Cathy Rosier

{{Short description|French actress and model (1945–2004)}}

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Cathy Rosier (January 2, 1945, in Fort-de-France – May 17, 2004) was a French model and actress born in Martinique, French West Indies. She died in Marrakech, Morocco, from a ruptured aorta.

Rosier was the daughter of the Martiniquais writer and painter Yva (née de Montaigne) and her husband, politician and mathematics instructor Thélus Léro.{{cite book |last1=Vété-Congolo |first1=Hanétha |title=Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography |title-link=Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-199-93580-2 |editor1-last=Knight |editor1-first=Franklin W. |location=Oxford, England |chapter=Léro, Yva (1912–2007) |editor2-last=Gates, Jr |editor2-first=Henry Louis}} {{subscription required|via=[http://www.oxfordreference.com/ Oxford University Press]'s Reference Online}}{{cite news|last1=Thurenne|first1=François|title=Décès d'Yva Léro, la lutte féministe en deuil|url=http://www.domactu.com/actualite/7925599122341/martinique-deces-d-yva-lero-la-lutte-feministe-en-deuil/|accessdate=5 November 2017|publisher=DOMactu|date=25 September 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019202947/http://www.domactu.com/actualite/7925599122341/martinique-deces-d-yva-lero-la-lutte-feministe-en-deuil/|archivedate=19 October 2017|location=Fort de France, Martinique|language=French|trans-title=Death of Yva Léro, feminists in mourning}}

She is perhaps best known for her role as the pianist Valerie in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï (1967).

She also released her own musical album, entitled Cathy Banana.{{Cite web |title=Cathy Banana |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/9287134-Cathy-Rosier-Cathy-Banana |website=discogs.com}}