Catherine Spaak
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Catherine Spaak | |
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Born | Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France | 3 April 1945
Occupation | Actress, singer |
Years active | 1959–2014 |
Spouse(s) | Daniel Rey
(m. 1993; div. 2010)Vladimiro Tuselli
(m. 2013) |
Children | 2 |
Catherine Spaak (born 3 April 1945) is a Belgian-French-Italian actress and singer.
Personal life[]
Catherine Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (Île-de-France).
Spaak married her current husband, Vladimiro Tusellie, in 2013.[1]
Film career[]
Spaak spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Spaak was the lead actress in at least 12 movies. As an adult, she appeared in many comedies and a few dramas from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. Most of them were for the Italian film industry, with some Hollywood or international productions. Among her most notable titles are Circle of Love (1964, directed by Roger Vadim), The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965, starring Marcello Mastroianni), The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (1966, written by Age & Scarpelli), Adultery Italian Style (1966), Hotel (1967), the sex comedy The Libertine (1969), Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969, with Claudia Cardinale), the drama The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971, written and directed by Dario Argento), the nunsploitation film Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), the controversial My Darling Slave (1973), the western Take a Hard Ride (1975), Sunday Lovers (1980), Miele di donna (1981) and Alice (2010, written and directed by Oreste Crisostomi).
Singing career[]
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As a singer, Spaak was regarded by some as the Italian equivalent of French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, some of whose songs she recorded in 1963. She recorded under the label DET under the direction of Maestro Ezio Leoni, who previously produced Françoise Hardy.
Selected filmography[]
- Sweet Deceptions (1960)
- Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)
- Crazy Desire (1961)
- Three Faces of Sin (1961)
- Il Sorpasso (1962)
- Of Wayward Love (1962)
- Eighteen in the Sun (1962)
- The Girl from Parma (1963)
- The Empty Canvas (1963)
- The Warm Life (1963)
- Three Nights of Love (1964)
- Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
- Circle of Love (1964)
- Made in Italy (1965)
- The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965)
- The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (1965)
- Break Up (1965)
- Madamigella di Maupin (1966)
- Adultery Italian Style (1966)
- Hotel (1967)
- A Complicated Girl (1968)
- The Libertine (1968)
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
- Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969)
- The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
- Ripped Off (1972)
- Cause of Divorce (1972)
- Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
- Dear Parents (1973)
- My Darling Slave (1973)
- La via dei babbuini (1974)
- Take a Hard Ride (1975)
- Febbre da cavallo (1976)
- Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi (1978)
- Catherine and I (1980)
- Sunday Lovers (1980)
- The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
- Miele di donna (1981)
- Claretta (1984)
- Secret Scandal (1989)
- Une famille formidable (TV, 1993)
- Alice (2010)
- Zen (TV, 2011)
References[]
- ^ Degli Antoni, Piero (6 April 2014). "«Gli attori, che mascalzoni» La signora Spaak si racconta". La Nazione (in Italian): 29.
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