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Dominique Varaigne, Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne, Domino, Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne, Dominique Varaigne, Domino, Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne, Dominique Varaigne, Domino, Dominique Varaigne, Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne
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Dominique Sanda, born 11 March 1951 is a French actress and former fashion model.
Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne and Gérard Varaigne. She appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man and Steppenwolf.
At the theatre:
in 1993 at the Théâtre de la Commune, in Aubervilliers, France, she played Melitta in Madame Klein, directed by Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman;
in 1995 in Italy, she played the marquise de Merteuil in Les liaisons dangereuses, based on Choderlos de Laclos's novel, directed by Mario Monicelli.
in 1995-1996 in France and Belgium, she has been Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, directed by Adrian Brine.
In the 1970s, she lived with late actor/director Christian Marquand, with whom she had a son, Yann Marquand. In 2000, she married Nicolae Cutzarida, a philosopher and University professor of Romanian origin.
She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film The Inheritance.
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