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through her father ecologist

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. Goldsmith was married to British travel writer

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Life and career

She began acting in the 1980 movie '' The Cricket'' of Alberto Lattuada. Alongside

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, she played a fun-loving girl ending up as prostitute. In 1981, she played prostitute Clemence in

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. In ''Plein sud'', she vows she will take up with the first fool she sees, seducing

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. In 1982, the title role in the comedy '' Bankers Also Have Souls'' earned her some international fame. The

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movie which was produced by her cousin

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. Goldsmith plays a beautiful call girl, a gift to a retiring banker from his colleagues. After two other roles, and having appeared twice in an Italian adult entertainment magazine

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, she retired from acting. From 1982 to 1985 she was married to Italian entrepreneur Carlo Alessandro Puri Negri (*1952), an heir of the Pirelli family. They had a daughter, Talita. In 1990 she married British author

, brother of Camilla, Queen Consort and they had a daughter, Ayesha. Shand confirmed in 2010 that the couple were divorced.

Filmography

* 1980: '' The Cricket'' (''La cicala'') * 1980: ''

'' * 1981: ''

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'' (''Miele di donna'') * 1981: ' (''Plein sud'') * 1981: ''La caduta degli angeli ribelli'' * 1982: ''Miss Right'' (''La donna giusta'') * 1982: ' * 1982: '' Bankers Also Have Souls'' (''Le cadeau'') * 1984: ' (TV miniseries) * 1986: ''Tug of Love'' (''L'étincelle '')

References

External links

*
Allmovie entry (with covers depicting her)
* Entries in German movie databases

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goldsmith, Clio 1957 births Living people Actresses from Paris French film actresses French television actresses French people of German-Jewish descent 20th-century French actresses

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