Yvonne Monlaur
Actor
Biography
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Yvonne Monlaur (*December 15, 1939 † April 18, 2017) was a retired French film actress of the late 1950s and 1960s best known for her roles in the Hammer horror films.
Her father's a White Russian count; her mother's a ballet dancer.
She starred in the 1958 Italian film Three Strangers in Rome which was amongst Claudia Cardinale's earliest films and in 1960 in the horror film Circus of Horrors alongside prominent actors in British film such as Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence. In 1960, she also starred in the Hammer horror film The Brides of Dracula alongside other noted British actors of the day Peter Cushing and Freda Jackson and in The Terror of the Tongs (1961) with Christopher Lee.
Monlaur screentested for the role of Domino Derval in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The role eventually went to another French actress, Claudine Auger. After a string of German and Italian films, Monlaur left films to return to Paris. Now she continues to live there. Of late she has attended a few film conventions, which have included salutes to Hammer films.
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Filmography
It Started in Naples
1960
Circus of Horrors
as Nicole Vanet 1960
The Terror of the Tongs
as Lee 1961
Because, Because of a Woman
as La soubrette 1963
Dying as Hierarchs
as Rosalina Merletti 1961
Honoré de Marseille
as Gyptis 1956
Ladies' Man
as Claudia 1962
The Twilight Girls
as Une grande 1957
Inn for Trouble
as Yvette Dupres 1960
Skies Above
as Françoise 1965
Night of Lust
as Miss Rivière / Nora Markriff 1963
License to Kill
as Yvonne 1964
3 Strangers in Rome
as Nanda Colombo 1958
Mission to Caracas
as Muriel 1965
Thirteen at the Table
as (uncredited) 1955
Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
as Violet 1966