Yvonne Monlaur
Known For
Acting
Born
1935-12-15 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Died
2017-04-18
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yvonne Monlaur (*December 15, 1939 † April 18, 2017) was a retired French film actress of the late 1950s and 1960s best known for her roles in the Hammer horror films. Her father's a White Russian count; her mother's a ballet dancer. She starred in the 1958 Italian film Three Strangers in Rome which was amongst Claudia Cardinale's earliest films and in 1960 in the horror film Circus of Horrors alongside prominent actors in British film such as Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence. In 1960, she also starred in the Hammer horror film The Brides of Dracula alongside other noted British actors of the day Peter Cushing and Freda Jackson and in The Terror of the Tongs (1961) with Christopher Lee. Monlaur screentested for the role of Domino Derval in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The role eventually went to another French actress, Claudine Auger. After a string of German and Italian films, Monlaur left films to return to Paris. Now she continues to live there. Of late she has attended a few film conventions, which have included salutes to Hammer films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yvonne Monlaur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
The Third Man
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
The Brides of Dracula
as Marianne Danielle
Death Runs After Them
as Janet Winters
It Started in Naples
Circus of Horrors
as Nicole Vanet
The Terror of the Tongs
as Lee
The Twilight Girls
as Une grande
License to Kill
as Yvonne
Ladies' Man
as Claudia
Mission to Caracas
as Muriel
Non sono più guaglione
as Nennella
Inn for Trouble
as Yvette Dupres
Time to Remember
as Suzanne
La cento chilometri
as Elena
Destinazione Sanremo
as Anna
Because, Because of a Woman
as La soubrette
3 Strangers in Rome
as Nanda Colombo
Thirteen at the Table
as (uncredited)
Quel tesoro di papà
as Marina