Graduated from the Conservatoire de la rue blanche (1954).
Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1992
Her autobiography "Vivre d'aimer" was published in 1989.
Married Renato Salvatori after working with him on the set of the Rocco and His Brothers (1960). The couple later separated, but never divorced.
Mother of Giulia Salvatori.
Played Isabelle Huppert's mother in two films: Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976) and The Piano Teacher (2001).
Revealed that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003 (21 September 2006).
She has been living in a Parisian medical house (along with her older brother Jean, also diagnosed with Alzheimer), since mid 2007. During the Summer of 2010, the press revealed that she has now lost all her memories because of Alzheimer disease, and doesn't show any streaks of lucidity anymore as she did until 2009.