Greta Vaillant (born Josette Vaillant In Rennes, Brittany, France; 1 January 1942 – 7 April 2000) was a French actress and author. She was sometimes credited as Greta Vayan and Gretta Vaillont. Vaillant made her film debut in 1968, as main actress of ''

Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana ''Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana'' () is a 1970 Italian film. It is the debut film of director Pupi Avati. Cast * Bob Tonelli as Balsamus * Greta Vaillant as Lorenza * Giulio Pizzirani as Ottavio * Gianni Cavina as Alliata * Antonio Avati as ...

'', the debut film of director

Pupi Avati Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two giallo masterpieces, ''The House with Laughing Windows'' (1976) and '' Zeder ...

and actor

Gianni Cavina Gianni Cavina (9 December 1940 – 26 March 2022) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films from 1968 to 2022. Born in Bologna, Cavina trained as a stage actor at the Teatro Stabile di Bologna, under the direction of Franco ...

. She worked again with Avati in ''

House of Pleasure for Women ''House of Pleasure for Women'' ( it, Bordella) is a 1976 satirical comedy film written and directed by Pupi Avati and starring Gigi Proietti, Christian De Sica, Gianni Cavina, Al Lettieri and Vincent Gardenia. Plot A brothel for women is op ...

'' and ''Tutti defunti... tranne i morti'', and appeared in a number of Italian genre films, mainly commedie sexy all'italiana. In 1992 she was the main actress in the

Barilla ''Barilla'' refers to several species of salt-tolerant (halophyte) plants that, until the 19th century, were the primary source of soda ash and hence of sodium carbonate. The word "barilla" was also used directly to refer to the soda ash obtained ...

's commercial directed by Federico Fellini. In 2000 Vaillant wrote her only novel, ''Le géant des sable''; she died of a heart attack a few weeks after its publication.

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* 1942 births 2000 deaths French film actresses French women novelists 20th-century French actresses 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French women writers {{france-actor-stub