10 Facts About Marina Vlady

Marina Vlady was born on 10 May 1938 and is a French actress.

Marina Vlady's father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer.

Marina Vlady lived with French oncologist Leon Schwartzenberg from the 1980s until his death in 2003.

Marina Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed.

Marina Vlady starred in Jean-Luc Godard's 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle, and later portrayed the insightful and protective stepmother in the Italian film Il sapore del grano.

Marina Vlady wrote Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight, a memoir of her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky.

Marina Vlady 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 Marina Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky's songs.

In 1971, Marina 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.

Marina Vlady accepted a role in a film about a gay couple from Iran.