Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1896-09-17
Day of Death
1996-01-13
Place of Birth
Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
Denise Grey
Biography
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).
Filmography (88)
La soupière
1993
A Fine Romance
1991
The Seasons of Pleasure
1988
Le Gaffeur
1985
Le jardin d'Eponine
1984
Le Voleur de feuilles
1984
La vie est trop courte
1984
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
1983
The Party 2
1982
The Party
1980
La Vénus de Milo
1973
Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
1971
Hello-Goodbye
1970
Le Mari, la femme et la mort
1970
