Actress Patricia Millardet in 1985 on the set of the TV movie - ROCHE / TF1 / SIPA

The actress Patricia Millardet died on April 13 of a heart attack at the San Camillo hospital in Rome, where she had been living for many years, the daily South West newspaper revealed on Wednesday after spotting the announcement of death broadcast in mid-April in honor of this native of Mont-de-Marsan (Landes).

Born in 1957, Patrica Millardet had made her debut in France in 1981 with  Claude Vidal's Fifty Fifty  . French spectators remember his roles alongside Sophie Marceau in La Boum 2 or even Isabelle Adjani and Michel Serrault in Claude Miller's Mortelle Randonnée .

Unforgettable Silvia Conti

But it was especially in Italy, "her adopted country", that she had mainly filmed notably in the role of the magistrate , Silvia Conti, in the series La Mafia, for five seasons.

In an interview given in 1990 to the Italian daily La Repubblica, she returned to the immense success of this role: “I think that Silvia pleases the public because she is moral, honest and available. (…) The writers have written a perfect role  ”.

Morta Patricia Millardet, la giudice della 'Piovra' https://t.co/B7AFxqQfG0

- Repubblica (@repubblica) April 13, 2020

In 2002, the actress had to deny the rumor that she would have attempted suicide, explaining that she had passed out after having followed a diet too severe to lose weight in anticipation of a role, recalled La Repubblica, in the article published in tribute to the actress on the day of her disappearance.

According to Sud Ouest, "she will be buried in the Villeneuve-de-Marsan family vault as soon as the current situation allows."

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