We all had something of Nathalie Baye in us, who died at 77

She embodied so many things and so many emotions Nathalie Baye. A great actress of course but not only that. She was the French woman, she was France and that’s why Steven Spielberg offered her the role of Leonardo DiCaprio’s mother in “Catch Me If You Can”. If a GI at the Liberation – played by Christopher Walken – fell in love with a young French woman and brought her back to the country, she would necessarily have the face of Nathalie Baye, who disappeared this Friday evening from her Parisian home, her relatives reported in a press release, specifying that she suffered from Lewy body disease.

And if the great American filmmaker had chosen the latter, it is also because this admirer of the New Wave and of François Truffaut had noticed the actress in “The American Night”, “The Man Who Loved Women” – and of course she was part of it – or even “The Green Room”, her greatest role for the director, that of a woman so alive haunted by death.

By Editor