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Date of Birth

25 October 1931, Paris, France

Date of Death

28 February 2011, Paris, France (Alzheimer's disease)

Birth Name

Annie Suzanne Girardot

Mini Biography

She made her professional debut with the distinguished Comedie-Francaise theater troupe in 1954 after she graduated with honors from the conservatoire de Paris. She remained with the troupe through 1957, occasionally taking time off to perform on radio, television and in Parisian nightclubs. She made an inauspicious film debut in Treize a Table in 1955. In early roles, Girardot was typically cast as doomed women of dubious origins in dark films, but she didn't make much impact until she played in Luchino Visconti's "Rocco and his Brothers" (1960). During filming she became romantically linked with co-star Renato Salvatori -the character who stabbed her character thirteen times. They married, but divorced many years later. Through the early '60s, Girardot played leads in a few Italian pictures directed by either Visconti or Marco Ferreri. In the '70s she played also the part of the mother of young stars like Claude Jade ("Les feux de la Chandeleur") or Isabelle Adjani ("La gifle"). Though she appeared in myddramas during the '60s and '70s, Girardot never forgot her Comedie Française experiences and proved herself an adept comedienne in such films as "La Vielle Fille" or "Tendre Poulet".

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Spouse

Renato Salvatori

(6 January 1962 - 27 March 1988) (his death) 1 child

Trivia

Played Isabelle Huppert's mother in two films: Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976) and The Piano Teacher (2001).

Married Renato Salvatori after working with him on the set of the Rocco and His Brothers (1960). The couple later separated, but never divorced.

Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1992

Revealed that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003 (21 September 2006).

Mother of Giulia Salvatori.

Her autobiography "Vivre d'aimer" was published in 1989.

Graduated from the Conservatoire de la rue blanche (1954).

She has been living in a Parisian medical house (along with her older brother Jean, also diagnosed with Alzheimer), since mid 2007. During the Summer of 2010, the press revealed that she has now lost all her memories because of Alzheimer disease, and doesn't show any streaks of lucidity anymore as she did until 2009.