According to French media, Nathalie Baye, one of France’s most well-known movie stars, passed away at the age of 77. The beloved mainstay of French cinema was described as “an actress with whom we loved, dreamed and grew up” by President Emmanuel Macron.
Following breakthrough roles in the early 1970s, Baye starred in almost 80 films during her lifetime and won four acting awards at the Réars, France’s version of the Oscars. Her family informed the French news agency AFP that she passed away on Friday night from a type of dementia at her Parisian residence.
She started out as a dancer before switching to acting. She was born in 1948 into a bohemian family of artists in Normandy.When Baye was just out of theater school, she landed her first role in François Truffaut’s 1973 comedy La nuitères (Day for Night in English), according to Le Monde.
Over the course of a five-decade career, she went on to become one of France’s most renowned actors. Her supporting performance in Jean-Luc Godard’s dark comedy Sauve qui peut (la vie) earned her her first € in 1981.
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