Refined, striking beauty who entered films as a child and had become an established international lead by the mid-1960s. Vlady was named Best Actress at Cannes for her performance as the sexually insatiable wife in Marco Ferreri's "The Conjugal Bed" (1963) and gave a suitably Brechtian performance in Jean-Luc Godard's essay on Paris, prostitution and moving pictures, "Two or Three Things I Know About Her" (1966).
Family
SISTER: Helene Vallier. Actor.
SISTER: Odile Versois. Actor.
SON: Igor Hossein.
SON: Pierre Hossein.
Companion
HUSBAND: Robert Hossein. Director, actor. First husband; married him at age 17; divorced.
HUSBAND: Vladimir Vysotsky. Actor, singer. Third husband; Russian; married in 1969 until his death in 1980.
Milestone
Studied ballet under name of Marina Versois
1949: Film debut at age 11 in "Orage d'Ete"
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