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Catherine Spaak

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The daughter of Belgian critic-screenwriter Charles Spaak, Catherine Spaak grew up around European showbiz folk. At fifteen, she made her film debut in Nightwatch (1960). So long as she remained on the continent, she was permitted a reasonably wide variety of roles, ranging from nuns to wartime resistance fighters. Once she came to Hollywood, however, Spaak was packaged and promoted as just another foreign starlet, interchangeable with Claudia Cardinale, Camilla Sparv, Elke Sommer and the rest of the batch. Catherine Spaak is the younger sister of actress Agnes Spaak (Dr. Orloff's Monster, Better a Widow etc.) ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Catherine Spaak
Born 3 April 1945 (1945-04-03) (age 66)
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Years active 1959–2007
Spouse Johnny Dorelli
Fabrizio Capucci
Orso Maria Guerrini (present)

Catherine Spaak (born 3 April 1945) is a French actress and singer.

Biography

Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (Ile-de-France). She is the niece of Belgian politician Paul-Henri Spaak.

She spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Catherine Spaak was the lead actress in at least twelve movies and, as a singer, was regarded by some as the Italian equivalent of French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, some of whose songs she recorded in 1963. Notable appearances include classic Italian movies such as I dolci inganni (1960), La voglia matta (1961), The Easy Life (1962), The Girl from Parma (1963), The Empty Canvas (1963), L'armata Brancaleone (1965), Hotel (1967) with Rod Taylor, The Libertine (1969), and The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971). She starred in Take a Hard Ride with Jim Brown (1975). She later hosted several TV shows for RAI TV, and published some books in Italian.

In 2011 she appeared in BBC TV's "mini-series" Zen.

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