Macha Méril
Birthday: 1940-09-03
Place of Birth: Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
Biography: Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina (born 3 September 1940), known by her stage name Macha Méril, is a French actress and writer. Méril is descended by her father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and by her mother from a Ukrainian noble family. She appeared in 125 films between 1959 and 2012, including films directed by Jean-Luc Godard (A Married Woman / Une femme mariée), Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Chinese Roulette). She also appeared in the Quebec television series Lance et Compte. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Helga Ulmann in Dario Argento's Deep Red and in Aldo Lado's Night Train Murders (1975). Description above from the Wikipedia article Macha Méril,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Defector
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La Dernière Partie
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3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race
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The Married Woman
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Chinese Roulette
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Beau Pere
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The Itchy Palm
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Vagabond
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Deadly Circuit
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Tender Cousins
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Le sciamane
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La Vouivre
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A Crucial Test
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The Little Misses
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L'Apprentissage de la ville
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Le bonheur des tristes
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The Man of the Winds
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Seasons of Love
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Robert et Robert
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Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe
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Les Rois du gag
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Wild Animals
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Le Crime d'amour
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Your Turn, My Turn
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Rock 'n Roll
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Ridendo e scherzando
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Wall Engravings
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Peccatori di provincia
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Berlin '39
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Délit mineur
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Double Vision
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For Those I Loved
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The Chicks
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Godard Cinema
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We Are All in Temporary Liberty
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The Cocottes
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The Last Day of School Before Christmas
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Le rose di Danzica
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Horizon
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Les Boules de Noël
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Love on a Pillow
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Alliances rouge sang
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
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Night of The Flowers
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Mademoiselle Gigi
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Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
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The Nights of Alice
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Guy Gilles
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Albatros, The Film Adventure Of The White Russians In Paris
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Happiness Never Comes Alone
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Conjugal Love
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The Unexpected Child
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Una donna di seconda mano
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
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Belle Grand-Mère
Joséphine (aka Babou) and Grégoire (aka Pacha) live peacefully with their daughters and grandchildre...
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Le Grand Carnaval
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942....
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Duet for One
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Deep Red
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L'éternel mari
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Sweet and Sour
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Don't Play with Martians
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Pop Age
Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press c...
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Belle belle belle
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Sign of the Lion
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Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked ...
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René Bousquet ou le grand arrangement
Until the day in 1978 when he was accused by a weekly newspaper of being the main organizer of the V...
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Michel Legrand, enchanted music
The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and distinguished guests pay tribute to Michel Legrand....
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