Name
Marina Vlady
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1938-05-10
Deathday
2026-09-24 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Biography
Marina Vlady (born Marina de Poliakoff-Baidaroff; 10 May, 1938 - died 24 September, 2026) was a French actress who made her film debut at 11. She has appeared in more than 100 feature films and television productions. She arrived as the blond bombshell and was the main attraction in "La sorcière" (1956).
Catherine Marina de Poliakoff-Baïdaroff was born in Clichy on 10 May 1938, to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father, Vladimir Poliakoff, was an opera singer, and her mother, Militza, was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. The sisters began acting as children and, for a while, pursued a ballet career.
Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed. In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967), and later portrayed the insightful and protective stepmother in the Italian film The Flavor of Corn (1986). A rare English language role was as Kate Percy in Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1966).
Her television credits include the 1983 mini-series La Chambre des Dames.
In 1971, Vlady signed the Manifesto of the 343, which publicly declared she had an abortion as a way to advocate for abortion, even though the procedure was illegal in France at the time.
Vlady and her partner Léon Schwartzenberg participated in the protests against deportations of Arab workers from France. She accepted a role in a film about a gay couple from Iran.
From 1955 to 1959, Vlady was married to actor/director Robert Hossein. From 1963 to 1966, she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur, owner of two airlines and member of the French Resistance.
Vlady's third husband was the Soviet poet and songwriter, Vladimir Vysotsky; they were married and lived in Moscow from 1969 until his death in 1980. Vlady wrote Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight, a memoir of her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky. For a decade, the couple maintained a long-distance relationship as Vlady compromised her career in France in order to spend more time in Moscow, and his friends pulled strings for him to travel abroad. She eventually joined the Communist Party of France, which essentially gave her an unlimited-entry visa into the Soviet Union, and provided Vysotsky with some immunity against prosecution by the government. The problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky's songs.
She also lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from 1980 until his death in 2003.
Vlady died on 24 September 2026, aged 88. According to a statement by her children, she died "at home, surrounded by her loved ones and her animals".
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- 1965 Chimes at Midnight as Kate Percy
- 1990 Film sur Georges Perec as Self
- 2023 Les Rois de la comédie as Self
- 1982 The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan as La marquise d'Espard
- 1970 Pour un sourire as Véronique
- 1967 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her as Juliette Jeanson
- 2006 The Case of the Grinning Cat as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2015 Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian as Self
- 1972 Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful as Millie Thulle
- 2018 Parajanov. A Ticket to Eternity as Self
- 1956 Crime and Punishment as Lili Marcellin
- 1989 The Flavor of Corn as Duilio's Stepmother
- 1995 Son of Gascogne as Self
- 1980 L'Œil du maître as Isabelle de Brabant
- 1963 The Conjugal Bed as Regina
- 1986 Twist Again in Moscow as Natacha Tataïev
- 1986 Exploits of a Young Don Juan as Mme Muller
- 2015 Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover as Self
- 1963 Don't Tempt the Devil as Catherine Dupré
- 1984 Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen as Margarita Ivanovna
- 1962 Adorable Liar as Juliette
- 1961 Girl in the Window as Else
- 1975 Let Joy Reign Supreme as The Marchioness of Parabère
- 1959 Blonde in a White Car as Eva Lecain
- 1998 Not All Dads Pee Standing Up as Zoé
- 1989 Splendor as Chantal
- 1975 Seven Deaths by Prescription as Mme Losseray
- 1949 Summer Storm as Marie-Tempête
- 1951 Pardon My French as Jacqueline
- 1952 The Devil's Daughter as Graziella, figlia del conte Terzi
- 1956 The Blonde Witch as Aino [Ina, US version]
- 1961 Princess of Cleves as Princess of Clèves
- 1978 The Thief of Baghdad as Perizadah
- 1978 The Bermuda Triangle as Kim
- 1962 Pride as Catherine
