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Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret was a French actress. She received various accolades, including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a César Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards.
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entertainment · French actress (1921–1985) · film actor · writer · tutor · stage actor · actor · translator · also Simone Signoret, Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker, Signoret
Born 25 March 1921 · Died 30 September 1985 · Q106126
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With Dominique Hollier playing Signoret
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1985· 3 entries
Died 1985-09-30.
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The year of her death: this was autobiographical in its depiction of Jewish immigrants in France between the wars
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“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last — more than passion or even sex.”
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Actress for Madame Rosa (1978).
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Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress for Madame Rosa (1978).
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1971· 1 entry
Earned Silver Bear for Best Actress for Le Chat (1971).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966).
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Proved to be ill-advised, with some harsh critics; one referred to her English as "impossibly Gallic"
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1962· 1 entry
Signoret translated Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes into French for a production in Paris that ran for six months at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Room at the Top (1960).
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1959· 3 entries
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Room at the Top (1959).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Room at the Top (1959).
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for Room at the Top (1959).
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Crucible (1958).
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Signoret acted in the English independent film Room at the Top (1959), and her performance won numerous awards, including the Best Female Performance Prize at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Actress
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Casque d'Or (1953).
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1951· 1 entry
A union which lasted until her death; the couple had no children
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1942· 1 entry
Began appearing in bit parts and was able to earn enough money to support her mother and two brothers as her father, who was a French patriot, had fled the country in 1940 to join General De Gaulle in England
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-03-25.
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