Biography

Martine Simonet was born on January 26, 1943, in Bayonne, to an old Bayonne family on her father's side and from the Landes region (Mugron) on her mother's. She spent her childhood and adolescence in Rouen. After her film career, she moved to Jamaica in the mid-1980s, where she spent the rest of her life, running a small hotel on Negril Beach. She died in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on July 2, 2024.

Known For

The Last Metro

Martine, the thief

Fine Manners

Dominique Maillard

The Theatre of the Matters

Martine

Simone Barbès or Virtue

Martine

Holy Beasts

Nora Legri (archive footage)

Melodrama

Nora Legri

Secret Passage

Marthe

Short Memory

L'assistante aux Ballets Roses