Simone Signoret
| Simone Signoret | |
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Drawing after she won an Oscar in 1959, by artist Nicholas Volpe
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| Born |
Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker 25 March 1921 Wiesbaden, Germany |
| Died | 30 September 1985 (aged 64) Autheuil-Authouillet, France |
| Cause of death | Pancreatic cancer |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1942–1985 |
| Spouse(s) |
Yves Allégret (m. 1944–49) Yves Montand (m. 1951; her death 1985) |
| Children | Catherine Allégret |
Simone Signoret (French: [simɔn siɲɔʁɛ]; 25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest film stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top (1959).
In her lifetime she also received two Césars, three BAFTAs, an Emmy, a Cannes Film Festival Award, the Silver Bear for Best Actress awards, a NBR Award and a Golden Globe nomination.
Signoret was born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany, to André and Georgette (Signoret) Kaminker, as the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers. Her father, a pioneering interpreter who worked in the League of Nations, was a French-born army officer from a Polish Jewish family, who brought the family to Neuilly-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris. Her mother, Georgette, from whom she acquired her stage name, was a French Catholic.
Signoret grew up in Paris in an intellectual atmosphere and studied English, German and Latin. After completing secondary school during the Nazi Occupation, Simone was responsible for supporting her family and forced to take work as a typist for a French collaborationist newspaper, Les nouveaux temps, run by Jean Luchaire.
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