Capucine

Capucine was born on Jan 06, 1928 in France. Capucine's big-screen debut came with The Eagle with Two Heads directed by Jean Cocteau in 1948. Capucine is known for Sins directed by Douglas Hickox, Joan Collins stars as Helene Junot and Jean-Pierre Aumont as Count De Ville. The upcoming new tvshow Capucine plays is Blaues Blut - Season 1 which will be released on Mar 09, 1989.

With classic patrician features and an independent, non-conformist personality, Capucine began her film debut in 1949 at the age of 21 with an appearance in the film Rendez-vous de juillet (1949). She attended school in France and received a BA degree in foreign languages. Married for six months in her early twenties, she never remarried. In 1957, she was discovered by director Charles K. Feldman while working as a high-fashion model for Givenchy in Paris and was brought to Hollywood to study acting under Gregory Ratoff. She was put under contract by Columbia studios in 1958 and had her first leading part in the movie Le bal des adieux (1960). She made six more major movies in the early to mid 1960s, two of which (Le Lion (1962) and La 7ème Aube (1964)) starred William Holden, with whom she had a two-year affair. Moving from Hollywood to a penthouse apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1962, she continued making movies, mostly in Europe, until her suicide in 1990.