Belgian-Italian actress Catherine Spaakmuse of post-war Italian comedy, He died this Sunday at the age of 77, the Rai television channel reported on Monday, of which he was a very popular face. Victim in 2020 of a cerebral hemorrhage, he has died in a Roman clinic, public television has reported.
Daughter of screenwriter Charles Spaak, niece of former Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaakone of the “founding fathers” of Europe, Catherine Spaak was born on April 3, 1945 in France, in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the western suburbs of Paris.
In his artistic beginnings he toured with Jacques Becker (the evasion) before leaving for Italy, where she became a star actress and presenter in both film and television. The most remembered program of her as a presenter is Harem, which he conducted for 15 seasons.
His fame exploded in Italy in the sixties and seventies, when, at just 20 years old, he starred in films such as The escape (Dino Risi)where she was the almost unknown daughter of Vittorio Gassman, or the mad desirewhere she played an unscrupulous teenager.
During his long film career, Spaak has worked with some of the greatest Italian comedy directors, such as Mario Monicelli, in The Brancaleone armada; the aforementioned Dino Risi; Nanni Loy, in Made in Italy; o Luigi Comencini, in The Liar. Among his most remembered films are The escapefrom Dino Risi, The cat with nine tails from Dario Argento, Weekend in Dunkirkfrom Henri Verneuil o secret scandalfrom Monica Vitti. He shot a total of 80 feature films for film and television.
He also stood out as a singer and in 1963 he recorded Those of my agean adaptation of All the boys and girls from Françoise Hardy.
In the 1980s, she turned to television, as a presenter, and in the 2000s, she participated in several reality television programs.
On Twitter, journalist Pierre Lescure has paid tribute to her “youthful and free beauty”, while the writer Henry-Jean Servat he has hailed her as “the eternal adolescent of Italian cinema”.
“Heroine of racy comedies where her wild charm stood out, she energetically embodies the sparkling epic of the Sweet life“, wrote.
“A multifaceted, cultured and elegant artist who has found a home in our country that has welcomed and loved her” is leaving. said the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschiniof the actress.
She was married four times, the first in 1963, when she was very young, with Fabrizio Capucci. The union lasted only a few months, when she experienced the drama of having her daughter taken from her for having abandoned the marriage. She then she married the singer Johnny Dorelli, whose union lasted 15 years and with whom he had a son, Gabriele. In 1993 she married the architect daniel kingwith whom he was 17 years, and then married Vladimiro Tuselli.
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