Yvonne Monlaur
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yvonne Monlaur (*December 15, 1939 † April 18, 2017) was a retired French film actress of the late 1950s and 1960s best known for her roles in the Hammer horror films. Her father's a White Russian count; her mother's a ballet dancer. She starred in the 1958 Italian film Three Strangers in Rome which was amongst Claudia Cardinale's earliest films and in 1960 in the horror film Circus of Horrors alongside prominent actors in British film such as Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence. In 1960, she also starred in the Hammer horror film The Brides of Dracula alongside other noted British actors of the day Peter Cushing and Freda Jackson and in The Terror of the Tongs (1961) with Christopher Lee. Monlaur screentested for the role of Domino Derval in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The role eventually went to another French actress, Claudine Auger. After a string of German and Italian films, Monlaur left films to return to Paris. Now she continues to live there. Of late she has attended a few film conventions, which have included salutes to Hammer films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yvonne Monlaur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: December 15, 1935
Place of Birth: Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Known For
Filmography
as Self
as Janet Winters
as Violet
as Muriel
as Françoise
as Yvonne
as Miss Rivière / Nora Markriff
as La soubrette
as Suzanne
as Claudia
as Arica Mageiras
as Rosalina Merletti
as Lee
as Marianne Danielle
as Nicole Vanet
as Yvette Dupres
as Elena
as Anna
as Marina
as Sylvia
as Yvonne
as Nanda Colombo
as Elvira
as Nennella
as Nadine
as Une grande
as Gyptis
as Janine
as (uncredited)