Marcelle Pradot was a French actress who worked principally in silent films. She was born at Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, near Paris. At the age of 18 while she was taking classes in dancing and singing in Paris, she was asked by Marcel L'Herbier to appear in his film Le Bercail. She was noted as an aristocratic beauty, and she was described by the critic Louis Delluc as "the Infanta of French cinema"