She will only have known the movie sets a few years before her death.
Marianne Garcia, who began her acting career in 2013, died on April 19 from cancer.
She was 66 years old.
Spotted by director Louis-Julien Petit, she inherited a small role in
Discount
before appearing in the comedy
Les Invisibles
, where she played a homeless person named Lady Di, alongside Corinne Masiero, Audrey Lamy and Noémie Lvovsky.
Spectators were also able to see him in
Mine de rien,
by Mathias Mlekuz with Arnaud Ducret, Philippe Rebbot.
Or more recently in
Retirement home
, his last shoot, with Kev Adams and Gérard Depardieu.
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Kev Adams paid tribute to him on Instagram.
“
Yesterday a great actress left us, Marianne Garcia was an extraordinary woman and actress, with an unusual and inspiring story, who already during the filming
of Retirement home
was fighting courageously against this filthy cancer.
She overwhelmed us in the film
Les Invisibles
and made us cry with laughter in the role of Léontine.
I know how proud she was of that movie.
I will never forget his kindness, his humor and his courage.
It was an honor to know you Marianne I will never forget your valuable advice.
Farewell Leontine.
Farewell Marianne.
Rest in peace
,” he wrote on Wednesday.
Originally from Roubaix, Marianne Garcia had a difficult life, recalls
La Voix du Nord
, between a childhood marked by poverty, abuse and a homeless life until she was 17 years old.
"
I draw my strength in the most difficult moments, I draw happiness whenever I am not unhappy.
I take threads, I make a little chewing gum, and then I reuse
it, ”she confided to France3.
This painful existence, Marianne Garcia tells it in an autobiography entitled
La Ch'tite Courageuse,
published
in
September.
“Thanks to this book, Marianne gives her readers a part of herself: a fighter, a resistance fighter with humor as a shield.
His life is in line with the greatest social comedies:
“Since we have nothing left, we have everything to gain”
,
declared the director Louis-Julien Petit who had pushed him to tell his story. .
“
Our Marianne has had several lives, I am proud to be part of one of them.
I love you very much.
See you soon
, ”adds the filmmaker.
Marianne Garcia's funeral will take place on Saturday April 23 at 12:30 p.m. at the Wattrelos crematorium in northern France.
An online kitty has been opened to finance his funeral.