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⚫ '''María Casares''' (21 November 1922 – 22 November 1996) was a ] actress and one of the most distinguished stars of the French stage and cinema. She was credited in France as '''Maria Casarès'''.
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⚫ '''María Victoria Casares y Pérez''' (21 November 1922 – 22 November 1996) was a ] actress and one of the most distinguished stars of the French stage and cinema. She was credited in France as '''Maria Casarès'''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1996-12-07 |title=Obituary:Maria Casares |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-maria-casares-1313344.html |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>


==Early life== ==Early life==
Casares was born '''María Victoria Casares y Pérez''' in ], ], the daughter of ], a minister in ]'s government and ], and of Gloria Pérez. She was a volunteer in Madrid hospitals already at age fourteen. Her father was a member of the Republican government so at the outbreak of the ] (1936), the family was forced to flee Spain. <ref name=iobit/> Her father went to London, but she and her mother sought refuge in Paris. Casares was born '''María Victoria Casares y Pérez''' in ], ], the daughter of ], a minister in ]'s government and ], and of Gloria Pérez. She was a volunteer in Madrid hospitals already at age fourteen. Her father was a member of the Republican government so at the outbreak of the ] (1936), the family was forced to flee Spain.<ref name=iobit/> Her father went to London, but she and her mother sought refuge in Paris.


There, María attended the Victor Duruy school, where she learned French and was befriended by a teacher and his Spanish wife, who inspired her to go into the theatre. After graduation, she took voice classes with ]. She enrolled in the ], where she won First Prize for tragedy and Second Prize for comedy. There, María attended the Victor Duruy school, where she learned French and was befriended by a teacher and his Spanish wife, who inspired her to go into the theatre. After graduation, she took voice classes with ]. She enrolled in the ], where she won First Prize for tragedy and Second Prize for comedy.


==Career== ==Career==
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In July 1942, she auditioned for ] who engaged her for his ]. There, over the course of the next three years, she appeared in several plays including, '']'' by ], '']'' by ], '']'' (''The Misunderstanding'') by ] (with whom she would later have a passionate affair), and an especially important premiere, ''Fédérico'', after ], with ]. In July 1942, she auditioned for ] who engaged her for his ]. There, over the course of the next three years, she appeared in several plays including, '']'' by ], '']'' by ], '']'' (''The Misunderstanding'') by ] (with whom she would later have a passionate affair), and an important premiere, ''Fédérico'', after ], with ].


===Film=== ===Film===


She began to appear in films. Her first film role was in ]'s '']'' (1945), one of the great classics of French cinema. She also made '']'' (1945) for ], ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' ('']'') (1948) for ], co-starring Gérard Philipe. For ], she played Death in his '']'' (1950) with ] and ] and in his '']'' (''Testament of Orpheus'') (1960). She began to appear in films. Her first film role was in ]'s '']'' (1945), one of the great classics of French cinema. She also made '']'' (1945) for ], ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' ('']'') (1948) for ], co-starring Gérard Philipe. For ], she played Death in his '']'' (1950) with ] and ] and in his '']'' (''Testament of Orpheus'') (1960).


In 1989, she was nominated for the ] in '']''. In 1989, she was nominated for the ] in '']''.


===Stage success=== ===Stage success===
From 1952 onward, although she continued to appear in occasional films, she devoted herself mainly to the stage. She joined the ], the ] and the ] under the leadership of ]. Before her, no one actor or actress of foreign origin had ever played at Comédie-Française. She toured extensively throughout the world, appearing in the great classics of French theatre, including, in 1958, ]'s '']'', ]'s ''Marie Tudor'' and ]' ''Le Triomphe de l'Amour'' (''The Triumph of Love'') on ]. From 1952 onward, although she continued to appear in occasional films, she devoted herself mainly to the stage. She joined the ], the ] and the ] under the leadership of ]. Before her, no one actor or actress of foreign origin had ever played at Comédie-Française. She toured extensively throughout the world, appearing in the great classics of French theatre, including, in 1958, ]'s '']'', ]'s ''Marie Tudor'' and ]'s ''Le Triomphe de l'Amour'' (''The Triumph of Love'') on ].


==Personal life and death== ==Personal life and death==
Casares took French nationality in 1975 and three years later married André Schlesser, an actor known professionally as ''Dade'', who had been her longtime companion and theatrical co-star.<ref name=iobit>{{cite news|author=John Calder|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarymaria-casares-1313344.html|title=Obituary:Maria Casares|newspaper=]|access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref> Casares took French nationality in 1975 and three years later married André Schlesser, an actor known professionally as ''Dade'', who had been her longtime companion and theatrical co-star.<ref name=iobit>{{cite news|author=John Calder|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarymaria-casares-1313344.html|title=Obituary:Maria Casares|newspaper=]|access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref>


She published her autobiography, ''Résidente privilégiée'' (''Privileged Resident'') in 1980, in which she described her 16-year affair with ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/1997/oct/15/biography.albertcamus|title=Camus and his women|work=]|date=October 15, 1997|access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref><ref>, ''ABC – Madrid'', June 12, 1997.</ref><ref>, ''The Independent'', October 11, 1997.</ref><ref>, ''Vanguardia'' (April 12, 2012).</ref><ref>Anna Mellado García – , ''CCOO''; accessed October 8, 2017.</ref> The couple never married, but their extensive correspondence, first published in France in late 2017, lasted from 1944, with a five year break to 1949, when they again had a chance meeting when their passion was rekindled until the end of Camus' life.<ref>{{cite book|title=] - Maria Casarès, Correspondance inédite (1944-1959)|lang=fr|editor=Catherine Camus|place=Paris|publisher=Gallimard - Édition de Béatrice Vaillant|series=Colléction Blanche|date=2017|isbn=9782072746161}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Marlowe|first=Lara|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/albert-camus-s-sizzling-letters-to-one-of-his-three-lovers-1.3304417|title=Albert Camus’s sizzling letters to one of his three lovers|work=The Irish Times|date=November 25, 2017|access-date=13 April 2018}}</ref><ref>"Albert Camus: A Life" by Olivier Todd (Chapter 34: "The Unique One")</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=LaCava|first=Stephanie|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/11/illicit-love-letters-albert-camus-and-maria-casares/|title=Illicit Love Letters: Albert Camus and Maria Casares|work=The Paris Review|date=April 11, 2018|access-date=April 13, 2018}}</ref> She starred in a number of Albert Camus's plays and often threatened to end their stormy affair over his refusal to leave ].<ref>"Camus: Portrait of a Moralist" by Stephen Eric Bronner (Chapter 3: "Resistance").</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Zaretsky|first=Robert|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-longer-the-person-i-was-the-dazzling-correspondence-of-albert-camus-and-maria-casares/#!|title='No Longer the Person I Was': The Dazzling Correspondence of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=March 4, 2018|access-date=April 13, 2018}}</ref> She published her autobiography, ''Résidente privilégiée'' (''Privileged Resident'') in 1980, in which she described her 16-year affair with ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/1997/oct/15/biography.albertcamus|title=Camus and his women|work=]|date=October 15, 1997|access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref><ref>, ''ABC – Madrid'', June 12, 1997.</ref><ref>, ''The Independent'', October 11, 1997.</ref><ref>, ''Vanguardia'' (April 12, 2012).</ref><ref>Anna Mellado García – , ''CCOO''; accessed October 8, 2017.</ref> The couple never married, but their extensive correspondence, first published in France in late 2017, lasted from 1944, with a five-year break to 1949, when they again had a chance meeting when their passion was rekindled until the end of Camus' life.<ref>{{cite book|title=] - Maria Casarès, Correspondance inédite (1944-1959)|language=fr|editor=Catherine Camus|place=Paris|publisher=Gallimard - Édition de Béatrice Vaillant|series=Colléction Blanche|date=2017|isbn=9782072746161}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Marlowe|first=Lara|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/albert-camus-s-sizzling-letters-to-one-of-his-three-lovers-1.3304417|title=Albert Camus's sizzling letters to one of his three lovers|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=November 25, 2017|access-date=13 April 2018}}</ref><ref>"Albert Camus: A Life" by Olivier Todd (Chapter 34: "The Unique One")</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=LaCava|first=Stephanie|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/11/illicit-love-letters-albert-camus-and-maria-casares/|title=Illicit Love Letters: Albert Camus and Maria Casares|work=The Paris Review|date=April 11, 2018|access-date=April 13, 2018}}</ref> She starred in a number of Albert Camus's plays and often threatened to end their stormy affair over his refusal to leave ].<ref>"Camus: Portrait of a Moralist" by Stephen Eric Bronner (Chapter 3: "Resistance").</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Zaretsky|first=Robert|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-longer-the-person-i-was-the-dazzling-correspondence-of-albert-camus-and-maria-casares/#!|title='No Longer the Person I Was': The Dazzling Correspondence of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=March 4, 2018|access-date=April 13, 2018}}</ref>


