Nathalie Baye was hospitalized in emergency on February 1, 2020. While we were initially talking about a heart attack, the 71-year-old actress actually suffered from a bronchopulmonary infection from the flu.
[Mis à jour le 4 février 2020 à 09h29] A few months after Catherine Deneuve, Nathalie Baye had to be rushed to the hospital on Saturday February 1, according to BFM TV which revealed the information on Monday. While the rumor of a heart attack initially panicked some media, the agent for the 71-year-old actress quickly spoke with reassuring news. “Nathalie Baye did not have a heart attack,” Elisabeth Tanner told AFP on Monday. She then clarified that the actress had actually been hospitalized for a “bronchopulmonary infection following an influenza episode”. Nathalie Baye should also quickly be up, if we believe the agent of the star: “She is fine, and will return to her home in the coming days”.
The Parisian revealed new information about the circumstances of the hospitalization of Nathalie Baye. The actress was undergoing a simple MRI check-up in a Parisian clinic. It was this clinic that warned the SAMU, “in a panic” according to the media: in fact, the medical team was alerted by “signs of cardio-respiratory arrest”. But when emergencies arrived, the mother’s state of health Laura Smet was reassuring.
At 71, after being awarded four times at the Césars, Nathalie Baye continues to be a very active actress: in October 2019, Laura Smet’s mother was still filming in front of the camera of director Nicolas Maury, for the feature film Garçon cloth. In December 2019, the actress was again on the set, this time for the film The beauty of the gesture of Sylvie Ohayon. Recently, the public was able to see Nathalie Baye in Les Guardiennes, but also in the Nox series in 2018 on Canal +.
Nathalie Baye was born on July 6, 1948 in Mainneville. She is a French actress popular with both the public and her peers, having won a César four times. She is the mother of actress Laura Smet, daughter of Johnny Hallyday.
Daughter of a couple of painters, Nathalie Baye grew up in a bohemian family without means. A bad student, she is passionate about dance with the idea of no longer depending financially on her parents and taking revenge on school. At fourteen, she left for Monaco to follow the teaching of Marika Besobrasova, the classical dance teacher who trained Nureyev. She also spent a year in the United States, before returning at 18 to settle in Paris. Trained by a friend at the Simon course, she developed a taste for drama and successfully passed the Conservatory Competition. She notably rubs shoulders with André Dussolier and Jean-François Balmer.
Nathalie Baye starts in cinema with a short scene in Robert Wise’s Brief Encounter, then is hired by François Truffaut for the role of the script in The American Night (1973). The filmmaker will direct it again in L’Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977) and La Chambre verte (1978). She then goes on to the supporting secondary roles, notably in La Gueule Ouvert by Maurice Pialat (1974) where she has her partner, her partner Philippe Léotard.
The actress is revealed to the general public thanks to her role in Une Semaine de vacances by Bertrand Tavernier (1980). A prosperous period then opened for her, which saw her win the César for Best Supporting Actress for Une Etrange Affair by Pierre Granier-Deferre (1981), then that of Best Actress in 1983 for her interpretation of a prostitute in The balance by Bob Swaim. She also had an unexpected success with the historic drama Le Retour de Martin Guerre by Daniel Vigne (1982), then I married a shadow of Robin Davis the following year. She is also the muse of Jean-Luc Godard during two feature films: Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) and Détective (1985) which mediates his relationship with Johnny Hallyday. Queen of the French box office and celebrity magazines, Nathalie Baye suffers from her overexposure and experiences a rapid eclipse which pushes her to take a theatrical interlude in 1986 with the show Adriana Monti.
Back on the front of the stage
The following years confirm his decline in popularity despite his role in Un Week-end sur deux by Nicole Garcia (1990). Her career was suddenly relaunched in 1999 by characters of mature women who were a little disillusioned and assumed their sexuality. A pornographic link by Frédéric Fonteyne earned him the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, while the success of Vénus Beauté by Tonie Marshall allowed him to count again among the most requested French actresses. She is even asked by Spielberg to interpret the mother of Leonardo DiCaprio in Stop me if you can in 2002. Since then, she multiplies taking risks, not hesitating to accept the first feature films by young directors (Une Vie à t ‘wait by Thierry Klifa, 2004), or to slip into the skin of alcoholic women (Les Sentiments de Noémie Lvovsky, 2003), crazy (Absolutely fabulous by Gabriel Aghion, 2001) or calculators (La Fleur du mal by Claude Chabrol, France boutique by Tonie Marshall). Sign of her consecration: Nathalie Baye entered the dictionary on the occasion of the 2006 edition of Petit Larousse.
In the 2010s, Nathalie Baye appeared mainly in supporting roles for dramatic films. The public was able to recognize it in Ensemble c’est trop en 2010, but also in Xavier Dolan’s feature films (Laurence Anyways in 2012, Juste la fin du monde en 2016). For this latest film, she will also be named to the César for best actress in a supporting role. In 2017, she played alongside her daughter Laura Smet in Les Gardiennes by Xavier Beauvois.
Nathalie Baye is credited with several relationships with well-known personalities. In 1972, she met Philippe Léotard, with whom she lived a relationship for ten years. She will also be in a relationship for three years with Johnny Hallyday in the 1980s. She also attended the CEO of Canal + Pierre Lescure, before being the companion of Jean-Louis Borloo in the 1990s.
Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday : Nathalie Baye meets Johnny Hallyday in 1982 during a television program: I saw a shy man surrounded by guys all more tanned and blond each other. I found it very touching “recalls the actress in 2009, in the columns of L’Express. They moved to the Yvelines to start a family: in November 1983, their daughter, Laura Smet, was born. However, time will have because of the couple, who will finally separate in 1986. They would however have remained on good terms. At the announcement of the death of the rocker, at the end of 2017, the actress will publish on her Instagram account “My sorrow is immense”. during the popular tribute to Johnny Hallyday at the Madeleine, in Paris.
Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday had a daughter: Laura Smet, born November 15, 1983, who has the name of her father. Very close, the two women shared the poster in a film by Xavier Beauvois: Les Gardiennes. After the death of Johnny, who saw the birth of many divisions within the Hallyday clan, Nathalie Baye was one of the supporters of Laura Smet and David Hallyday. In a press release sent to Le Figaro in March 2018, the actress displayed her support for the children of the rockstar, explaining that David and Laura “were the beasts of their stepmother” Laeticia Hallyday.
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