Yvonne Monlaur
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1935-12-15
Day of Death
2017-04-18 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Yvonne Monlaur
Biography
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Yvonne Monlaur (*December 15, 1939 † April 18, 2017) was a retired French film actress of the late 1950s and 1960s best known for her roles in the Hammer horror films.
Her father's a White Russian count; her mother's a ballet dancer.
She starred in the 1958 Italian film Three Strangers in Rome which was amongst Claudia Cardinale's earliest films and in 1960 in the horror film Circus of Horrors alongside prominent actors in British film such as Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence. In 1960, she also starred in the Hammer horror film The Brides of Dracula alongside other noted British actors of the day Peter Cushing and Freda Jackson and in The Terror of the Tongs (1961) with Christopher Lee.
Monlaur screentested for the role of Domino Derval in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The role eventually went to another French actress, Claudine Auger. After a string of German and Italian films, Monlaur left films to return to Paris. Now she continues to live there. Of late she has attended a few film conventions, which have included salutes to Hammer films.
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Known For
Acting
(2008)
Legend of Hammer: Vampires
as Self
(1966)
Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
as Violet
(1965)
Mission to Caracas
as Muriel
(1965)
Skies Above
as Françoise
(1965)
(1964)
License to Kill
as Yvonne
(1963)
(1963)
Night of Lust
as Miss Rivière / Nora Markriff
(1963)
Because, Because of a Woman
as La soubrette
(1962)
Time to Remember
as Suzanne
(1962)
Ladies' Man
as Claudia
(1962)
The Hawk of the Caribbean
as Arica Mageiras
(1961)
The Terror of the Tongs
as Lee
(1961)
Dying as Hierarchs
as Rosalina Merletti
(1960)
The Brides of Dracula
as Marianne Danielle
(1960)
(1960)
Circus of Horrors
as Nicole Vanet
(1960)
Inn for Trouble
as Yvette Dupres
(1959)
Adventure in Capri
as Yvonne
(1959)
La cento chilometri
as Elena
(1959)
Spavaldi e innamorati
as Sylvia
(1959)
Destinazione Sanremo
as Anna
(1959)
Quel tesoro di papà
as Marina
(1958)
3 Strangers in Rome
as Nanda Colombo
(1958)
Love at First Sight
as Elvira
(1957)
The Twilight Girls
as Une grande
(1957)
Non sono più guaglione
as Nennella
(1957)
Les Lavandières du Portugal
as Nadine
(1956)
Honoré de Marseille
as Gyptis
(1956)
Mannequins of Paris
as Janine
(1955)
Thirteen at the Table
as (uncredited)