Sanda, Dominique (1948–)

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Sanda, Dominique (1948–)

French actress. Born Dominique Varaigne, Mar 11, 1948, in Paris, France.

Married at 16; divorced at 18; made film debut starring in Robert Bresson's Un femme douce (1969), followed by the lead in Vittorio De Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (In the Garden of the Finzi-Continis, 1970); appeared in Bertolucci's Il Conformista (1970) and 1900 (1976); won Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Prize for performance in L'Eredità Ferramonti; other films include The MacKintosh Man (1973), Steppenwolf (1974), Damnation Alley (1977) and Une chambre en ville (1982).