Biography
Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina (born 3 September 1940), known by her stage name Macha Méril, is a French actress and writer. Méril is descended by her father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and by her mother from a Ukrainian noble family. She appeared in 125 films between 1959 and 2012, including films directed by Jean-Luc Godard (A Married Woman / Une femme mariée), Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Chinese Roulette). She also appeared in the Quebec television series Lance et Compte. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Helga Ulmann in Dario Argento's Deep Red and in Aldo Lado's Night Train Murders (1975). Description above from the Wikipedia article Macha Méril,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · 1993
- Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit
- Officer of Arts and Letters
- Officer of the National Order of Merit
Filmography15 titles
Deep Red
Wall Engravings
Vagabond
Belle de Jour
3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race
Chinese Roulette
We Won't Grow Old Together
Pigsty
Bolero
A Married Woman
Deadly Circuit
Last Stop on the Night Train
Meeting Venus
The Defector
Godard Cinema