Before the age of twenty-one, DominiqueSanda -- tall, blond and coolly mysterious -- had already left a permanent imprint on cinema history.
Born Dominique Varaigne in 1948 in Paris, Sanda horrified her family when she escaped her convent education and upper-class Parisian life by marrying at the age of 15 and enrolling in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study painting.
Early in her career, Sanda spent time in Hollywood, but has preferred living in Paris while continuing to work around the world.
A highly successful fashion model before reaching the age of 20, Paris-born DominiqueSanda was still enough of an "unfamiliar" face to appeal to director Robert Bresson.
It is difficult to tell how much of Dominique's excellent performance was due to her own innate ability or to Bresson's painstaking tutelage, but the fact remains that the film firmly established the actress as a top screen personality.
She went on to deliver first-rate work in such films as Vitorio De Sica's Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970), John Huston's The Mackintosh Man (1973) and Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976), and was equally noteworthy under the direction of Mauro Bolognini in The Inheritance (1976), for which she won a Cannes Festival prize.
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