Simone Mareuil was a French actress best known for appearing in the surrealist film Un chien andalou

Un chien andalou

Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 to a limited showing in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months....

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Biography

Born Marie Louise Simone Vacher in Périgueux

Périgueux

Périgueux is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.Périgueux is the prefecture of the department and the capital of the region...

, Dordogne

Dordogne

Dordogne is a départment in south-west France. The départment is located in the region of Aquitaine, between the Loire valley and the High Pyrénées named after the great river Dordogne that runs through it...

, she appeared in a number of films, most notably director Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...

's Un chien andalou

Un chien andalou

Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 to a limited showing in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months....

(An Andalusian Dog, 1929). She was the second wife of actor Philippe Hersent.

After World War II, she returned to Périgueux, where she fell into a deep depression

Clinical depression

Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and by loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities...

. She committed suicide

Suicide

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 by self-immolation

Self-immolation

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 by dousing herself in gasoline and burning herself to death in a public square.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1924	L'Ombre du bonheur
	La Galerie des monstres		Alternative titles: Gallery of Monsters, La Barraca de los monstruos
1925	Chouchou poids plume
1926	Le Juif errant	Céphise
1927	Poker d'as
	La Petite chocolatière		Alternative title: The Chocolate Girl
	Genêt d'Espagne
1929	Peau de pêche		Alternative title: Peach Skin
	La Fée moderne
	Ces dames aux chapeaux verts
	Un chien andalou Un chien andalou Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 to a limited showing in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months....	Young girl	Alternative title: An Andalusian Dog; credited as Simonne Mareuil
1930	Nos maîtres les domestiques		Alternative title: Our Masters, the Servants
1931	Le Juif polonais	Annette	Alternative title: Polish Jew
	Coeur de Paris	Jeannette Durand	Alternative title: Le Coeur de Paris
1932	Le Soir des rois	Charlotte Oltendorf	Alternative title: How Shall I Tell My Husband?
1933	Miss Helyett	Lolotte
	Mariage à responsabilité limitée
	L'Héritier du Bal Tabarin	Mademoiselle Longuebois
1936	L'Amant de Madame Vidal
1940	Sur le plancher des vaches	Gaby

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