Sylvia Bataille
Actor, Film actor
1908 – 1993
Who was Sylvia Bataille?
Sylvia Bataille was a French actress, born Sylvia Maklès in Paris, of Romanian-Jewish descent. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille. Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until 1946. Starting in 1938, she was a companion of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with whom, in 1941, she had a daughter, Judith, today Judith Miller. Sylvia Bataille married Jacques Lacan in 1953.
A pupil of Charles Dullin, Sylvia Bataille's theatrical debut was with the agit-prop troupe Groupe Octobre, directed by Jacques Prévert. Her film debut came in 1933, and in 1936 she played her most memorable role in Partie de campagne directed by Jean Renoir. Her final appearance was in 1950.
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- Born
- Nov 1, 1908
Paris - Also known as
- Sylvia Maklès
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Georges Bataille
(1928 - 1946) - Jacques Lacan
(1938 - 1953/07/17) - Jacques Lacan
(1953/07/17 - 1981/09/09)
- Georges Bataille
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Lived in
- Paris
- Died
- Dec 23, 1993
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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