Nathalie Baye, the renowned French actress who appeared in Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can (2002), has died. She was 77.
The 4x César Award-winning actress died on Friday evening at her home in Paris after suffering from Lewy body dementia, Baye’s family told Agence France-Presse.
Born July 6, 1948 in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy, Baye graduated from France’s Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique (National Academy of Dramatic Arts) in 1972, making her film debut that year in Robert Wise’s Two People, starring Peter Fonda and Lindsay Wagner.
Baye went on to star in such French films as Day for Night (1973), Jean-Luc Godard’s Every Man for Himself (1980), Strange Affair (1981), The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), La Balance (1982) and Venus Beauty (2000), Feelings (2003), The Young Lieutenant (2006) and It’s Only the End of the World (2017).
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