Death of actress Christine Boisson, revealed by the film “Emmanuelle”

CINEMA – While a new adaptation of the sulphurous 1974 film arrived in theaters at the start of the school year, the original film mourns one of its actresses. This Monday, October 21, the disappearance of actress Christine Boisson was confirmed by her daughter to AFP.

Suffering from a pulmonary disease, the 68-year-old actress “ joined the stars”, as indicated by his daughter Juliette Kowski. “II would like to be remembered with grace because she was a graceful actress”she added.

Christine Boisson began her career in cinema with the very first adaptation ofEmmanuelledirected by Just Jaeckin from the novel of the same name. Then a young model, she was 17 years old when she played Marie-Ange, a sassy teenager who remained famous for a masturbation scene in this erotic film starring actress Sylvia Kristel.

A role that will stick to the skin of Christine Boisson for a while, who will multiply naked roles before completely turning her back on this type of character. 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 Lætitia Masson and more recently with Maïwenn in “The actresses’ ball”. Her career also turned towards the theater where she played a series of roles from 1975 to 2012.

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Two years before the end of her stage career, Christine Boisson attempted to end her life. She had also revealed in the press that she had been a victim of maternal incest. Since then, she had hardly worked (with the exception of a few roles on television or in the cinema) and was suffering from pulmonary syndrome, a “smoker’s disease”according to his daughter.

One of the last media mentions of the actress dates back to the end of 2023, where her name appeared in a column published in Le Figaro to defend Gérard Depardieu, in the same way as other renowned French artists. Among them, Nathalie Baye, Pierre Richard, Benoît Poelvoorde, Carla Bruni, Jacques Dutronc and Emmanuelle Seigner.

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