Paris (AFP)
The actress Catherine Rich, noticed in the theater, in successful series like "The Big Families" or in the cinema like "Go see mom, dad works", died at the age of 88, her daughter announced on Tuesday in AFP.
"My mother died yesterday at Bichat hospital after being unwell," actress Delphine Rich, born of her union with actor Claude Rich, who died in 2017, told AFP. She specified that the death was not was not due to Covid-19.
The funeral will be held on Friday at 3:00 p.m. at the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church in Orgeval (Yvelines), where the funeral of her husband, actor Claude Rich, famous for his role in "Les Uncle gunslingers ".
Born Catherine Renaudin on June 10, 1932, daughter of politician Philippe Renaudin, she began her career in the 1960s in the cinema with "La Chambre ardente" (1962) by Julien Duvivier alongside her husband.
She will appear in six other films, including "Go see mom, papa works" by François Leterrier (1978) and "Bancs publics (Versailles Rive-Droite)" by Bruno Podalydès (2009).
On the small screen, she took part in a dozen series, notably in the first season of "Maguy" and "Les Grandes famille" in the 1980s.
But it is above all in the theater that she is noticed, with six nominations for Molières, including two for Molière in a supporting role for "La Dame de chez Maxim" by Georges Feydeau, in a production by Bernard Murat.
She will also play in pieces by Sacha Guitry, Vaclav Havel, Tom Stoppard and Tennessee Williams.
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