Maria Casarès
Maria Casarès (born November 21, 1922 in A Coruña , Spain , † November 22, 1996 in the Logis de la Vergne , Alloue ) was a French actress of Spanish origin.
Life
Maria Casarès was brought to France by her father, Santiago Casares Quiroga , a Prime Minister during the Second Spanish Republic , when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. In Paris she received acting lessons from René Simon and made her debut in 1942 at the Théâtre des Maturins. She got her first film role in the legendary production Children of Olympus , where she played the unhappily in love pantomime Nathalie.
Other highlights of her filmmaking were the role of Countess Sanseverina in The Charterhouse of Parma in 1947 and that of the Princess in Orpheus in 1949 . After that, the mostly serious and cautious artist concentrated again on her theatrical work on the Parisian stages. In 1957 she won the French film prize Étoile de Cristal for Georges Franju's short film Le théâtre national populaire (1956) . She had one of her last legendary roles as Agrippina alongside Claude Jade (Junia) in Jean Meyer's production of Jean Racine's Britannicus (1980). From the mid-1970s Casarès was again sporadically to be found in French film and television and in 1989 received a nomination for César as best supporting actress for the part of the widow general in Michel Deville's tragic comedy The Readers (1987) . In the same year her performance as Hekuba in Hécube was honored with the Molière as best leading actress .
Maria Casarès was Albert Camus' lover for many years .
Filmography (selection)
- 1945: Children of Olympus (Les Enfants du paradis)
- 1945: The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne)
- 1948: The Charterhouse of Parma (La Chartreuse de Parme)
- 1948: jealousy (Bagarres)
- 1949: Orpheus (Orphée)
- 1949: Do not leave me (L'homme qui revient du loin)
- 1951: Light and Shadow (Ombre et lumière)
- 1959: The will of Orpheus (Le testament d'Orphée)
- 1973: Castigata - The Chastened (Flavia, la monaca musulmana)
- 1984: Blanche and Marie (Blanche et Marie)
- 1987: The Reader (La Lectrice)
- 1994: Paradise, Brooklyn (Someone Else's America)
literature
- Olivier Todd: Albert Camus. One life. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999.
- Manuel Rivas: El periodismo es un cuento / La mujer rebelde. Alfaguara, Madrid 1997, ISBN 978-8-42047907-1 .
- Maria Casarès: Résidente privilégiée , Fayard, Paris 1980, ISBN 978-2-21300779-3 .
- Javier Figuero & Marie-Hélène Carbonel: Maria Casarès: L'étrangère. Fayard, Paris 2005, ISBN 978-2-21362401-3 .
- Javier Figuero: La extranjera , CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Madrid 2017, ISBN 978-1-54299407-1 .
- Florence M.-Forsythe: Tu me vertiges. L'amour interdit de Maria Casarès and Albert Camus. Le Passeur Éditeur, Paris 2017, ISBN 978-2-36890520-3 .
- Albert Camus, Maria Casarès. Correspondance inédite (1944-1959). Foreword by Catherine Camus. Gallimard, Paris 2017, ISBN 978-2-07274616-1 .
Web links
- María Casares in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Franziska Meier: The only one - among others: Albert Camus' lover Maria Casarès. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 11, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casarès, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Casares, María; Casares, Maria; Casarès, María |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | A Coruña , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1996 |
| Place of death | La Vergne (Charente-Maritime) , France |