Marina Vlady
Acting
Born: May 10, 1938 · Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Died: September 24, 2026 (aged 88)
Highest Rated
Biography
Marina Vlady (born Marina de Poliakoff-Baidaroff; 10 May, 1938 - died 24 September, 2026) was a French actress who made her film debut at 11. She has appeared in more than 100 feature films and television productions. She arrived as the blond bombshell and was the main attraction in "La sorcière" (1956). Catherine Marina de Poliakoff-Baïdaroff was born in Clichy on 10 May 1938, to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father, Vladimir Poliakoff, was an opera singer, and her mother, Militza, was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. The sisters began acting as children and, for a while, pursued a ballet career. Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed. In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967), and later portrayed the insightful and protective stepmother in the Italian film The Flavor of Corn (1986). A rare English language role was as Kate Percy in Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1966). Her television credits include the 1983 mini-series La Chambre des Dames. In 1971, Vlady signed the Manifesto of the 343, which publicly declared she had an abortion as a way to advocate for abortion, even though the procedure was illegal in France at the time. Vlady and her partner Léon Schwartzenberg participated in the protests against deportations of Arab workers from France. She accepted a role in a film about a gay couple from Iran. From 1955 to 1959, Vlady was married to actor/director Robert Hossein. From 1963 to 1966, she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur, owner of two airlines and member of the French Resistance. Vlady's third husband was the Soviet poet and songwriter, Vladimir Vysotsky; they were married and lived in Moscow from 1969 until his death in 1980. Vlady wrote Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight, a memoir of her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky. For a decade, the couple maintained a long-distance relationship as Vlady compromised her career in France in order to spend more time in Moscow, and his friends pulled strings for him to travel abroad. She eventually joined the Communist Party of France, which essentially gave her an unlimited-entry visa into the Soviet Union, and provided Vysotsky with some immunity against prosecution by the government. The problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky's songs. She also lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from 1980 until his death in 2003. Vlady died on 24 September 2026, aged 88. According to a statement by her children, she died "at home, surrounded by her loved ones and her animals".
Known for
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
1986
Chimes at Midnight
1965
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
1967
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
Twist Again in Moscow
1986
The Bermuda Triangle
1978
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
1972
Splendor
1989
Seven Deaths by Prescription
1975
The Conjugal Bed
1963
O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
1966
Hypochondriac
1979
Photos (8)
Movies (85)
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Mme Muller
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Juliette Jeanson
The Seven Deadly Sins
Catherine Lartigue - la Femme (segment "L'orgueuil")
The Thief of Baghdad
Perizadah
Chimes at Midnight
Kate Percy
Enough Rope
Ellie
The Wicked Go to Hell
Eva
Splendor
Chantal
Seven Deaths by Prescription
Mme Losseray
A Few Days of Respite
Yolande
Don't Tempt the Devil
Catherine Dupré
The Dream of Russia
Yekaterina II - empress
O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
Eva Wilson
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Florence
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Millie Thulle
Duets on Sofa
Jacqueline, the dentist
The Unfaithfuls
Marisa
The Bermuda Triangle
Kim
Let Joy Reign Supreme
The Marchioness of Parabère
Double Agents
Elle
Sins of Casanova
Fulvia
Sweet and Sour
La radio taxi girl
Forgive Our Trespasses
Dédée
Twist Again in Moscow
Natacha Tataïev
Girl in the Window
Else
The Cage
Isabelle
The Conjugal Bed
Regina
Blonde in a White Car
Eva Lecain
The Two of Them
Mária
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
Nicole
Girl on the Third Floor
Sophie Brulard
Princess of Cleves
Princess of Clèves
Let's Have a Riot
Imma the cashier
The Conspiracy
Christiane
Crime and Punishment
Lili Marcellin
The Nameless Star
Mona
Days of Love
Angela Cafalla
The Games of Countess Dolingen
La mère de la petite fille
Luxury Girls
Eljay
Hypochondriac
Lucrezia
Before the Deluge
Liliane Noblet
Canzoni di ieri, canzoni di oggi, canzoni di domani
1962
The Flavor of Corn
Duilio's Stepmother
Sappho
Françoise Legrand
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
La marquise d'Espard
Sie
Celine
The Bardot mystery
2012
3 femmes en colère
Alice Trajan
Run for Your Wife
Nicole
Cavalcade of Song
La fanciulla amata
The Hunt
Lucia Giardano
The Devil's Daughter
Graziella, figlia del conte Terzi
Bordello
Rosa Vonaparte
The Steppe
Comtesse Dranitsky
The Age of Indiscretion
Annette
Mountain of Diamonds
Anna
The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People
(voice)
Resurrection
Zia Duchessa
Climates of Love
Odile Marcenat
The Blonde Witch
Aino [Ina, US version]
La Nuit bulgare
Marthe Tarset
Pride
Catherine
Dans la vie tout s'arrange
La petite Jacqueline (as Marina)
Take Me As I Am
Hélène Chalmers
Black Feathers
Gemma Vianello
Time to Live
Marie
Bloodsuckers
Sugrobina
Wind Over the City
Simone
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
2021
The Verdict
Catherine Desroches
Subject for a Short Story
Lika Mizinova
Adorable Liar
Juliette
Le Crâneur
Juliette
Symphony of Love
Caroline Esterhazy
Not All Dads Pee Standing Up
Zoé
The Wild Palms
Juliette Jeanson
Due sorelle amano
Quarta sorella
La Belle au bois dormant
La Princesse
Pardon My French
Jacqueline
Katia & Volodia
(voice)
Pour un sourire
Véronique
Provisional Liberty
Eva
The Little Misses
1964
Winter Wind
Maria
Summer Storm
Marie-Tempête
TV Shows (9)
To Remember
Narrator · 1 eps
In Search of Captain Grant
Marco Vovchok · 1 eps
Dans un grand vent de fleurs
Alexandrine Garlande · 7 eps
The Burning Shore
Anna · 4 eps
Resurrection
Zia Duchessa · 2 eps
La Chambre des dames
Mathilde Brunel · 10 eps
Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes
Natacha · 3 eps
Mountain of Diamonds
Anna · 4 eps
Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες
Rapesku · 14 eps
Self / Appearances (30)
Spécial cinéma
Self · 1 eps
Sacrée soirée
Self · 2 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 4 eps
Vivement dimanche
Self · 2 eps
Apostrophes
Self · 1 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 2 eps
Nulle part ailleurs
Self · 1 eps
Cinépanorama
Self · 2 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
Dim Dam Dom
Self · 1 eps
Matin Bonheur
Self · 1 eps
Godard Cinema
Self
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Self
The Case of the Grinning Cat
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Les Rois de la comédie
Self
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
Miraculous Spiral
Self
Paradjanov, le dernier collage
Self
The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
Self
Parajanov. A Ticket to Eternity
Self
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Self - Narrator (voice)
Stars Meet in Moscow
Self
Son of Gascogne
Self
Finding Babel
Self
Alekan le magnifique
Self
Mosfilm, miroir d'un empire
Self
A Royal Regatta
Self (uncredited)
Cinéma: Marina Vlady, 1966
Self
Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War
Self
Nissim dit Max
Self
