Marina Vlady

Marina Vlady
Vlady in 2009
Born
Marina Catherine de Poliakoff-Baydaroff

(1938-05-10) 10 May 1938
OccupationActress
Years active1949–2018
Spouses
(m. 1955; div. 1959)
Jean-Claude Brouillet
(m. 1963; div. 1966)
(m. 1970; died 1980)
Partner(s)Léon Schwartzenberg
(esp. 1981; d. 2003)
Children3
Awards

Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French film and TV actress. Her film credits include The Conjugal Bed (1963), Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967), The Flavor of Corn (1986) and Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1966).

She wrote about her ten-year, long-distance relationship with third husband Vladimir Vysotsky in the memoir Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight. Their long-distance relationship also inspired several of Vysotsky's songs. Vlady was also advocate for abortion at a time when the procedure was illegal in France and she participated in protests against deportations of Arab workers from France.

For her turn in The Conjugal Bed, Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.