Actor

Colette Marchand

April 29, 1925 · Paris, France

Colette Janine Marchand (29 April 1925 – 5 June 2015) was a French prima ballerina and actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1952 for her performance as Marie Charlet in Moulin Rouge, directed by John Huston.

During the height of her dance career she was considered one of the greatest dancers in Europe, known as Les jambes (The Legs), along with Violetta Elvin, Zizi Jeanmaire, Yvette Chauviré, Janine Charrat, and Margot Fonteyn. Marchand traveled around the world as a dancer and danced with many of the greatest ballet dancers of the 1940s and 1950s.

Often works with

Michel Simon
2 titles together
At the Order of the Czar, Hungarian Rhapsody
Willy Fritsch
2 titles together
At the Order of the Czar, Hungarian Rhapsody

Full filmography · 4

At the Order of the Czar
as Princess Caroline
1954
Hungarian Rhapsody
as Caroline von Say-Wittgenstein
1954
Moulin Rouge
as Marie Charlet
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Venom and Eternity
as (voice)
1952