Actress Christine Boisson, who made her film debut in “Emmanuelle”, died Monday at the age of 68 in Paris from a lung disease, her daughter said. “She joined the stars and I would like her to be remembered with grace because she was a graceful actress,” Juliette Kowksi said.
A young model, she found herself still a minor, at 17, recruited by the director Just Jaeckin to play Marie-Ange, a sassy teenager who would remain famous for a masturbation scene in the erotic film that became cult “Emmanuelle” (1974).
During the 1970s, she then multiplied the roles, often bare, before systematically refusing them and devoting herself to the theater.
Trained at the conservatory, the actress has appeared in around fifty films under the direction of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Yves Boisset, Claude Lelouch, Olivier Assayas, Philippe Garrel and Laetitia Masson and more recently with Maïwenn in “Le bal des actresses “.
In 2010, this actress, who said she was a victim of maternal incest in the press, tried to escape from the window. Since then, she had hardly worked and suffered from pulmonary syndrome, a “smoker’s disease”, according to her daughter.
