Yvonne Monlaur
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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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Acting
Movie
The Brides of Dracula
as Marianne Danielle
1960
Movie
It Started in Naples
1960
Movie
Circus of Horrors
as Nicole Vanet
1960
Movie
The Terror of the Tongs
as Lee
1961
Movie
Because, Because of a Woman
as La soubrette
1963
TV
The Third Man
1959
Movie
Dying as Hierarchs
as Rosalina Merletti
1961
Movie
Honoré de Marseille
as Gyptis
1956
Movie
Ladies' Man
as Claudia
1962
Movie
The Twilight Girls
as Une grande
1957
Movie
Inn for Trouble
as Yvette Dupres
1960
Movie
Skies Above
as Françoise
1965
Movie
Night of Lust
as Miss Rivière / Nora Markriff
1963
Movie
License to Kill
as Yvonne
1964
Movie
3 Strangers in Rome
as Nanda Colombo
1958
Movie
Mission to Caracas
as Muriel
1965
Movie
Thirteen at the Table
as (uncredited)
1955
Movie
Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
as Violet
1966
TV
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Movie
The Hawk of the Caribbean
as Arica Mageiras
1962
Movie
Time to Remember
as Suzanne
1962
Movie
Les Lavandières du Portugal
as Nadine
1957
Movie
Adventure in Capri
as Yvonne
1959
Movie
Quel tesoro di papà
as Marina
1959