Biography
Dominique Sanda (born 11 March 1951) is a French actress and former fashion model. Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne (née Pinchon) and Gérard Sanda. She appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man (with Paul Newman) and Steppenwolf (with Max von Sydow). She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film The Inheritance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dominique Sanda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres · 2013
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · 2003
- Cannes Film Festival Award — Best Actress · 1976
- Knight of the National Order of Merit
- Officer of Arts and Letters
Filmography16 titles
1900
The Conformist
Conversation Piece
The Crimson Rivers
The World of Jacques Demy
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
A Room in Town
By Way of the Stars
Saint Laurent
The MacKintosh Man
Steppenwolf
First Love
Going Away
Caboblanco
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Damnation Alley