- 1962 The Seven Deadly Sins as Catherine Lartigue - la Femme (segment "L'orgueuil")
- 1966 The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen as Nicole
- 1973 The Conspiracy as Christiane
- 1979 Duets on Sofa as Jacqueline, the dentist
- 1981 The Games of Countess Dolingen as La mère de la petite fille
- 1955 The Wicked Go to Hell as Eva
- 1959 The Verdict as Catherine Desroches
- 1969 Winter Wind as Maria
- 1963 Enough Rope as Ellie
- 1964 The Little Misses
- 1978 The Two of Them as Mária
- 1955 Le Crâneur as Juliette
- 1966 O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo as Eva Wilson
- 1954 Days of Love as Angela Cafalla
- 1985 Bordello as Rosa Vonaparte
- 1954 Sie as Celine
- 1959 Double Agents as Elle
- 1983 Les Beaux Quartiers as Mme Beurdeley
- 1962 Climates of Love as Odile Marcenat
- 1999 Mosfilm, miroir d'un empire as Self
- 1991 Bloodsuckers as Sugrobina
- 2013 3 femmes en colère as Alice Trajan
- 1991 Mountain of Diamonds as Anna
- 1979 Hypochondriac as Lucrezia
- 1952 Luxury Girls as Eljay
- 1992 The Dream of Russia as Yekaterina II - empress
- 2008 Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady. Last Kiss as Self
- 1954 Sins of Casanova as Fulvia
- 1952 Dans la vie tout s'arrange as La petite Jacqueline (as Marina)
- 1970 Let's Have a Riot as Imma the cashier
- 2023 Godard Cinema as Self
- 1999 One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1952 Black Feathers as Gemma Vianello
- 2004 Nissim dit Max as Self
- 1969 Time to Live as Marie
- 1969 Subject for a Short Story as Lika Mizinova
- 2016 Finding Babel as Self
- 1954 Before the Deluge as Liliane Noblet
- 2016 Miraculous Spiral as Self
- 1966 Cinéma: Marina Vlady, 1966 as Self
- 1965 Run for Your Wife as Nicole
- 1959 Stars Meet in Moscow as Self
- 1966 The Nameless Star as Mona
- 1954 La Belle au bois dormant as La Princesse
- 1996 Wind Over the City as Simone
- 1953 The Age of Indiscretion as Annette
- 1960 Take Me As I Am as Hélène Chalmers
- 1962 The Steppe as Comtesse Dranitsky
- 1972 La Nuit bulgare as Marthe Tarset
- 1985 Tangos, the Exile of Gardel as Florence
- 2011 A Few Days of Respite as Yolande
- 1989 Follow Me as Ljuba
- 1958 Provisional Liberty as Eva
- 1953 The Hunt as Lucia Giardano
- 1971 Sappho as Françoise Legrand
- 1956 Forgive Our Trespasses as Dédée
- 1954 Symphony of Love as Caroline Esterhazy
- 1955 Girl on the Third Floor as Sophie Brulard
- 1963 The Cage as Isabelle
- 1998 Alekan le magnifique as Self
- 1953 The Unfaithfuls as Marisa
- 1988 The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky as Self
- 1966 A Royal Regatta as Self (uncredited)
- 1963 Sweet and Sour as La radio taxi girl
- 2018 The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People as (voice)
- 1953 Cavalcade of Song as La fanciulla amata
- 1987 Tottering in the Dark as Maria
- 2001 Resurrection as Zia Duchessa
- 2021 Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
- 1995 Paradjanov, le dernier collage as Self
- 2025 The Wild Palms as Juliette Jeanson
- 2012 The Bardot mystery
- Soon Une famille un peu ukrainienne
- 1950 Due sorelle amano as Quarta sorella
- 1962 Canzoni di ieri, canzoni di oggi, canzoni di domani
- 1989 Katia & Volodia as (voice)
- 2026 Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War as Self
- 1965 Dim Dam Dom ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1987 Nulle part ailleurs ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1983 La Chambre des dames ( 10 episodes ) as Mathilde Brunel
- 1996 Dans un grand vent de fleurs ( 7 episodes ) as Alexandrine Garlande
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 To Remember ( 1 episode ) as Narrator
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1985 In Search of Captain Grant ( 1 episode ) as Marco Vovchok
- 1982 Champs-Elysées ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1956 Cinépanorama ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1991 The Burning Shore ( 4 episodes ) as Anna
- 1975 Apostrophes ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 Vivement dimanche ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1987 Matin Bonheur ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1971 Samedi soir ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1985 Drifting Cities ( 14 episodes ) as Rapesku
- 2000 Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes ( 3 episodes ) as Natacha
- 1987 Sacrée soirée ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1975 Les Charmes de l'été ( 5 episodes ) as Pauline, la dame en blanc
- 1991 Mountain of Diamonds ( 4 episodes ) as Anna
- 2011 Resurrection ( 2 episodes ) as Zia Duchessa
- 1978 Ciné regards ( 1 episode ) as Self
