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French actress Annie Girardot, who performed in over 100 films from the 1950s on, has died in Paris after a long battle with Alzheimer's, her family said. She was 79.

 

AFP - French actress Annie Girardot, who performed in over 100 films from the 1950s on, died in Paris on Monday after a long battle with Alzheimer's, her family said. She was 79 years old.
Born in Paris on October 25, 1931, Girardot trained as a nurse before becoming a stage actress. Jean Cocteau said she had "the most beautiful post-war dramatic temperament."
Her first silver screen performance was in Andre Hunebelle's "13 at table".
In 1969 she starred as a prostitute in Luchino Visconti's "Rocco and his brothers," playing alongside French star Alain Delon and Italian actor Renato Salvatori, also her future husband and father to daughter Giulia.
She performed in dozens of classic French films, in roles ranging from a policewoman to lawyer or teacher.
In 1977 she won the Best Actress Cesar, France's equivalent to an Oscar, for her role in Jean-Louis Bertucelli's "Doctor Francoise Gailland."
Her struggle with Alzheimer's was documented in Nicolas Baulieu's film "Life is like that".
"I've always gone to the market myself, done my shopping, my housework. I've never been a velvety star," she wrote in 1999.