María Casares

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. Camus never divorced his wife, 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 and rekindled their passion, until the end of Camus's life. She starred in a number of Camus's plays and often threatened to end their stormy affair over his refusal to leave Francine Faure.

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

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

Les Enfants du paradis (1945) Nathalie Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) Hélène Roger la Honte (1946) Julia de Noirville The Revenge of Roger (1946) Julia de Terrenoire Love Around the House (1947) Thérèse The Seventh Door (1947) Bagarres (1948) Carmelle The Charterhouse of Parma (1948) La duchesse Gina de San Severina The Man Who Returns from Afar (1950) Guernica (1950) (voice) Orphée (1950) The Princess Shadow and Light (1951) Caroline Bessier Le Jardins du Seigneur (1954) (voice) Testament of Orpheus (1960) The Princess Hieronymus Bosch (1963) (voice) Flavia, la monaca musulmana (1974) Sister Agatha Blanche et Marie (1985) Louise Blood and Sand (1987) Dolores The Reader (1988) General's Widow Monte bajo (1989) Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (1990) Viviane Someone Else's America (1995) Alonso's Mother

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