Nadine de Rothschild

Nadine de Rothschild (née Nadine Nelly Jeannette Lhopitalier; born 18 April 1932) is a French socialite and author. She is the widow of banker Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild family. Prior to her marriage, she had an acting career under the stage name Nadine Tallier.

Biography Nadine Lhopitalier was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France. She never met her father. At 14 years-old, she left her mother's house and worked in a Peugeot factory.

2 years later, at 16, she became the model of the painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue, a socialite who opened the door for her to the worlds of theater and film. In 1952, she began her acting career under the pseudonym of Nadine Tallier and played various roles from 1952 to 1964.

In 1958, she started a romantic relationship with Lance Callingham, the son of British socialite Norah Docker.

In 1962, two years before ending her career in film, she married Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild of the French branch of the Rothschild family. At the time, Edmond was chairman and principal owner of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, a private banking group headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Although she was raised Roman Catholic, she converted to Judaism stating: "It would not have been possible to have the name Rothschild and be a Catholic... Nor would it be right for the son of a Rothschild to be half-Jewish and half-Catholic." They had one son born in 1963, Benjamin de Rothschild (1963–2021), shortly after their marriage. Following her husband's death in 1997, David Rockefeller proposed to her but she refused. In 2004, she opened the Nadine de Rothschild International Way of Life Academy in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 2025, one of her lawsuit against her daughter-in-law Ariane was dismissed and she can therefore no longer access the Chateau de Pregny where she used to live with her husband until his death in 1997.

Filmography

1949 : Un chien et madame by Marcel Martin - short (19mn) - 1949 : Mission in Tangier by André Hunebelle - Young woman in cabaret 1949 : The Sinners by Julien Duvivier - Schoolgirl 1950 : Quay of Grenelle by Emile-Edwin Reinert - Naked nightclub dancer 1951 : Darling by Richard Pottier – uncredited (body double for Martine Carol) 1951 : Leathernose by Yves Allégret 1951 : The Passage of Venus by Maurice Gleize - Gisèle 1951 : The Sleepwalker by Maurice Labro – Uncredited - Ginette, a salesgirl 1952 : The Case Against X by Richard Pottier - Amélie, the maid 1952 : Manina, the Girl in the Bikini by Willy Rozier - Mathilda 1952 : Coiffeur pour dames by Jean Boyer - Miss Mado 1953 : Women of Paris by Jean Boyer - Poupette 1953 : Children of Love by Léonide Moguy - Lulu 1953 : Une vie de garçon by Jean Boyer 1954 : Royal Affairs in Versailles by Sacha Guitry – uncredited - Court lady 1954 : Ma petite folie by Maurice Labro - Suzanne 1954 : Les hommes ne pensent qu'à ça by Yves Robert - Young woman in bathtub 1954 : Les Impures by Pierre Chevalier - Nightclub hostess 1954 : Madame du Barry by Christian-Jaque - Loque 1955 : Blackmail by Guy Lefranc - Janine 1956 : Les Truands by Carlo Rim 1956 : Vous pigez by Pierre Chevalier - Amanda 1956 : Ce soir les jupons volent by Dimitri Kirsanoff - Tania 1956 : Fernand cow-boy by Guy Lefranc - Any, saloon singer 1956 : En effeuillant la marguerite by Marc Allégret - Magali, a journalist 1956 : Folies-Bergère aka Un soir au music-hall by Henri Decoin - Sonia 1956 : Le long des trottoirs by Léonide Moguy - Pension girl 1956 : L'Homme et l'Enfant by Raoul André - Pitel 1956 : The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Jean Delannoy - Girl in the Court of Miracles 1957 : Cinq Millions comptant by André Berthomieu - Céleste 1957 : Miss Catastrophe by Dimitri Kirsanoff - Arlette 1957 : Donnez-moi ma chance ou Piège à filles de Léonide Moguy - Kiki 1957 : Comme un cheveu sur la soupe by Maurice Regamey - Juliette, nightclub hostess 1958 : Girls at Sea by Gilbert Gunn - Antoinette (British film) 1958 : En bordée by Pierre Chevalier - Muguette 1958 : The Possessors by Denys de La Patellière - Sylviane, young kept woman 1959 : Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women by Maurice Regamey - Arlette 1959 : Rue de la peur (Los Cobardes) by Juan Carlos Thorry - Maria 1959 : Visa pour l'enfer by Alfred Rode - Clémentine 1959 : The Treasure of San Teresa (autres titres : Hot Money Girl ou Long Distance) - Larry agent secret by Alvin Rakoff - Zizi 1961 : Deuxième Bureau contre terroristes by Jean Stelli - Claire 1964 : Une ravissante idiote by Édouard Molinaro

Theatre 1952 : Schnock opérette de Marc-Cab et Jean Rigaux, mise en scène Alfred Pasquali, Théâtre des Célestins 1954 : Les chansons de Bilitis opérette de Jean Valmy et Marc Cab d'après Pierre Louys, music by Joseph Kosma, Théâtre des Capucines

Works as a writer La Baronne rentre à cinq heure (avec la collaboration de Guillemette de Sairigné), Paris : Jean-Claude Lattès, 1984. 255 p. + 16 f. de planches. Heureuse et pas fâchée de l'être, autobiographie, Paris : Éditions de la Seine, coll. « Succès du livre », 1987. 221 p. + 16 p. de planches Parlez-moi d'amour, Paris : Fixot, 1989. 243 p. + 8 p. de planches Natara, roman, Paris : Fixot, 1994. 343 p. Femme un jour, femme toujours (savoir-vivre), Paris : Fixot, 1997. 284 p. + 8 p. de planches L'amour est affaire de femmes, Paris : Robert Laffont, 2001. 285 p. + 16 p. de planches Le bonheur de séduire, l'art de réussir : le savoir-vivre du XXIe siècle, Paris : Robert Laffont, 2001. 436 p. + 8 p. de planches . Édition revue et augmentée d'un ouvrage paru en 1991 sous le titre « Le bonheur de séduire, l'art de réussir : savoir vivre aujourd'hui ». Jours heureux à Quiberon, Neuilly-sur-Seine : Michel Lafon, 2002. 160 p. . Sur les chemins de l'amour, Paris : Robert Laffont, 2003. 327 p. + 16 p. de planches . Megève, un roman d'amour, Paris : Albin Michel, 2004. 299 p. + 8 p. de planches . Les hommes de ma vie, Paris : Albin Michel, 2007 Bonnes manières, 2009 Réussir l'éducation de nos enfants, avec Arsène Bouakira, Lausanne-Paris : Favre, 2009 Ma philosophie... d'un boudoir à l'autre, Paris : Albin Michel, 2010