Bernadette Lafont

French actress (1938-2013)

Bernadette Lafont (28 October 1938 – 25 July 2013) was a French actress.[1]

Lafont in April 2007

Lafont won the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in An Impudent Girl (L'Effrontée) in 1985. For her long service to the French motion picture industry, in 2003 she was awarded an Honorary César.

Lafont was born on 28 October 1938 in Nîmes, Gard, France. She has been married to Gérard Blain from 1957 until they divorced in 1959. Then she was married to Diourka Medveczky until they divorced. She had a daughter, actress Pauline Lafont (1963-1988). Lafont died on 25 July 2013 in Nîmes, Gard, France from cardiac arrest, aged 74.[2]

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  1. "Bernadette Lafont". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
  2. R.I.P. Bernadette Lafont

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