Greta Vaillant

{{Short description|French actress and author}}

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Greta Vaillant (born Josette Vaillant In Rennes, Brittany, France;{{Cite web|url=http://ancensored.com/celebrities/Greta-Vayan|title=Greta Vayan Nude Pics & Videos, Sex Tape < ANCENSORED}} 1 January 1942 – 7 April 2000){{cite web|title=RENNES (35) : cimetière de l'Est|url=http://www.landrucimetieres.fr/spip/spip.php?article3688|accessdate=20 March 2016}} was a French actress and author. She was sometimes credited as Greta Vayan and Gretta Vaillont.

Vaillant made her film debut in 1968, as main actress of Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana, the debut film of director Pupi Avati and actor Gianni Cavina.{{cite book|last=Luca M. Palmerini, Gaetano Mistretta|title=Spaghetti nightmares|publisher=M&P, 1996}} She worked again with Avati in House of Pleasure for Women and Tutti defunti... tranne i morti, and appeared in a number of Italian genre films, mainly commedie sexy all'italiana. In 1992 she was the main actress in the Barilla's commercial directed by Federico Fellini.{{cite book|last=Tullio Kezich|title=Federico Fellini: il libro dei film|publisher=Rizzoli, 2009|pages=314–316}} In 2000 Vaillant wrote her only novel, Le géant des sable;{{cite book| last=Vaillant| first=Greta| date=2000| url=http://www.editions-jclattes.fr/le-geant-des-sables-9782709620444| work=JC Lattès| title=Le Géant des sables| publisher=Lattès| accessdate=2016-02-25|

isbn=9782709620444 }}{{cite web| url=http://www.editions-jclattes.fr/le-geant-des-sables-9782709620444| work=JC Lattès| title=Le Géant des sables, de Greta Vaillant [English version of page]| accessdate=2016-02-25}} {{cite news|title=Le livre de la semaine - Le Géant des sables, de Greta Vaillant|newspaper=La Vie, n°2854|date=11 March 2000}}

she died of a heart attack a few weeks after its publication.{{cite news|title=Ciao, Greta!|newspaper=Paris Match|year=2000}}