Juliette Mayniel
{{Short description|French actress (1936–2023)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Juliette Mayniel
| image = Oriol Maspons — Juliette Mayniel (1960).jpg
| caption = Mayniel in 1960
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|1|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Saint Hippolyte, France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|7|21|1936|1|22|df=y}}
| death_place = San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
| occupation = Actress
| children = Alessandro Gassmann
| partner = Vittorio Gassman
(1964–1968)
| yearsactive = 1958–1978
| relatives = Leo Gassmann (grandson)
}}
Juliette Mayniel (22 January 1936 – 21 July 2023) was a French actress. She appeared in more than 30 films and television shows between 1958 and 1978. At the 10th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in the film The Fair.{{Cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1960/03_preistr_ger_1960/03_Preistraeger_1960.html|title=Berlinale: Prize Winners|access-date=5 December 2014|work=berlinale.de}}
Life and career
The daughter of French peasants, Mayniel grew up in an isolated village. Her parents' country house became the Allied headquarters during World War II.
Her feature film debut was Les Cousins. The film's director and producer, Claude Chabrol, writes in his autobiography that he discovered her in an advertisement film for soap.{{cite book |last1=Chabrol |first1=Claude |title=Et pourtant je tourne |date=1976 |publisher=Ramsay |location=Paris |isbn=2-84041-012-5 |page=142}}
From 1964 to 1968 she was the partner of the Italian actor Vittorio Gassman with whom she had a son, Alessandro, an actor too. She lived in Mexico.{{Cite web|date=30 January 2022|title="Papa Vittorio made me become a bartender as a punishment. My mother? At 86 he is in Mexico and we talk to each other by email »- time.news|url=https://time.news/papa-vittorio-made-me-become-a-bartender-as-a-punishment-my-mother-at-86-he-is-in-mexico-and-we-talk-to-each-other-by-email-time-news/|access-date=31 January 2022|website=Time News|language=en-US}} Mayniel died on 21 July 2023, at the age of 87.{{Cite web |date=2023-07-21 |title=Morta la madre di Alessandro Gassmann, Juliette Mayniel |url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/people/2023/07/21/news/morta_la_madre_di_alessandro_gassmann_juliette_mayniel-408542821/ |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=la Repubblica |language=it}}
Selected filmography
- Les Cousins (1959)
- Island Fishermen (1959)
- The Fair (1960)
- Eyes Without a Face (1960)
- The Trojan Horse (1961)
- Landru (1963)
- Ophelia (1963)
- Because, Because of a Woman (1963)
- Amori pericolosi (1964)
- Assassination in Rome (1965)
- L'Odissea (1968)
- Listen, Let's Make Love (1969)
- Flatfoot (1973)
- The Family Vice (1975)
- The Bloodstained Shadow (1978)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0562831}}
{{Silver Bear for Best Actress}}
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Category:French film actresses
Category:20th-century French actresses
Category:French television actresses
Category:Silver Bear for Best Actress winners
Category:Actresses from Occitania (administrative region)
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