Marina Vlady
- Acting
- May 10, 1938 · Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- September 24, 2026
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".
Known for
Filmography
- Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War · Self
- The Wild Palms · Juliette Jeanson
- Godard Cinema · Self
- Les Rois de la comédie · Self
- Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
- The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People · Voice
- Parajanov. A Ticket to Eternity · Self
- Finding Babel · Self
- Miraculous Spiral · Self
- Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian · Self
- Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover · Self
- 3 femmes en colère · Alice Trajan
- The Bardot mystery
- Resurrection · Zia Duchessa
- A Few Days of Respite · Yolande
- Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady. Last Kiss · Self
- The Case of the Grinning Cat · Self
- Nissim dit Max · Self
- Resurrection · Zia Duchessa
- Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes · Natacha
- Mosfilm, miroir d'un empire · Self
- One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich · Self
- Alekan le magnifique · Self
- Not All Dads Pee Standing Up · Zoé
- Vivement dimanche · Self
- Wind Over the City · Simone
- Dans un grand vent de fleurs · Alexandrine Garlande
- Son of Gascogne · Self
- Paradjanov, le dernier collage · Self
- To Remember · Narrator
- The Dream of Russia · Yekaterina II - empress
- Mountain of Diamonds · Anna
- Mountain of Diamonds · Anna
- Bloodsuckers · Sugrobina
- The Burning Shore · Anna
- Film sur Georges Perec · Self
- Follow Me · Ljuba
- Katia & Volodia · Voice
- The Flavor of Corn · Duilio's Stepmother
- Splendor · Chantal
- The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky · Self
- Sacrée soirée · Self
- Nulle part ailleurs · Self
- Matin Bonheur · Self
- Tottering in the Dark · Maria
- Exploits of a Young Don Juan · Mme Muller
- Twist Again in Moscow · Natacha Tataïev
- Tangos, the Exile of Gardel · Florence
- Bordello · Rosa Vonaparte
- In Search of Captain Grant · Marco Vovchok
- Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες · Rapesku
- Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen · Margarita Ivanovna
- La Chambre des dames · Mathilde Brunel
- Les Beaux Quartiers · Mme Beurdeley
- The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan · La marquise d'Espard
- Champs-Elysées · Self
- The Games of Countess Dolingen · La mère de la petite fille
- L'Œil du maître · Isabelle de Brabant
- Hypochondriac · Lucrezia
- Duets on Sofa · Jacqueline, the dentist
- Starting Point · Songs
- The Bermuda Triangle · Kim
- The Thief of Baghdad · Perizadah
- The Two of Them · Mária
- Ciné regards · Self
- Seven Deaths by Prescription · Mme Losseray
- Let Joy Reign Supreme · The Marchioness of Parabère
- Les Charmes de l'été · Pauline, la dame en blanc
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche · Self
- Apostrophes · Self
- Spécial cinéma · Self
- The Conspiracy · Christiane
- Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful · Millie Thulle
- La Nuit bulgare · Marthe Tarset
- Sappho · Françoise Legrand
- Samedi soir · Self
- Pour un sourire · Véronique
- Let's Have a Riot · Imma the cashier
- Winter Wind · Maria
- Subject for a Short Story · Lika Mizinova