French actress, singer and presenter Catherine Spaak dies

Actress

, the face of post-war

, died yesterday Sunday at the age of

in a clinic in the Italian capital, the RAI public broadcaster reported today.

In

, during the television promotion of his new movie "La Festa" he revealed that he had suffered a

.

She was the daughter of Belgian screenwriter

and French actress

, and the niece of

one of the "founding fathers" of Europe.

"A multifaceted, cultured and elegant artist who has found in our country a home that has welcomed and loved her" is leaving, the

, Dario Franceschini, said of the actress.

Her fame exploded in

when, at just 20 years old, she starred in, among others, films such as

by Dino Risi, where she was the almost unknown daughter of Vittorio Gassman, or "

, where she played an unscrupulous teenager.

During his long film career, Spaak has worked with some of the

, such as Mario Monicelli in "L'armata Brancaleone";

Nanni Loy in "Made in Italy" or Luigi Comencini in "Il Bugiardo", and also recently with Paolo Virzì in the 2012 film "Il piú grande di tutti".

But above all she was known to the general public by

on Rai3 and, in the early eighties, she was also the first

where she also proved to be a person of great culture and intelligence.

She was married four times

, the first in 1963, when she was very young, with Fabrizio Capucci.

The union lasted only a few months, when she experienced the drama of having

from her for having abandoned the marriage.

Later she married the singer Johnny Dorelli, whose union lasted 15 years and with whom she

, Gabriele.

In 1993 she married the architect Daniel Rey, with whom she spent 17 years, and then she married Vladimiro Tuselli.

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