [Ina, US version]
The Wicked Go to Hell
as Eva
Girl on the Third Floor
as Sophie Brulard
Le Crâneur
as Juliette
Sins of Casanova
as Fulvia
Days of Love
as Angela Cafalla
Sie
as Celine
Symphony of Love
as Caroline Esterhazy
La Belle au bois dormant
as La Princesse
Before the Deluge
as Liliane Noblet
The Hunt
as Lucia Giardano
Cavalcade of Song
as La fanciulla amata
The Age of Indiscretion
as Annette
The Unfaithfuls
as Marisa
The Devil's Daughter
as Graziella, figlia del conte Terzi
Black Feathers
as Gemma Vianello
Luxury Girls
as Eljay
Dans la vie tout s'arrange
as La petite Jacqueline (as Marina)
Pardon My French
as Jacqueline
Due sorelle amano
as Quarta sorella
Summer Storm
as Marie-Tempête
No Poster