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Marie-José Nat (born 22 June 1940) is a French film and television actress.
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Early life and family
Marie-José Nat was born Mary-José Benhalassa in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, to a Kabyle father and a Corsican mother. She was married to film director Michel Drach, and starred in his 1961 film Amelie or The Time to Love, his 1970 film Elise, or Real Life and his 1974 film Les violons du bal, concerning his childhood experiences during World War II.
Among her notable works in cinema is sequel films Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc and Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise (1963) directed by André Cayatte.
Awards
She was awarded Best Actress at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Les Violons du bal, and the film was nominated for the Golden Palm award.[1]
She currently divides her time between Paris and Bonifacio, a small town in Corsica where, as the most prominent resident, she is known as the "queen of the town."
Selected filmography
- The Truth (1960)
- Le Journal d'une femme en blanc (1965)
- Le Paria (1969)
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Violins at the Ball". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2235/year/1974.html. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
External links
- Marie-José Nat at the Internet Movie Database
- Marie-José Nat at Allmovie
- http://mariejosenat.ifrance.com/
Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival) Prix d'interprétation féminine (Best Actress) 1960–1979 Melina Mercouri/Jeanne Moreau (1960) · Sophia Loren (1961) · Katharine Hepburn/Rita Tushingham (1962) · Marina Vlady (1963) · Anne Bancroft/Barbara Barrie (1964) · Samantha Eggar (1965) · Vanessa Redgrave (1966) · Pia Degermark (1967) · Vanessa Redgrave (1969) · Ottavia Piccolo (1970) · Kitty Winn (1971) · Susannah York (1972) · Joanne Woodward (1973) · Marie-José Nat (1974) · Valerie Perrine (1975) · Dominique Sanda/Mari Törőcsik (1976) · Shelley Duvall/Monique Mercure (1977) · Jill Clayburgh/Isabelle Huppert (1978) · Sally Field (1979) ·
Categories:- 1940 births
- Living people
- People from Bonifacio
- French actors
- French film actors
- French television actors
- French people of Algerian descent
- French screen actor stubs
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