Actress Charlotte Valandrey Dead At 53 – HuffPost

VALERY HACHE via Getty ImagesCharlotte Valandrey, here at the Monte-Carlo television festival, June 16, 2018. DEATH – Actress Charlotte Valandrey, consecrated by the film Rouge Baiser in 1985 and who made her HIV status and her problems public heart transplant, died on Wednesday July 13 at the age of 53, her agent and her family told AFP. sales) then adapted into a TV movie. Her triple therapy had exhausted her heart and she had recourse to a transplant in 2003, which made her the first HIV-positive heart transplant recipient in France. In 2008, she suffered a heart attack, her heart stopping beat for 22 seconds. And recently, she had announced on social networks that her second heart was coming to an end and that she needed a new transplant. “Waiting for my 3rd”, she wrote on Instagram on June 8. “On June 14, Charlotte had to have emergency surgery to replace her ‘second-hand heart’ as she called it, but this new transplant did not take, this third heart did not live,” explained her daughter, her sister and her father in a statement sent to AFP. Star at 17 with Rouge BaiserCharlotte Valandrey was not yet 17 when Rouge Baiser, the film that made her the new star, was released. She embodies, in France during the Cold War, Nadia, a young rebel who militates in the Young Communists and sees her ideal waver after a romantic encounter (Lambert Wilson). She was then predicted a fate like Sophie Marceau. Disappearance of Charlotte Valandrey this Wednesday at the age of 53
The actress had been living with HIV since 1986, and had a heart transplant last month
We discovered her at 16 in 1985 in Vera Belmont’s film “Rouge Baiser” pic.twitter.com/LOMGpv0Nh5— Destination Ciné (@destinationcine) July 13, 2022 “Rouge Baiser” forever. RIP Charlotte Valandrey @ChValandreyOff 😥 pic.twitter.com/6Bakd4LJIU— Chris Lambert-Côme (@KrissLJ) July 13, 2022It was a few days before she turned 18 that she learned that she had contracted HIV. With a “gothic prince”, member of a famous rock band, she will only say. She is not retained for Noce blanche (1989), after having shared the secret of her illness with the director. His filmography is then far from the glory that he was promised. His career will be mainly on television playing from 1991 to 2000 in the series Les Cordier, judge and cop (up to 11.4 million viewers) or in Tomorrow belongs to us (2017-2019). The TF1 group, broadcaster of these series, expressed her “deep sadness”.Charlotte Valandrey must be “buried in the privacy of Pléneuf-Val André”, a Breton town where she spent holidays during her childhood and which inspired her artist name, announced his relatives. A religious ceremony will take place in September in Paris. Also on The HuffPost: Photo gallery They died in 2022 See the pictures