Marie Laforêt was a French folk, pop and rock singer as well as a successful
actress. Born in Soulac-sur-Mer, Gironde, France in 1939, Laforêt lived her
early childhood in the shadow of World War II. Her father was captured and held
as a prisoner of war in Germany until the allied liberation in 1945 while she,
her mother and sister lived in occupied France. Following the war the family
moved to Valenciennes and then to Paris where Laforêt, having considered
becoming a nun, instead discovered the dramatic arts during secondary education.
She got an unlikely start in show busine...