Clio Goldsmith

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Clio Goldsmith (Clio Shand since 1990 when she married Mark Shand) (born 16 June 1957 in Paris^[1]) is a French former actress, appearing mostly as Femme fatale, call girl or prostitute in the early 1980s.

Goldsmith is the daughter of ecologist Edward Goldsmith, niece of billionaire Sir James Goldsmith.

She began acting in the 1980 movie La Cicala of Alberto Lattuada. Alongside Virna Lisi and Anthony Franciosa, she played a fun-loving girl ending up as prostitute. In 1981, she played prostitute Clemence in Mauro Bologninis La Dame aux camélias (after The Lady of the Camellias) together with Isabelle Huppert. In Plein sud, she vows she will take up with the first fool she sees^[2], seducing Patrick Dewaere.

In 1982, the title role in the comedy Le cadeau (The Gift, or Bankers Also Have Souls) earned her some international fame. The Michel Lang movie which was produced by her cousin Gilbert de Goldschmidt featured Pierre Mondy and Claudia Cardinale. Goldsmith plays a beautiful call girl, a gift to a retiring banker from his colleagues.^[3] ^[4] After two other roles, and having appeared twice in an Italian adult entertainment magazine Playmen, she retired from acting.

From 1982 to 1985 she was married to Italian entrepreneur Carlo Alessandro Puri Negri (* 1952), an heir Pirelli. They have a daughter.

Since 1990 she has been married to British author Mark Shand (born 28 June 1951),^[5] brother of Camilla Mountbatten-Windsor. They live in Rome with their daughter, Ayesha. ^[6] ^[7]