The actress died of ] at her country house, Château de La Vergne, in the village of ] in ], on the day after her 74th birthday.<ref></ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Thibaudat|first1=Jean-Pierre|title=La Vergne, habitée par Maria Casarès|url=http://next.liberation.fr/culture/2002/07/06/la-vergne-habitee-par-maria-casares_409355|access-date=January 4, 2018|publisher=Libération Next|date=July 6, 2002}}</ref> She bequeathed the property to the village. Today, the Domaine de la Vergne is a residence for artists and a setting for performances.And she was a kind warm hearted women and she had a heart of gold The actress died of ] at her country house, Château de La Vergne, in the village of ] in ], on the day after her 74th birthday.<ref></ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Thibaudat|first1=Jean-Pierre|title=La Vergne, habitée par Maria Casarès|url=http://next.liberation.fr/culture/2002/07/06/la-vergne-habitee-par-maria-casares_409355|access-date=January 4, 2018|publisher=Libération Next|date=July 6, 2002|archive-date=5 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105011755/http://next.liberation.fr/culture/2002/07/06/la-vergne-habitee-par-maria-casares_409355|url-status=dead}}</ref> She bequeathed the property to the village. Today, the Domaine de la Vergne is a residence for artists and a setting for performances.


==Filmography== ==Filmography==
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*'']'' (1946) Julia de Noirville *'']'' (1946) Julia de Noirville
*'']'' (1946) Julia de Terrenoire *'']'' (1946) Julia de Terrenoire
*''L'Amour autour de la maison'' (1947) Thérèse * '']'' (1947) Thérèse
*''La Septième porte'' (1948) * '']'' (1947)
*''Bagarres'' (1948) Carmelle *''Bagarres'' (1948) Carmelle
*'']'' (1948) La duchesse Gina de San Severina *'']'' (1948) La duchesse Gina de San Severina
* '']'' (1950) * '']'' (1950)
*'']'' (1950) (voice) *'']'' (1950) (voice)
*'']'' (1950) The Princess *'']'' (1950) The Princess
*'']'' (1951) Caroline Bessier *'']'' (1951) Caroline Bessier
*''Le Jardins du Seigneur'' (1954) (voice) *''Le Jardins du Seigneur'' (1954) (voice)
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==Bibliography== ==Sources==
* ''Résidente privilégiée'' by Maria Casarès, Fayard, 1980 {{ISBN|2-213-00779-9}} * ''Résidente privilégiée'', Fayard, 1980, {{ISBN|2-213-00779-9}}
* ''El periodismo es un cuento'' by Manuel Rivas (chapter: "La mujer rebelde"), Alfaguara, 1997. {{ISBN| 9788420479071 }} * ''El periodismo es un cuento'' by Manuel Rivas (chapter: "La mujer rebelde"), Alfaguara, 1997, {{ISBN| 9788420479071 }}
* ''Maria Casarès: L'étrangère'' by Javier Figuero & Marie-Hélène Carbonel, Fayard, 2005, {{ISBN|9782213624013}} * ''Maria Casarès: L'étrangère'' by Javier Figuero & Marie-Hélène Carbonel, Fayard, 2005, {{ISBN|9782213624013}}
* ''La extranjera'' by Javier Figuero, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, February 2017, {{ISBN|9781542994071}} * ''La extranjera'' by Javier Figuero, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, February 2017, {{ISBN|9781542994071}}
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*{{Find a Grave}} *{{Find a Grave}}


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French actress (1922 – 1996)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Casares and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.
María Casarès
A dark haired woman of about 22 years of age wearing a black, hooded outfit, stares off to the rightMaría Casarès, photographed by Studio Harcourt in 1944
BornMaría Victoria Casares y Pérez
(1922-11-21)21 November 1922
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Died22 November 1996(1996-11-22) (aged 74)
Alloue, Poitou-Charentes, France
Alma materParis Conservatoire
OccupationActress
Spouse André Schlesser ​ ​(m. 1978; died 1985)​
FatherSantiago Casares Quiroga

María Victoria Casares y Pérez (21 November 1922 – 22 November 1996) was a Spanish-born French actress and one of the most distinguished stars of the French stage and cinema. She was credited in France as Maria Casarès.

Early life

Casares was born María Victoria Casares y Pérez in A Coruña, Galicia, the daughter of Santiago Casares Quiroga, a minister in Manuel Azaña's government and Prime Minister of Spain, and of Gloria Pérez. She was a volunteer in Madrid hospitals already at age fourteen. Her father was a member of the Republican government so at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936), the family was forced to flee Spain. Her father went to London, but she and her mother sought refuge in Paris.

There, María attended the Victor Duruy school, where she learned French and was befriended by a teacher and his Spanish wife, who inspired her to go into the theatre. After graduation, she took voice classes with René Simon. She enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire, where she won First Prize for tragedy and Second Prize for comedy.

Career

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In July 1942, she auditioned for Marcel Herrand who engaged her for his Théâtre des Mathurins. There, over the course of the next three years, she appeared in several plays including, Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge, The Master Builder by Ibsen, Le Malentendu (The Misunderstanding) by Albert Camus (with whom she would later have a passionate affair), and an important premiere, Fédérico, after Prosper Mérimée, with Gérard Philipe.

