Charlotte Valandrey

Charlotte Valandrey 29 November 1968 13 July 2022 was a French actress and author After early success she was widely tipped for stardom but her career took a more modest course until the release of her autobiography in 2005 Born AnneCharlotte Pascal into an affluent family Valandrey grew up in Brittany in northwestern France From the age of six she lived in the small coastal town of ValAndré from which she took her professional name in 1985 Valandreys debut film was Véra Belmonts 1985 political drama Red Kiss in which she played Nadia Her highly acclaimed performance as a young communist in 1950s Paris was rewarded with a César award nomination for Most Promising Actress the following year but she eventually lost to Charlotte Gainsbourg She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival In 1986 she appeared in the music video for David Bowies song As the World Falls Down from the soundtrack for the movie Labyrinth 1986 although the video went unreleased until 1993 After making her debut at the age of sixteen in the film Red Kiss she lived alone in a studio that her parents bought for her Carefree and uninformed about the dangers involved she had affairs with a drugaddicted musician and other boys at risk In 1986 a few days before her eighteenth birthday she learned that she was HIVpositive In 1999 she met Arthur Lecaisne with whom she married on 17 July 1999 at PléneufValAndré At the beginning of 2000 they had a daughter Tara who is HIVnegative While separating from Arthur in 2002 and following a triple therapy which damaged her heart and caused her two heart attacks her heart broke down necrotic and left her with only 10 heart capacity On 4 November 2003 she received a transplant In her book LAmour dans le sang published in 2005 she recounts her other love stories with her cardiologist or Yann an architect whom she intimately believes to be the husband of her late donor In March 2007 after selling over 280000 copies of her book Charlotte gave approval for its adaptation in the TV movie LAmour dans le sang Produced by Dominique Besnehard for Mon Voisin Productions it was first broadcast on 23 November 2008 on France 3 On 8 June 2022 she announced that she was waiting for a second heart transplant because of new health problems She received it on 14 June at the PitiéSalpêtrière hospital but the transplant did not take Charlotte Valandrey died on 13 July 2022 at the age of 53 Her funeral took place in PléneufValAndré In the press release announcing the death the family indicates that a tribute would be paid to her in Paris in September Charlotte was a patron of the Greffe de vie Foundation of Life Registry and was committed to the cause of organ donation and transplantation Source Article Charlotte Valandrey from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30