1. Marie-France Pisier was a French actress, screenwriter, and director.
16 Facts About Marie-France Pisier
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Marie-France Pisier appeared in numerous films of the French New Wave, and twice earned the national Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Marie-France Pisier's younger brother, Gilles Pisier, is a mathematician and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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The family moved to Paris when Marie-France Pisier was 12 years old.
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Five years later, Marie-France Pisier made her screen acting debut for director Francois Truffaut in his 1962 film Antoine and Colette.
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Marie-France Pisier had a brief, but incendiary, romance with the older, married Truffaut.
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Marie-France Pisier later collaborated on the screenplay to Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating ; she played a significant supporting role in the film.
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Marie-France Pisier gained widespread public recognition in 1975 when she appeared in Jean-Charles Tacchella's popular comedy Cousin Cousine.
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Marie-France Pisier attempted to crack the American film industry with The Other Side of Midnight, adapted from a Sidney Sheldon novel.
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Marie-France Pisier appeared on American television in the miniseries The French Atlantic Affair, and Scruples the next year.
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Marie-France Pisier made two more Hollywood films, French Postcards with Debra Winger and Chanel Solitaire with Timothy Dalton.
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Marie-France Pisier played Madame Verdurin in Raul Ruiz's adaptation of Marcel Proust, Time Regained.
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Marie-France Pisier resided in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Var, and was married to Thierry Funck-Brentano.
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In 1971, Marie-France Pisier signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly declaring she had an illegal abortion.
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Marie-France Pisier was found dead in her swimming pool by Funck-Brentano and is believed to have drowned.
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Marie-France Pisier was survived by her sister Evelyne, brother Gilles, and both children.