Farewell to Catherine Spaak

«The actress of so many wonderful films, the brilliant presenter, the writer, especially the woman who lived with elegance and character to the last, left us tonight in Rome. We will miss you very much ». With this message the family announced the death of Catherine Spaak. The actress and presenter was 77 years old and had been ill for some time.

Born in France from a family Belgian, in Italy which had achieved fame at a very young age. Her mother was the actress Claudie Clèves and her father was a screenwriter. Agnès is also an actress and photographer of her sister. Uncle Paul-Henri was Prime Minister of Belgium.

He had started with cinema and then moved on to television. Forum And Harem (15 seasons to tell women as a woman) are the broadcasts that have made her enter the homes of many, but her face was already well known for having been one of the protagonists of Italian cinema in the sixties and seventies. In the first roles she was a sensual and often rebellious teenager, she later became a lady of the cinema.

The first Italian film is The sweet deceptions by Alberto Lattuada, in which she plays a student who allows herself to a mature man: it is 1960. She said later: «I left with a letter from my father authorizing me to work. I was terrified of acting, I have lived for years in terror. I didn’t want to be an actress but a classical dancer, I was too tall at the time. But doing this job was my salvation ».

Among its title Boredom by Damiano Damiani, The mad desire by Luciano Salce, Overtaking by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman who will also be with her in The Brancaleone army. In 1976 he is with Gigi Proietti in Horse fever. In 1989 he joined Monica Vitti in her friend’s last film. His last big screen appearance is in 2019 in the film The holiday by Enrico Iannaccone.

She never left the cinema, but she was also a singer (Those of my age and The army of surfing), writer, journalist, presenter. In the 2000s she participated in dancing with the Stars and toIsland of the famousbut on TV it also passes in A Place in the Sun And A doctor in the family.

She had been married four times. With the actor Fabrizio Capucci he had a daughter, Sabrina, who was estranged from her to be raised by her paternal grandmother. From the union with Johnny Dorelli he had a son, Gabriel. From 1993 to 2010 she was married to the architect Daniel Rey and in 2013 with Vladimiro Tuselli.

In 2020 it was hit by acerebral hemorrhage followed by a seizure. TO Italian stories she said: «I came to say that if we are sick we should not be ashamed. I’m still here with a smile, with the ability to reason and speak, but also to rebel. I have not lost my grit and courage. I did not walk and did not see. I don’t remember anything about this crisis and I find it beautiful. We are treated, healed and we go back to the same life as before ».

THE funeral will be held in a strictly private form.

Source: Vanity Fair

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