Paris (AFP)
Marie-José Nat, familiar figure of the screens in the 60s and 70s and actress of "Elise or the real life", died Thursday in Paris at the age of 79 years following a long illness, indicated her agent to AFP.
The actress, who was born in 1940 in Bonifacio to a Kabyle father and a Corsican mother, was directed by well-known directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Gérard Oury and Claude Autant-Lara, during a career both in cinema than on television.
This woman with eyes and very dark hair had received in 1974 the prize of female interpretation in Cannes for "Les Violons du Bal" by Michel Drach, autobiographical story of the director with whom she shared her life for more than a decade.
Before that, he had offered in 1967 one of his most beautiful roles in "Elise or the real life", the story of a young girl who makes love with an Algerian militant of the FLN (National Liberation Front, in struggle for the independence of Algeria), which then made controversy.
Marie-José Nat also worked for television, as in the hit series "The People of Mogador", saga in 13 episodes, broadcast from 1972.
She remarried in 2005 with the writer and painter Serge Rezvani, known to the public for being the author of famous songs, including "I have memory that flank" and "The whirlwind of life", interpreted by Jeanne Moreau.
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