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  • PLACE OF DEATH: Auteuil-Anthouillet, France
  • Originally: Simone Kaminker
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Simone Signoret was a French actress who was the first French person to win an Academy Award (for Room at the Top, 1959). She was married to Yves Montand.


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Simone Signoret was a French actress who was the first French person to win an Academy Award (for Room at the Top, 1959). She was married to the actor Yves Montand, for whom she divorced her first husband. During World War II, she changed her original last name of Kaminker to avoid being persecuted as a Jew. After the war, she earned leading roles in a number of films, including Les Diaboliques.

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