Biographies: Genevieve Page - Actor

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A French actress, born in Paris, as Genevieve Bronjeam. Genevieve was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award in 1962 and for an NSFC Award in 1969. She married Jean-Claude Bujard in 1959 and had two children. Among her most important works are El Cid (1961), Song Without End (1960), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), and Belle de Jour (1967). She was the daughter of the French art dealer Jacques Paul Bunyan and Germaine Catherine Lipman. She had a career spanning fifty years. She made her first French film, No Pity for Women (1951), then the joint Italian-French film Fanfan La Tulipe (1952). Since then, she has appeared in Italian, French, British, and American films. She continued working in cinema until 2003 when she devoted herself to theatrical work. Genevieve had a long and distinguished career on the French stage. In 1980, she won the French Critics’ Award for Best Theater Actress for her role in the play “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” which was presented at the Chaillot National Theater in Paris. She was also nominated for the Molière Theater Prize in 1996 for her role in the play "Colombe", and she starred in the play “The Great Forest,” which was held at the Bonis du Nord Theater in Paris in 2009.

• 4 January 2024
• Toqa Hesham