Marika Nicolette Green (born 21 June 1943) is a Swedish-French actress.
Life and career Green was born in Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholm County, the daughter of a French mother, Jeanne Green-Le Flem, born in Paris, and Bror Lennart Green, a Swedish journalist. Her paternal grandmother was the photographer Mia Green and her maternal grandfather was French composer and music critic Paul Le Flem.Le Flem's family genealogy Article published in Ouest-France, january 24, 2007 : "Fifteen days after her husband, Lennart Green, Jeanne Green-Le Flem [...] died Friday aged 95 [...]. The ceremony took place in the privacy of the family [...] her daughter, actress Marika Green, her granddaughters Joy and Eva Green [...] and her daughter in law Marlene Jobert. Madame Green-Le Flem, daughter of [French] composer Paul Le Flem, was buried in the family vault in the cemetery of Vieux-Marché [near the city of Lannion, Brittanny, France]. She left Sweden for France in 1953.
She played the lead female role in Robert Bresson's Pickpocket at the age of 16.
She is the aunt of actress Eva Green and older sister of Walter Green, husband of actress and author Marlène Jobert.Walter Green, incidentally, played Jacques, the man rejected by Marie in Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar -http://www.mastersofcinema.org/bresson/TheNews.html#2005-10-29 Green married Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger, regular collaborator of director Michael Haneke.
Filmography
Pickpocket (1959) by Robert Bresson : Jeanne Le Récit de Rebecca (1964) by Paul Vecchiali Five Ashore in Singapore (1967) by Bernard Toublanc-Michel Le Golem (television - 1967) by Louis Pauwels and Jean Kerchbron Rider on the Rain (1969) by René Clément L'Affaire Crazy Capo (1973) Emmanuelle (1974) by Just Jaeckin : Bee Le Bal des voyous (1968) by Jean-Claude Dague La Fille d'en face (1968) by Jean-Daniel Simon Until September (1984) by Richard Marquand Hanna en mer (1991) by Christian Berger
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