Her relatives, friends, sisters and colleagues… everyone keeps a pretty image, in their minds, of Charlotte Valandrey. That of a strong woman, who fought until the end, but unfortunately succumbed to the transplant of her third heart, on July 13th. Aged 53, the actress had traveled the scenes of the whole country, the film sets, and had started her career, very early, in the cinema.
It was at 15 that Charlotte Valandrey became an actress. By playing Nadia in the film Red Kiss, by Véra Belmont, the actress had seduced the public as well as the critics. For this performance, she was nominated for a César in the Best Female Hope category and won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. This period had turned his life upside down, but also marked, strongly, his stage partner, the brilliant Lambert Wilson.
It was disproportionate, it was a teenager…
“We lived together the wonderful story of the film, this prize in Berlinhe recalls to the Telegram. But it was disproportionate, she was a teenager, who combined grace and bad humor, that’s what Vera Belmont had caught, almost a little too soon.“It was following this first success that Charlotte Valandrey moved to the city of Paris and met, two years later, the man she nicknamed”the gothic prince“in her writings, the member of a well-known rock band who gave her HIV—whose identity she never revealed to avoid”problems“.
His death shocked me
Since the release of his book love in the blood, in 2005, Charlotte Valandrey had become, in spite of herself, the standard-bearer of a fight against the disease. “Her death devastated me, she was incredibly brave and naturalrecalls Lambert Wilson. She was brave to tell and defend her story the way she did…”
Find the full interview with Lambert Wilson in the newspaper Le Télégraphe.