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From 1964 until 1968 she was the partner of actor Vittorio Gassman. They have a son, actor Alessandro Gassmann.

Grandmother of Leo Gassman and mother-in-law of Sabrina Knaflitz.

At the 10th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in the film The Fair.

Her feature film debut was Les Cousins. The film's director and producer, Claude Chabrol, writes in his autobiography that he discovered her in an advertisement film for soap.

She was a French actress., and appeared in more than 30 films and television shows between 1958 and 1978.

Her parents' country house became the Allied headquarters during World War II.

The daughter of French peasants, Mayniel grew up in an isolated village.

She left the movie scene in the 80's. About twenty years ago she moved to to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Arriving from Bordeaux in Paris, she tried her hand at modeling and later appeared on the covers of various magazines.

Juliette Meynell She was the daughter of a café owner in a small town in Aveyron, a French province in the Occitania region. During the Second World War, her parents moved to Bordeaux , where she spent her adolescence and where, in secondary school, she discovered the theater.