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A French actress, born in Hats-de-Seine, France, as Simone Renée Roussel. She won the Most Popular Actress Award in 1955, 54, 53, 52, and 50. She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946, the Honorary Cesar Award in 1992, and the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from the Venice Film Festival in 1996. Morgan married 3 times and had one child. Her credits include Port of Shadows (1938), The Chase (1946), Pastoral Symphony (1946), and The Fallen Idol (1948). Michele Morgan has been one of the most popular actresses in France for five decades. She was born to a father who worked as a head in a perfume export factory before he became unemployed during the Depression in 1929. She left home at the age of 15 with her younger brother, Paul, to pursue an acting career, and she studied acting under the supervision of the actor René Simon. She appeared in many films as an extra to pay for her drama lessons. She caught the attention of director Marc Allegret, who presented her in the movie Gribouille (1937). She later went to Hollywood, but she did not stand out, so she returned to her homeland again. She separated from her husband, William Marshall, who took their son, Mike, from her and married her friend, actress Micheline Pressley, whom Morgan did not grudge because she treated her only son well. She continued her work and then focused on oil painting, writing poems, and design. She later focused on her television work in the eighties and nineties. She died in Hats-de-Seine, France, on December 20, 2016.
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