In film festivals, theater meetings, we spotted her quickly, silhouette in fine branch, tormented helmet of silver hair bouncing in mischievous locks on her forehead and contrasting with her big dark eyes. We learned of the death, this Thursday at the beginning of the afternoon, of lung cancer, at 68, of the French-American actress, screenwriter, producer and director Tonie Marshall.
Known in the profession, less of the general public despite a Césars for best director obtained in 2000 - the only award obtained by a woman in this category in the history of the ceremony for "Venus Beauty (Institute)", worn by four ladies and gentlemen, Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou, Emmanuelle Seigner and Bulle Ogier, who evoked the world of beauticians.
In the theater or on the small screen, she was the discreet. Hidden behind the curtain of successful shows or series that were, co-written and produced by Jean-Michel Ribes, now boss of the Théâtre du Rond-Point, or the writer and illustrator Roland Topor, "Palace", " Thank you Bernard ”or“ Batailles ”. Ribes said this very nice thing about her friend on Thursday: "She never made me sad. "
And to add: “She was very courageous, fighter and very funny. Very committed and light and always caring, never giving lessons with ideas, a real point of view. "She was lively, laughing, warm, crazy about cinema and life. A beautiful and good person ”added in a tweet Gilles Jacob, former president of the Cannes Film Festival. From the announcement of his disappearance, the tributes continued to rain.
She had championed the cause of women victims of violence
Daughter of American actor William Marshall and Micheline Presle, Tonie, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine and who spent her childhood in front of a cult cinema, the Studio des Ursulines in the 5th arrondissement, was the half -sister of Mike Marshall, son of Michèle Morgan, who also died in 2005 of lung cancer.
It was as an actress that she had taken her first steps in the seventh art, in 1972, in "The most important event since man has walked on the Moon", by Jacques Demy. In a very light register, with comic effects supported, she had embodied a history-geography teacher in a school work signed Claude Zidi, "Les Sous-doués".
His first film behind the camera, "Pentimento" will offer Antoine de Caunes his first first role. Catherine Deneuve and William Hurt ("Closer to Paradise"), Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche and François Cluzet will join her in "France Boutique". As everything is forgotten very quickly, it is not bad to remember, in this tormented period that the Caesars are going through, that it was she who called the assistance, during the ceremony of 2018, to wear a white armband for champion the cause of women victims of violence.
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Since Thursday, a mother has been orphaned by her daughter. Her name is Micheline Presle and she is 97 years old.