Revealed in the cinema at 17, in 1985, the actress, far from the sets because of her HIV positive, died at the age of 53, in Paris, on July 13, after the failure of a Second Heart transplant.
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He predicted a destiny to him at Sophie Marceau. In 1985, at 17, the film Red Kiss, by Véra Belmont, had made her a potential star. She interpreted there, alongside Lambert Wilson, Marthe Keller and Laurent Terzieff, the character of Nadia, a 15 -year -old teenager, activist with the Communist Young, who has a love at first sight for a Paris Match photographer. A first role that will earn him a silver bear at the Berlin Festival and an appointment to the César for best female hope.
“The glitter flies like ashes …”, she said, in 1989, after being denied the role of another fell in love (her philosophy teacher, played by Bruno Cremer ), in Noces Blanches, by the director Jean-Claude Brisseau (1944-2019), to whom she had thought he could entrust to have caught AIDS on the eve of her 18th birthday.
She will not reveal her HIV status to the general public in 2005, in an autobiographical book, love in blood (Le Cherche Midi), adapted in TV movie in 2008 (where she will play her own role). But she will never say who was this “Gothic prince”, a member of a known rock group, which she thought he had transmitted the virus.
Charlotte Valandrey will have run all her life after this annoyed destiny. Without ever giving up, or guarding it. Thirty-five years during, she played a first role that no one came to contest her: that of a ruthless warrior against HIV and the heart problems he had caused to him, and which will end up winning this July 13, at 53.
Parisian of birth, adoptive daughter of Pléneuf-Val-André (Côtes-d’Armor), Breton commune from her childhood from where she will draw her artist name, Anne-Charlotte Pascal, of her real name, was An unwavering ally of the Aid Association, which recalls, in a final tribute, that it “has repeatedly contributed to us to fight against HIV and the discrimination suffered by the people who live with”.
In 2008, his heart stopped beating for twenty-two seconds. A first infarction, which will precipitate it in a second equally fierce fight, that of organ donation. First HIV positive grafted from the heart in France, she will make it a second book, unknown heart (Le Cherche Midi, 2011), after having received an anonymous letter saying to her: “I know the heart that beats in you, I loved it … “Her heart was beaten for her daughter, her challenge, her victory: Tara will be born in 2000, seronegative.
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