Marie-Christine Barrault

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BIRTHDAY

March 21, 1944

Paris, France

RECENT CREDITS

Azzurro (FILM) Jan. 1, 2000

La Dilettante (FILM) Jan. 1, 1999

Love, Math and Sex (FILM) Jan. 1, 1997

Obsession (FILM) Jan. 1, 1997

Le Soulier de Satin (FILM) Sep. 9, 1994

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BIOGRAPHY

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A luminous, versatile blonde performer, Marie-Christine Barrault made an impressive film debut as the student who entices and marries the moralistic Jean-Louis Trintignant in Eric Rohmer's "Ma nuit chez Maud"/"My Night at Maud's" (1969). She earned a surprise Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance as one of the lovers in the sleeper hit comedy "Cousin, Cousine" (1975). Rohmer tapped her again to play Guinevere in "Perceval le gallois/Perceval" (1978). Barrault was virtually wasted in her English-language debut in "The Medusa Touch" (1978) and played an object of Woody Allen's affections in his "Stardust Memories" (1980). She made one other American film, "Table for Five" (1983), as Jon Voight's leading lady before she returned to European fare, where she worked with many leading directors. Andrzej Wajda cast her in "Eine Liebe in Deutschland/A Love in Germany" (1983) while Volker Schlondorff tapped her for his Proust adaptation, "Un Amour de Swann/Swann in Love" (1984). She has remained active, generally in supporting roles, in such films as "Amour Fou" (1993), directed by her husband Roger Vadim, "C'est la tangente que je prefere/Love, Math and Sex" and "Obsession" (both 1997).

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BUZZ/SAW: Dining Out With Diane Keaton

Feb. 22, 2000

NEW YORK, N.Y., Feb. 22, 2000 -- Who needs rehearsals? Apparently not Diane Keaton, director and star of "Hanging Up." In the comedy hit, Keaton, Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow play three ambitious sisters who are drawn closer together when their womanizing screenwriter father (Walter Matthau) becomes hospitalized. The spunky on-screen spontaneity suggests Keaton's loose-leash approa...

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'Barbarella' Director Dead of Cancer

Posted: Feb. 12, 2000

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