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Roger Vadim

Filmmaker

Born: 28 January 1928
Died: 11 February 2000 (cancer)
Birthplace: Paris, France
Best known as: Director of And God Created Woman

Name at birth: Roger Vadim Plemiannikov

As a director, Roger Vadim was known for his sensual and sometimes avant-garde films; off-screen he was known for his sensual and sometimes avant-garde lifestyle. He was married five times in all: to actresses Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Marie-Christine Barrault and Annette Stroyberg and to heiress Catherine Schneider. (He was married to Barrault when he died.) Vadim had one child each with Fonda, Stroyberg and Schneider and a fourth child with actress Catherine Deneuve. His best-known film is And God Created Woman (1956), which introduced the innocently voluptuous Bardot.

Extra credit: Vadim's 1968 film with Fonda, Barbarella, is often considered a classic of sci-fi camp... He published the personal memoir Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda in 1986.

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