Actress Geneviève Gradová has died – News

Gradová died on the night of November 7-8 in a hospital in the city of Blois, a French newspaper said The World referring to her longtime husband, architect Jean Guillaume.

Gradová started her career in Paris as a ballerina, her first film was Captain Fracasse in 1961, where she also appeared for the first time with Louis de Funèse. In 1964, she unsuccessfully auditioned for the film Angelika, Marquise of Angels.

But the turning point in her career came in the same year, when she appeared in the legendary comedy Chetník z Saint Tropez again with de Funès. She then starred in two more series – Chetník in New York and Chetník se žení. However, she did not appear in other films of the Chetnik series.

In the 1970s, she gradually abandoned her acting career and withdrew from public life, saying she wanted to devote herself to her family. For a while she lived with TV presenter and popular scientist Igor Bogdanoff, with whom she had a son. But she only married the architect Jean Guillaume in 1993.

After ending her acting career, she made a living as a television production assistant or as an antiques dealer, among other things. After that she worked for the city of Vendôme as an organizer of cultural events, among other things with Annie Chaplin, one of the daughters of the legendary comedian Charlie Chaplin.