Macha Meril

Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina, known by her stage name Macha Méril, is a French actress and writer. She started acting in films in 1959 and later worked with Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Buñuel. Macha Meril appeared nude in Vagabond (1985), sharing the scene with Sandrine Bonnaire and Laurence Cortadellas. She was born on September 3, 1940, in Rabat, in what is now Morocco. Her father's side comes from the Russian princely Gagarin family, and her mother's from Ukrainian nobility. She is best known as Helga Ulmann in Dario Argento's Deep Red and for Aldo Lado's Night Train Murders (1975). Other notable films include Godard's A Married Woman, Buñuel's Belle de jour and Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette. She also had a part in the Quebec television series Lance et Compte.

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