Paloma Matta

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Paloma Matta (* August 22, 1945 in Spain as Paloma Mata-Leizaola ; also Paloma Chaumette ; † September 13, 2017 in Paris ) was a French actress .

The French woman of Spanish descent made her film debut in 1961. Her first major role was the daughter of Bernard Blier and Danièle Delorme in Georges Lautner's crime drama The Seventh Juror . In 1962 she played alongside Philippe Noiret in André Michel's Comme un poisson dans l'eau die Marie-Catherine. Angelina brought her great popularity in the TV series Belle et Sébastien (1965). At the theater she played under Sacha Pitoëff at the Théâtre Moderne in Chekhov's Cherry Orchard and under Pierre Franck at the Théâtre des Célestins in Lyon in Moravia's Le monde est ce qu'il est . She played the role of Cordelia in Shakespeare's King Lear in a TV adaptation by Jean Kerchbron. In the 1960s she played Mariette Hugon in Claude Autant-Lara's diary of a gynecologist (Journal d'une femme en blanc) alongside Marie-José Nat and Robert Benoît and the newlywed Liliane Charvet in Brennt Paris? . The work for television films and series had priority and she was one of the most popular television actresses in France. She starred in the series Jacquou, the rebel (Jacquou le croquant) (1969). Her best-known role in 1969/1970 was Constance Bonacieux on the side of Dominique Paturel in the miniseries D'Artagnan . The Athos in the series played Paloma Matta's husband François Chaumette , with whom she has three children. In 1970, Paloma Matta withdrew from film except for a role in La chanson du mal aimé (1981). Since then she has worked as a midwife at the Paris Hôpital Saint-Antoine under her real name Paloma Chaumette.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1962: The seventh jury member (Le Septième Juré)
  • 1962: Comme un poisson dans l'eau
  • 1965: Belle et Sébastien (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 1965: Diary of a gynecologist (Journal d'une femme en blanc)
  • 1966: is Paris on fire? (Paris brûle-t-il?)
  • 1969: Jacquou the rebel (Jacquou le Croquant)
  • 1969: D'Artagnan
  • 1981: La chanson du mal aimé

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Short biography , accessed on January 22, 2018