Marina Vlady
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 10, 1938
- Died
- September 24, 2026 (aged 88)
- Birthplace
- Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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".
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Filmography
Une famille un peu ukrainienne
Movie
Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Wild Palms
Movie · as Juliette Jeanson
Les Rois de la comédie
Movie · as Self
Godard Cinema
Movie · as Self
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
Movie
Parajanov. A Ticket to Eternity
Movie · as Self
The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People
Movie · as (voice)
Finding Babel
Movie · as Self
Miraculous Spiral
Movie · as Self
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Movie · as Self
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
Movie · as Self
3 femmes en colère
Movie · as Alice Trajan
The Bardot mystery
Movie
A Few Days of Respite
Movie · as Yolande
Resurrection
TV · as Zia Duchessa · 2 eps
Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady. Last Kiss
Movie · as Self
The Case of the Grinning Cat
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nissim dit Max
Movie · as Self
Resurrection
Movie · as Zia Duchessa
Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes
TV · as Natacha · 3 eps
Mosfilm, miroir d'un empire
Movie · as Self
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Not All Dads Pee Standing Up
Movie · as Zoé
Alekan le magnifique
Movie · as Self
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Wind Over the City
Movie · as Simone
Dans un grand vent de fleurs
TV · as Alexandrine Garlande · 7 eps
Son of Gascogne
Movie · as Self
Paradjanov, le dernier collage
Movie · as Self
To Remember
TV · as Narrator · 1 ep
The Dream of Russia
Movie · as Yekaterina II - empress
Bloodsuckers
Movie · as Sugrobina
Mountain of Diamonds
Movie · as Anna
The Burning Shore
TV · as Anna · 4 eps
Mountain of Diamonds
TV · as Anna · 4 eps
Film sur Georges Perec
Movie · as Self
The Flavor of Corn
Movie · as Duilio's Stepmother
Splendor
Movie · as Chantal
Follow Me
Movie · as Ljuba
Katia & Volodia
Movie · as (voice)
The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
Movie · as Self
Tottering in the Dark
Movie · as Maria
Nulle part ailleurs
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Matin Bonheur
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sacrée soirée
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Twist Again in Moscow
Movie · as Natacha Tataïev
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Movie · as Mme Muller
Bordello
Movie · as Rosa Vonaparte
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Movie · as Florence
In Search of Captain Grant
TV · as Marco Vovchok · 1 ep
Drifting Cities
TV · as Rapesku · 14 eps
Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
Movie · as Margarita Ivanovna
Les Beaux Quartiers
Movie · as Mme Beurdeley
La Chambre des dames
TV · as Mathilde Brunel · 10 eps
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
Movie · as La marquise d'Espard
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 4 eps
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Movie · as La mère de la petite fille
L'Œil du maître
Movie · as Isabelle de Brabant
Duets on Sofa
Movie · as Jacqueline, the dentist
Hypochondriac
Movie · as Lucrezia
The Thief of Baghdad
Movie · as Perizadah
The Bermuda Triangle
Movie · as Kim
The Two of Them
Movie · as Mária
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Movie · as The Marchioness of Parabère
Seven Deaths by Prescription
Movie · as Mme Losseray
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Apostrophes
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Les Charmes de l'été
TV · as Pauline, la dame en blanc · 5 eps
Spécial cinéma
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Conspiracy
Movie · as Christiane
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Movie · as Millie Thulle
La Nuit bulgare
Movie · as Marthe Tarset
Sappho
Movie · as Françoise Legrand
Samedi soir
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Pour un sourire
Movie · as Véronique
Let's Have a Riot
Movie · as Imma the cashier
Winter Wind
Movie · as Maria
Time to Live
Movie · as Marie
Subject for a Short Story
Movie · as Lika Mizinova
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Movie · as Juliette Jeanson
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
Movie · as Nicole
O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
Movie · as Eva Wilson
Cinéma: Marina Vlady, 1966
Movie · as Self
The Nameless Star
Movie · as Mona
A Royal Regatta
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Chimes at Midnight
Movie · as Kate Percy
Run for Your Wife
Movie · as Nicole
Dim Dam Dom
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Little Misses
Movie
The Conjugal Bed
Movie · as Regina
Don't Tempt the Devil
Movie · as Catherine Dupré
Enough Rope
Movie · as Ellie
The Cage
Movie · as Isabelle
Sweet and Sour
Movie · as La radio taxi girl
Adorable Liar
Movie · as Juliette
Pride
Movie · as Catherine
The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie · as Catherine Lartigue - la Femme (segment "L'orgueuil")
Climates of Love
Movie · as Odile Marcenat
The Steppe
Movie · as Comtesse Dranitsky
Canzoni di ieri, canzoni di oggi, canzoni di domani
Movie
Girl in the Window
Movie · as Else
Princess of Cleves
Movie · as Princess of Clèves
Take Me As I Am
Movie · as Hélène Chalmers
Blonde in a White Car
Movie · as Eva Lecain
The Verdict
Movie · as Catherine Desroches
Double Agents
Movie · as Elle
Stars Meet in Moscow
Movie · as Self
Provisional Liberty
Movie · as Eva
Crime and Punishment
Movie · as Lili Marcellin
The Blonde Witch
Movie · as Aino [Ina, US version]
Forgive Our Trespasses
Movie · as Dédée
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Wicked Go to Hell
Movie · as Eva
Le Crâneur
Movie · as Juliette
Girl on the Third Floor
Movie · as Sophie Brulard
Days of Love
Movie · as Angela Cafalla
Sie
Movie · as Celine
Sins of Casanova
Movie · as Fulvia
Before the Deluge
Movie · as Liliane Noblet
La Belle au bois dormant
Movie · as La Princesse
Symphony of Love
Movie · as Caroline Esterhazy
The Age of Indiscretion
Movie · as Annette
The Hunt
Movie · as Lucia Giardano
The Unfaithfuls
Movie · as Marisa
Cavalcade of Song
Movie · as La fanciulla amata
The Devil's Daughter
Movie · as Graziella, figlia del conte Terzi
Luxury Girls
Movie · as Eljay
Dans la vie tout s'arrange
Movie · as La petite Jacqueline (as Marina)
Black Feathers
Movie · as Gemma Vianello
Pardon My French
Movie · as Jacqueline
Due sorelle amano
Movie · as Quarta sorella
Summer Storm
Movie · as Marie-Tempête