She had the makings of a blonde bombshell and could have ended up in film history annals as merely a second-rate 'Brigitte Bardot' who allegedly died of heart failure in 1980 at the age 42 after years of alcohol and drug abuse. Her fourth husband passed away in 2003.
Sons with first husband Robert Hossein : Igor and Pierre.
Won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Una storia moderna - Lape regina ("The Conjugal Bed").
Sister of actresses Odile Versois , Hlne Vallier and Olga Badar-Poliakoff.
She outlived all her three sisters.
