She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland. At the Venice Film Festival she won the Volpi Cup (Best Actress), in 1965 for Trois chambres a Manhattan.
(25 October 1931 – 28 February 2011)
In 1992, she was the Head of the Jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.[1]
In 2002, she was awarded the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Piano Teacher. She collaborated with director Michael Haneke again, in the 2005 film Caché.
Another of her best known roles was as Nadia the prostitute in Luchino Visconti's epic Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers, 1960). Nadia's beauty drives a wedge between Rocco and his brother Simone (Renato Salvatori), who eventually rapes her. In contrast to their violent on-camera relationship, Girardot and Salvatori married in 1962. They had a daughter, Giulia, and later separated but never divorced.
Later life and death
The 21 September 2006 issue of Paris Match magazine revealed that Girardot was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. On 28 February 2011, Girardot died in a hospital in Paris, aged 79. She was interred Pere-Lachaise cemetery.[2]Filmography
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