Catherine Allégret is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 actress. She is the daughter of Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top...

 and Yves Allégret

Yves Allégret

Yves Allégret was a French film director in the film noir genre.He is noted as having been the husband of actress Simone Signoret between the years 1944–1949.-Selected filmography:...

.

In 2004, she published a book titled World Upside Down (Un monde à l'envers ISBN 2-253-11442-1) in which she contended that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather Yves Montand

Yves Montand

-Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...

 since the age of 5.

In 2007, she portrayed Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...

's grandmother Louise Gassion, in Olivier Dahan

Olivier Dahan

Olivier Dahan is a French film director and screenwriter. His third directed film, La Vie En Rose, was the first French cinema film ever to win two Academy Awards, including its first acting Oscar in the French language.-Biography:...

's take at the famous chanteuses biopic La Vie En Rose

La Vie en rose (film)

La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...

 (La Môme in French).

Selected filmography

• Lady L
  Lady L
  Lady L is a 1965 comedy film based on the novel by Romain Gary and directed by Peter Ustinov. The film stars Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven and Cecil Parker, and it focuses on an elderly Corsican lady recalls the loves of her life, including a Parisian aristocrat and an...
  
   (1965)
• The Sleeping Car Murders
  The Sleeping Car Murders
  The Sleeping Car Murders is a 1965 French film directed by Costa Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. It stars Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner and Pascale Roberts.- Plot :Six people travel by train...
  
   (1965)
• Elise, or Real Life
  Elise, or Real Life
  Elise, or Real Life is a 1970 French drama film directed by Michel Drach. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marie-José Nat - Elise Le Tellier* Mohamed Chouikh - Arezki* Bernadette Lafont - Anna...
  
   (1970)
• Smic Smac Smoc
  Smic Smac Smoc
  -Details:* Title: Smic, Smac, Smoc* Director: Claude Lelouch* Script: Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven* Writers: Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven* Music: Francis Lai* Song by Charles Trenet* Assistant director: Claude Pinoteau...
  
   (1971)
• It Only Happens to Others
  It Only Happens to Others
  It Only Happens to Others is a 1971 French drama film directed by Nadine Trintignant. The film was made in the wake of the death of Nadine and Jean-Louis Trintignant's daughter Pauline, in 1969.-Cast:* Catherine Deneuve - Catherine...
  
   (1971)
• Last Tango in Paris
  Last Tango in Paris
  Last Tango in Paris is a 1972 Italian romantic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci which portrays a recent American widower who takes up an anonymous sexual relationship with a young, soon-to-be-married Parisian woman...
  
   (1972)
• Paul and Michelle
  Paul and Michelle
  Paul & Michelle is a 1974 drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert. It is sequel to the 1971 film Friends by the same director and lead actors.-Synopsis:...
  
   (1974)
• The Round Up (2010)

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