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Denise Grey

17th September 1896 Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy Acting

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denise Grey, real name Édouardine Verthuy, was a French actress. Édouardine Grey was born Châtillon, in the Aosta Valley in north-west Italy, close to the French border. The city was almost totally French-speaking at the time. She was naturalized French on July 13, 1922. She started working in the film industry in 1915 in the silent film En famille, an adaptation of the novel by Hector Malot, before dedicating herself to theatre. She went back to working in films, now talkies, in the 1930s. She came to fame in the 1940s with films such as Monsieur Hector (1940), Boléro (1942) or Devil in the Flesh (1947). Old age did not put an end to her career. For example, in 1972, she starred in a French television series called Les Rois maudits. Thanks to the film La Boum, in which she plays "Poupette", the great-grandmother of Sophie Marceau, she gained recognition from a new audience growing up in the 1980s. She was a member of the Comédie-Française between 1944 and 1946 and between 1957 and 1958. She had a daughter: Suzanne Grey, also an actress, who was born on 28 June 1917 and died on 13 December 2005. In 1986, she sang Devenir vieux (Becoming Old). She died in 1996, a few months before reaching the age of 100. She rests next to her husband in the cemetery of Arradon (Morbihan).

88 Movies 10 TV Shows 98 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

The Party 2 poster
The Party 2 8th December 1982 as Poupette, François' grandmother, Vic's great-grandmother
The Party poster
The Party 17th December 1980 as Mrs Valadier aka 'Poupette', Vic's great grandmother
Mitsou poster
Mitsou 24th December 1956 as Estelle
Rasputin poster
Rasputin 19th July 1954 as La princesse Dikvona
Julietta poster
Julietta 17th June 1953 as Mme Valender - la mère de Julietta et Martine
Boléro poster
Boléro 25th March 1942 as Anne-Marie Houillier