AKA: Françoise Fabian, Michele Cortes de Leon y Fabianera
Nationality: Algerian
Birthdate: 05/10/1933
Birthplace: Hussein Dey, Algeria
biography
A dark-haired, exotic beauty, Fabian made her film debut in Pierre Foucaud's "Memoirs d'un flic" (1955) and passed the rest of the decade in unmemorable features. By the mid-1960s, she began to find better roles (e.g., Louis Malle's "Le voleur/The Thief of Paris" and Luis Bunuel's "Belle du jour" both 1967). Fabian was memorable in the title role of Eric Rohmer's "Ma nuit chez Maud/My Night at Maud's" (1969), as the beautiful divorcee whose charms Jean-Louis Trintignant finally succeeds in resisting. Subsequent highlights have included Claude Lelouch's "La bonne annee" (1973), the title role
