Pascale Petit (born Anne-Marie Pettit;
27 February 1938) is a French actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1957 to 2001.
Biography
Working as a hairdresser, she entered films when her beauty was noticed by actress
Françoise Lugagne
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whose husband
Raymond Rouleau
Raymond Rouleau (4 June 1904 – 11 December 1981) was a Belgian actor and film director. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1928 and 1979. He also directed 22 films between 1932 and 1981. Rouleau studied at the Royal Conservatory of B ...
was searching for young actresses for his directorial debut ''
The Crucible
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'' (1957). Petit played the role of
Mary Warren.
The following year she was awarded the
Prix Suzanne Bianchetti
The Prix Suzanne Bianchetti is an award in French cinema given annually since 1937 to the most promising young film actress.Colin Crisp. ''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958'', p. 315 (Indiana University Press; 2015)
...
in 1958 for her role as Rosalie in ''
One Life'' (1958). During the 1960s Petit appeared as the female lead in several European
international co-productions
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such as portraying
Cleopatra
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in the 1962 film ''
A Queen for Caesar
''A Queen for Caesar'' ( it, Una regina per Cesare, french: Cléopâtre une reine pour César) is a 1962 Italian-French historical drama film directed by Piero Pierotti and Victor Tourjansky and starring Pascale Petit, George Ardisson and Rik Ba ...
''. Petit appeared opposite
Roger Moore
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,
Ray Danton,
Jeffrey Hunter
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,
Guy Madison
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and
Curd Jurgens. In the 1970s and 1980s she performed a variety of roles on French Television.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1938 births
Living people
French film actresses
Actresses from Paris
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