Michèle Mercier reached veteran standing the slow way, as a French actress recognizable to viewers well beyond any single title. She appears in 'Shoot the Piano Player' too. The career opened quietly, the way most long ones do. 49 credits across 72 years is a rate most careers never reach. The film 'Black Sabbath' accounts for more of the public profile than anything else does.
Michèle Mercier
Actress
87 years (Jan 1, 1939)Nice, FranceNice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Michèle Mercier reached veteran standing the slow way, as a French actress recognizable to viewers well beyond any single title. She appears in 'Shoot the Piano Player' too. The career opened quietly, the way most long ones do. 49 credits across 72 years is a rate most careers never reach. The film 'Black Sabbath' accounts for more of the public profile than anything else does.
1939-01-01 · Nice, FranceNice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Michèle Mercier (born Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier; January 1, 1939) is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin. Her leading men have included Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Charles Aznavour, Robert Hossein, Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis and Charlton Heston. Although she appeared in more than fifty films, it is for her role as "Angélique" that she is best known in France.Michèle Mercier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.