Marie Mergey(1922-2017)
- Actress
Born in 1922, French character actress Marie Mergey appeared mainly in
bit parts. Her career however, spanning sixty-odd years, is a model of
longevity. And every rule having an exception, she did play two
important roles. Her sharp cheekbones and jawline indeed allowed her to
play two memorable peevish wives, married to Bourvil in Claude
Autant-Lara's 'La jument verte'(1959) and to Pierre Mondy in the same
director's 'Le comte de Monte Cristo' (1961). Curiously, her roles
dwindled after that but nature decided to soften her features and she
reappeared in the mid-eighties as the ideal grandmother or the old lady
you meet on the bus or at the butcher's. She can occasionally get
mysterious and disturbing though, like in Franck Allera's remarkable
short 'Sentence finale' (2005).
