Victim in 2020 of cerebral hemorrhage, the Belgian-Italian actress dismissed in Rome, at the age of 77 years.
Le Monde with AFP
It was “an eclectic artist, cultivated and elegant who had found in our country a house that welcomed him and loved him”, praised the Minister of Italian culture, Dario Franceschini. Actress Catherine Spaak, Born Belgian Before being naturalized Italian, died on Sunday, at the age of 77, reported Monday, April 18 the RAI, a television channel of which she was a popular face.
Victim in 2020 cerebral hemorrhage, the one that was the figure of the post-war Italian comedy went out in a Roman clinic, clarified public television.
Daughter of the Screenwriter Charles Spaak, niece of the former Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, one of the founding fathers of Europe, Catherine Spaak born on April 3, 1945 in France, in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the west suburbs from Paris. She turns with Jacques Becker (the hole) before going to Italy, where she becomes an actress and featured animator both in cinema and television.
She played in eighty feature films for cinema and television, especially in the fanfaron, from Dino Risi, the new tails, Dario Argento, Weekend in Zuydcoote, Henri Verneuil, or secret scandal, from Monica Vitti.
“Telenhine teenage”
As a singer, she recorded in particular Quelli della Mia and (1963), adaptation of all boys and girls, Françoise Hardy. In the 1980s, she devoted himself to television as an animator and presenter and participates in the 2000s at reality TV shows.
On Twitter, the French television man Pierre Lescure paid tribute to his “juvenile and free beauty” while the writer Henry-Jean Servat greeted “the eternal teenager of Italian cinema”. “Heroin of acidic comedies where his wild charm and his poupines fired wonderfully, she embodies with Peps the sparkling epic of Dolce Vita,” he wrote.