Christian marquand biography

French actor (1927–2000)

Christian Henri Marquand (15 March 1927 – 22 November 2000) was a French actor.

Early life

Marquand was born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, to a Spanish father and an Arab mother.

He was the brother of actor Serge Marquand and filmmaker Nadine Trintignant.^[1]

Career

Marquand's first film appearance was in 1946, as a footman in Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête).

After a few more small parts, he was prominently featured in Christian-Jaque's Lucrèce Borgia (1953) as one of Lucrezia's lovers, and as an Austrian soldier in Luchino Visconti's Senso (1954).

Christian marquand biography

In 1956, he was directed by Roger Vadim in And God Created Woman (Et Dieu... créa la femme) opposite Brigitte Bardot. That film's success led to starring roles in the movies No Sun in Venice (1957), Temptation (1959), and The Big Show (1960) and leads opposite actresses Maria Schell, Jean Seberg, and Annie Girardot.

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