Geneviève Page

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Geneviève Page, born Geneviève Bronjean, (13 December 1930) in Paris, France, is a French leading actress with a film career spanning fifty years.

Her film début was in Pas de pitié pour les femmes (1951) followed by Fanfan la Tulipe (1952) in which she played Madame de Pompadour, alongside Gérard Philipe and Gina Lollobrigida. Since then, she has appeared in French, Italian, British and American films. She co-starred with Dirk Bogarde and Capucine in Song Without End (1960), Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in El Cid (1961) and was seen in Grand Prix (1966) and Belle de jour (1967) with Catherine Deneuve. In 1968, she appeared with Deneuve again when she played Countess Larisch in Mayerling. In 1970, she was cast as the mysterious heroine in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. She appeared in Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy (1987). She continued to act until 2003.