Anicée Alvina

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Anicée Alvina (born January 28, 1953 in Boulogne-Billancourt , † November 10, 2006 in Paris ), actually Anicée Schahmaneche or Shahmanesh , was a French singer and actress .

Born into the marriage of a French mother and an Iranian father, Alvina attended courses at the Saint-Germain-en-Laye Conservatory and at the Actor's Studio in Paris . Michel Audiard brought her to film in 1970, where she appeared alongside Annie Girardot in Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais ... elle cause! debuted. Already in her second film, Lewis Gilberts Friends , she played the lead role of Michelle alongside Sean Bury . She appeared on TV as Nicole alongside Christiane Krüger in Christa (1971, by Yves Ciampi ) and as Dinharzade alongside Claude Jade in Shéhérazade (1971). With Guy Casarils Le Rempart des Béguines she had her breakthrough to star in 1972. Lewis Gilbert continued the story of his heroes from Friends with Paul and Michelle . Alain Robbe-Grillet cast her in 1974 for the female lead in Glissements progressifs du désir ( The constant gliding of desire ) and in 1975 alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant and Philippe Noiret for the lead role of Carolina de Saxe in Le jeu avec le feu . In the same year Jacques Doniol-Valcroze gave her the title role in Une femme fatale ( Siren Song ), as which she beguiles Jacques Weber . In 1977 she played in Dino Risi's Anima persa alongside Catherine Deneuve and Vittorio Gassman .

She was known in Germany in the late 1970s through the French films The Barricade of Point du Jour , The House of Pleasure on Rue Provence and Gérard Blains A man is getting old with Robert Stack . She gained great popularity in 1979 with the title role in Bernard Queysanne's comedy series Les 400 coups de Virginie . Alvina had few roles in the 1980s: in the Japanese film Yume, yume no ato (1981), in L'Honorable société (1981) and in the title role of Bernard Queysanne's Diane Lanster (1983). Gérard Blain brought her back to the screen in 1995 for Jusqu'au bout de la nuit . Under his direction, she also played in Ainsi soit-il in 2000 .

In addition to her acting career, she appeared as a soloist and with the group Ici Paris .

Anicée Alvina, who had smoked since she was a teenager, died of lung cancer in 2006 at the age of 53 .

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  • The discovery. In: Lui (German edition), July 1978.

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