Roger Vadim
| Roger Vadim | |
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Vadim in 1971
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| Born |
Roger Vadim Plemiannikov 26 January 1928 Paris, France |
| Died | 11 February 2000 (aged 72) Paris, France |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, producer, artist |
| Years active | 1950–1997 |
| Spouse(s) |
Brigitte Bardot (1952–57) Annette Stroyberg (1958–61) Jane Fonda (1965–73) Catherine Schneider (1975–77) Marie-Christine Barrault (1990–2000) |
| Partner(s) |
Catherine Deneuve (1961–64) Ann Biderman (1980–87) |
| Children | 4 |
Roger Vadim (French: [ʁɔ.ʒe va.dim]; 26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, such as And God Created Woman, Barbarella, and Pretty Maids All in a Row.
Vadim was born as Roger Vadim Plemiannikov in Paris. His father, Igor Nikolaevich Plemiannikov (И́горь Никола́евич Племя́нников), a White Russian military officer and pianist, had emigrated from Ukraine and became a naturalized French citizen, and was a vice consul of France to Egypt, stationed in Alexandria. His mother, Marie-Antoinette (née Ardilouze), was a French writer, and essayist. Although Vadim lived as a diplomat's child in Northern Africa and the Middle East in his early youth, the death of his father, when Vadim was nine years old, caused the family to return to France, where his mother found work running a hostel in the French Alps, which was functioning as a way-station for Jews and other fugitives fleeing Nazism.
Vadim studied journalism and writing at the University of Paris, without graduating. At age 19, he became assistant to film director Marc Allégret, whom he met while working at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and for whom he worked on several screenplays.
Vadim was celebrated for his romances/marriages to beautiful actresses. In his mid-30s, he lived with the teenaged Catherine Deneuve, by whom he had a child, Christian Vadim, prior to his marriage to Fonda. He was also involved with actress Cindy Pickett. Later, he cohabited with screenwriter Ann Biderman for several years, announcing their engagement in 1984, but the couple never wed.
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