Anecdotes

Is friends with actors Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

François Truffaut was the responsible for her name change from Claudine Huze to Marie Dubois after he suggested she changed it after "Marie Dubois" (1952), a novel by Jacques Audiberti they both appreciated.

In a 2005 interview, Marie said that François Truffaut was her first love and that she thinks he was in love with her too during the time they were filming Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) and although they never had an affair they remained close friends until Truffaut's death in 1984.

Her longtime husband Serge Rousseau, who started as an actor, later became an agent and founder of the Artmedia agency, which discovered actors such as Isabelle Adjani, Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye and Sandrine Bonnaire.

Has a daughter named Dominique, born in 1963.

In 2002 she published her autobiography "J'ai pas menti, j'ai pas tout dit...".

Since 2001, she's been active in the organization UNICEP, which works to fight against multiple sclerosis, which she suffers from.

Both she and her husband Serge Rousseau were close friends of François Truffaut.

Attended Yves Montand funeral along with Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve and husband Serge Rousseau.

Mother of actress Dominique Rousseau (born in 1963) with late husband actor Serge Rousseau.

Good friends with actors Michel Piccoli and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 2002, Officier in 2013.

Close friends with Anny Duperey, Bernard Giraudeau and Serge Lama.