Sad news on this Wednesday, July 13. Actress Charlotte Valandrey has died at the age of 53, her agent has announced.AFP. The actress revealed her HIV status in 2005 with her autobiography love in the blood, which had been a hit in bookstores with nearly 180,000 sales. A TV movie (broadcast in November 2008 on France 3, editor’s note) was subsequently adapted and produced by his friend, Dominique Besnehard. Her triple therapy had exhausted her heart and she had recourse to a transplant in 2003, which made her the first HIV-positive heart transplant patient in France.
She announced on June 14 that she was going to undergo a new heart transplant. “My graft has just arrived and it was high time”she wrote on her account instagram.
As a reminder, Charlotte Valandrey landed her first role in 1985 in Véra Belmont’s film, Rouge Baiser, for which she was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress the following year at the 1986 Berlinale in only 16 years old. She is also nominated for the César for best female hope for this role.
She was particularly known for her roles in television series, such as Les Cordier, judge and Flic or Tomorrow belongs to us. The actress had also given the reply to Jean-Luc Reichmann in the last season of the series Léo Matteï, on TF1.
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Adam Javal-Fauconnier