Catriona MacColl
Catriona MacColl (born October 3, 1954 ) is a British actress.
Life
McColl began ballet training at the age of five, which she completed as a teenager after suffering a foot injury.
She went to Paris , where she made her television debut in 1976 as Joëlle alongside Jean Durand and Jean-Pierre Bisson in an episode of the Brigade des mineurs series .
In the cinema that same year she had her first small role in Just Jaeckin's film Le dernier amant romantique . She played Camille Moke, Hector Berlioz's fiancée, in the Berlioz episode of the French TV series Life Pictures of a Composer . In 1978, Bernard Toublanc-Michel gave her a major supporting role in Les moyens du bord .
The breakthrough came in 1979 with the title role of a film by Jacques Demy : In Lady Oscar , the film adaptation of the manga The Roses of Versailles , she was the young woman Françoise de Jarjayes, who poses as the man Oscar. A revolutionary ( Barry Stokes ) falls in love with this Oscar , but the love story ends tragically. Demy had wanted to break sexual barriers in love and eroticism, but this was precisely the point of criticism. Not only was Catriona McColl's portrayal criticized, but also that she was not androgynous enough to be credible as a young man. The film was a failure in Demy's work.
After further French films, she began her work in horror films in 1980. Lucio Fulci gave her the female lead alongside Christopher George in A Zombie Hung on a Bell Rope ( Paura nella città dei morti viventi ). In order to be able to market the Italian horror films better for the video stores, she adopted the simpler pseudonym Katherine McColl . Fulci cast her for two other horror films: alongside David Warbeck in Über dem Jenseits ( … E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà ) and alongside Paolo Malco in Das Haus an der Friedhofsmauer ( Quella villa accanto al cimitero ). As Katharine McColl, she made herself known to such a fan base.
She then continued to play mostly supporting roles in French television productions ( Les amours des années grises ) and films ( Christian Gion's Les diplômés du dernier rang ). From the mid-80s she also played several times in English-language TV series (as Ned Beatty's daughter in The Last Days of Pompeii , episodes in Mitch and Dempsey & Makepeace and The Hitchhiker ). In 1988 she played again with Jacques Demy in Trois places pour le 26 and a sex-hungry cannibal in Daniel Colas' sexploitation horror Die Mannfresser (Mangeuses d'hommes). In the 2000s she starred in the series Plus belle la vie (2006) and in some French horror films ( Saint-Ange , Chimères - Dirty Blood - The Transfusion of Evil ).
Web links
- Catriona MacColl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | MacColl, Catriona |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McColl, Katherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1954 |