Three months after Catherine Deneuve, another icon of French cinema was hospitalized this weekend in emergency in Paris. According to information from BFMTV, which Le Parisien is able to confirm, Nathalie Baye, 71, was transferred by firefighters Saturday morning to a Paris hospital, while undergoing medical examinations in a clinic in the south of the capital .
Contacted, the agent of the actress confirms the hospitalization and evokes "bronchopulmonary complications after a flu". However, she denies any cardiac arrest mentioned at first.
Revealed in 1973 by François Truffaut's "La Nuit africaine", Nathalie Baye toured with the greatest: Jean-Luc Godard, Bertrand Blier, Nicole Garcia, Tonie Marshall, Claude Chabrol, Xavier Beauvois, Xavier Dolan, Steven Spielberg…
Throughout her career, the former companion of Johnny Hallyday, mother of Laura Smet, won four Césars (notably for Le Petit Lieutenant and La Balance) and the prize for best actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1991. Recently , Nathalie Baye has been in the credits for series like "Dix pour cent" and "Nox", broadcast in 2018 on Canal +.