The actress had resorted to a transplant in 2003, which made her the first HIV-positive heart transplant recipient in France.
She was a fiery actress. Charlotte Valandrey embodied for many the rage to live and to fight. She will have made it to the end.
For the most cinephiles, she will always remain Nadia, this endearing adolescent rebellious to the sensuality who awakens in the film by Véra Belmont Red Kissreleased in 1985.
Unfortunately, the actress did not survive her second heart transplant for long and passed away on July 13 at the age of 53.
Born November 29, 1968 in Paris, Anne-Charlotte Pascal (her real name) grew up in Brittany in a wealthy family, then in the 12e arrondissement of Paris in the early 1980s.
In 1985, at the age of 16, while studying at Paul-Valéry high school, she began her acting career by taking the pseudonym of Charlotte Valandrey in homage to Val-André, this seaside resort in Côtes-d’Armor where she went on vacation from the age of 6.
“Red Kiss”
Alongside Lambert Wilson, she began by shooting Red Kissa dramatic comedy that is as political as it is romantic, in which she plays a rebellious teenager, an activist in the Young Communists, in the Paris of the 1950s. Wounded during a demonstration, she is rescued by a young photographer from Paris Match performed by Lambert Wilson. Between them, the attraction is immediate. It is love “red kiss” perfectly filmed by Véra Belmont who tells here his youth. This period Time.news, which has since become a classic of 1980s cinema, will be selected at the 1986 Berlinale, and will allow Charlotte Valandrey to obtain the silver bear for best actress, followed by a nomination for the César du most promising Actress.
Everything works for him. The press compares her to Isabelle Adjani or Sophie Marceau. The same year, she turns in the clip of David Bowie As the World Falls Downthen continues with the film Taxi Boy d’Alain Page, Gannets by Yves Simoneau or even Fucking Fernand by Gérard Mordillat, in 1987. During this time of recklessness, Charlotte Valandrey herself recounts maintaining liaisons with “an addicted musician, and other at-risk boys”. A few days before his eighteenth birthday, it’s a cold shower. She learns that she is HIV positive. If she contracts the virus, she does not develop the disease.
A confession book
But everything becomes more complicated for her. She is not retained for the role of white wedding finally played by Vanessa Paradis… She turns to television with good reason and joins the detective series Les Cordiers, judge and cop who made the heyday of TF1 from 1992 to 2005, in the role of Myriam Cordier opposite Pierre Mondy and Bruno Madinier.
Married since the end of the 1990s, mother of a daughter named Tara, Charlotte Valandrey finds balance. She multiplies the roles and appearances in various television films, series and programs while illustrating herself in the theater and in writing. In 2005 appears love in the blooda confession book where she reveals her situation, and the heart transplant she underwent after several heart attacks, a first in France for a person with HIV.
This big bookstore success frees her from a heavy secret while breaking a taboo. The work is adapted for television in 2007. She plays her own role. Between 2017 and 2019, she returns to the series Tomorrow belongs to us.
On June 14, the actress announced that she was waiting for a second heart transplant because hers was coming. “at the end of the road”. The transplant of his third heart will not have taken.
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