Biography

Leading French actress, born Catherine Vitale in Marseille, first trained as a dancer at fourteen. She subsequently attended the Institut cinématographique de Marseille and began on stage from 1956. She has acted in plays by Molière, Achard, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, Anouilh, Shaw and Guitry. With Marie-France Boyer she co-founded the Théâtre du quotidien. Catherine Rouvel is best known on the screen for her roles in Jean Renoir's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1959), Marcel Carné's Les assassins de l'ordre (1971), Jacques Deray's classic gangster film Borsalino (1970) and Jean-Jacques Annaud's La victoire en chantant (1976).

- IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis