Catherine Spaak



Catherine Spaak (born 3 April 1945) is a French-Italian actress and singer.

Career
Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (Ile-de-France).

Spaak spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Spaak was the lead actress in at least 12 movies. As a singer, she was regarded by some as the Italian equivalent of French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, some of whose songs she recorded in 1963. Born into a firmly anticlerical family, at the age of 18 she decided to embrace Catholicism (now she considers herself a Buddhist).

Selected filmography

 * Sweet Deceptions (1960)
 * Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)
 * Crazy Desire (1961)
 * Three Faces of Sin (1961)
 * Il Sorpasso (1962)
 * Of Wayward Love (1962)
 * Eighteen in the Sun (1962)
 * The Girl from Parma (1963)
 * The Empty Canvas (1963)
 * The Warm Life (1963)
 * Three Nights of Love (1964)
 * Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
 * Circle of Love (1964)
 * Made in Italy (1965)
 * Madamigella di Maupin (1965)
 * The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965)
 * The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (1965)
 * Adultery Italian Style (1966)
 * Break Up (1967)
 * Hotel (1967)
 * A Complicated Girl (1968)
 * The Libertine (1969)
 * If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
 * Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969)
 * The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
 * Ripped Off (1972)
 * Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
 * Dear Parents (1973)
 * My Darling Slave (1973)
 * La via dei babbuini (1974)
 * Take a Hard Ride (1975)
 * Febbre da cavallo (1976)
 * Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi (1978)
 * Catherine and I (1980)
 * Sunday Lovers (1980)
 * The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
 * Miele di donna (1981)
 * Claretta (1984)
 * Secret Scandal (1989)
 * Une famille formidable (TV, 1993)
 * Zen (TV, 2011)