Film

She began to appear in films. Her first film role was in Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du paradis (1945), one of the great classics of French cinema. She also made Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) for Robert Bresson, La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1948) for Christian-Jaque, co-starring Gérard Philipe. For Cocteau, she played Death in his Orphée (1950) with Jean Marais and François Périer and in his Testament d'Orphée (Testament of Orpheus) (1960).

In 1989, she was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress in La Lectrice.

Stage success

From 1952 onward, although she continued to appear in occasional films, she devoted herself mainly to the stage. She joined the Festival d'Avignon, the Comédie-Française and the Théâtre National Populaire under the leadership of Jean Vilar. Before her, no one actor or actress of foreign origin had ever played at Comédie-Française. She toured extensively throughout the world, appearing in the great classics of French theatre, including, in 1958, Corneille's Le Cid, Victor Hugo's Marie Tudor and Marivaux's Le Triomphe de l'Amour (The Triumph of Love) on Broadway.

Personal life and death

Casares took French nationality in 1975 and three years later married André Schlesser, an actor known professionally as Dade, who had been her longtime companion and theatrical co-star.

She published her autobiography, Résidente privilégiée (Privileged Resident) in 1980, in which she described her 16-year affair with Albert Camus. The couple never married, but their extensive correspondence, first published in France in late 2017, lasted from 1944, with a five-year break to 1949, when they again had a chance meeting when their passion was rekindled until the end of Camus' life. She starred in a number of Albert Camus's plays and often threatened to end their stormy affair over his refusal to leave Francine Faure.

The actress died of colon cancer at her country house, Château de La Vergne, in the village of Alloue in Poitou-Charentes, on the day after her 74th birthday. She bequeathed the property to the village. Today, the Domaine de la Vergne is a residence for artists and a setting for performances.

Filmography

Films

TV

  • Énigmes de l'histoire (1956)
  • Macbeth (1959) Lady Macbeth
  • Yerma (1963) Yerma
  • La Reine verte (1964)
  • L'Île des chèvres (1975) Agata
  • Britannicus (1977) Agrippine
  • Irène et sa folie (1980) Le docteur Burns
  • Peer Gynt (1981) Ase
  • Les Bonnes (1985) Madame
  • Les Nuits révolutionnaires (1989) La Murène

References

  1. "Obituary:Maria Casares". The Independent. 7 December 1996. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  2. ^ John Calder. "Obituary:Maria Casares". The Independent. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  3. "Camus and his women". The Guardian. 15 October 1997. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  4. Catherine Camus presenta la biografía de Olivier Todd sobre su padre, ABC – Madrid, June 12, 1997.
  5. Charting the amazing love life of the amorous existentialist, The Independent, October 11, 1997.
  6. Las mujeres de Camus, Vanguardia (April 12, 2012).
  7. Anna Mellado García – Centenario del nacimiento de Albert Camus – "Por una memoria histórica aún no recuperada", CCOO; accessed October 8, 2017.
  8. Catherine Camus, ed. (2017). Albert Camus - Maria Casarès, Correspondance inédite (1944-1959). Colléction Blanche (in French). Paris: Gallimard - Édition de Béatrice Vaillant. ISBN 9782072746161.
  9. Marlowe, Lara (25 November 2017). "Albert Camus's sizzling letters to one of his three lovers". The Irish Times. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  10. "Albert Camus: A Life" by Olivier Todd (Chapter 34: "The Unique One")
  11. LaCava, Stephanie (11 April 2018). "Illicit Love Letters: Albert Camus and Maria Casares". The Paris Review. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  12. "Camus: Portrait of a Moralist" by Stephen Eric Bronner (Chapter 3: "Resistance").
  13. Zaretsky, Robert (4 March 2018). "'No Longer the Person I Was': The Dazzling Correspondence of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  14. María Casares
  15. Thibaudat, Jean-Pierre (6 July 2002). "La Vergne, habitée par Maria Casarès". Libération Next. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.

Sources

  • Résidente privilégiée, Fayard, 1980, ISBN 2-213-00779-9
  • El periodismo es un cuento by Manuel Rivas (chapter: "La mujer rebelde"), Alfaguara, 1997, ISBN 9788420479071
  • Maria Casarès: L'étrangère by Javier Figuero & Marie-Hélène Carbonel, Fayard, 2005, ISBN 9782213624013
  • La extranjera by Javier Figuero, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, February 2017, ISBN 9781542994071
  • Tu me vertiges. L'amour interdit de Maria Casarès et Albert Camus by Florence M.-Forsythe, Le Passeur Éditeur, March 2017, ISBN 9782368905203
  • Albert Camus, Maria Casarès. Correspondance inédite (1944–1959). Avant-propos de Catherine Camus. Gallimard, November 2017, ISBN 9782072746161

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