Catherine Demongeot (born 16 May 1950, in Paris) is a French former
child actress
The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in movies or television. An adult who began their acting career as a child may also be called a child actor, or a "former child actor". Closely associated t ...
. Her debut role was Zazie in ''
Zazie in the Metro'' (1960); this was followed by only a few more films. According to an interview with Vincent Malle (film producer, and brother of
Louis Malle
Louis Marie Malle (; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in both Cinema of France, French cinema and Cinema of the United States, Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "a fi ...
) for the UK DVD release of ''Zazie'' (2006, Optimum Releasing), Demongeot never made another film and later went on to become a teacher.
Although
Vladimir Nabokov
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originally thought that
Sue Lyon
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was the right selection to play Lolita in
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film of that name, years later Nabokov said that the ideal Lolita would have been Demongeot.
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Selected filmography
* '' Zazie in the Metro'' (1960)
* ''Faites sauter la banque!'' (1964)
* ''Mise à sac'' (1967)
References
External links
*
About Zazie
1950 births
Living people
Actresses from Paris
20th-century French actresses
French child actresses
French film actresses
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