Catherine Spaak
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| Born | April 3, 1945 Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
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| Years active | 1959–2007 |
| Spouse(s) | Johnny Dorelli Fabrizio Capucci Orso Maria Guerrini (present) |
Catherine Spaak (born 3 April 1945) is a French actress and singer.
[edit] Biography
Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (Ile-de-France). She is the daughter of prolific screenwriter Charles Spaak (1903-1975), who is probably best-known internationally as the co-author of the screenplay for the Oscar-nominated 1937 Jean Renoir classic La Grande Illusion.
She spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Catherine Spaak was the lead actress in at least twelve movies. The sexy and independent adolescent characters she created epitomized the changes undergoing among the Italian youth.
Notable appearances include classic Italian movies such as I dolci inganni (1960), La voglia matta (1961), The Easy Life (1962), The Girl from Parma (1963), The Empty Canvas (1963), L'armata Brancaleone (1965), Hotel (1967) with Rod Taylor, The Libertine (1969), and The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971). She starred in Take a Hard Ride with Jim Brown (1975). She later hosted several TV shows for RAI TV, and published some books in Italian.
