Background
Page, Genevieve was born on December 13, 1927 in Paris. Daughter of Jacques Bonjean and Germaine Lipmann.
Page, Genevieve was born on December 13, 1927 in Paris. Daughter of Jacques Bonjean and Germaine Lipmann.
Student Lycee Racine, Paris, Sorbonne, Paris, Conservatoire national.
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 Robert Mitchum and Ingrid Thulin in Foreign Intrigue (1956), 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) with James Garner and Belle de Jour (1967) with Catherine Deneuve.
In 1968, she appeared with Deneuve again when she played Countess Larisch in Mayerling.
In 1970, Billy Wilder cast her as the mysterious villain in his The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. She appeared in Robert Altman"s Beyond Therapy (1987) and continued to act until 2003.
Actor: Ce siecle a cinquante ans, Pas de pitie pour les femmes, Fanfan la tulipe, Lettre ouverte, Plaisirs de Paris, Nuits andalouses, L'etrange desir de M. Bard, Cherchez la femme, L'homme sans passe, Foreign Intrigue, The Silken Affair, Michael Strogoff, Un amour de poche, Song Without End, Le bal des adieux, El Cid, Le jour et l'heure, L'honorable correspondent, Youngblood Hawke, Le majordome, Les corsaires, La Femme sur Le Lit, Les Bois Noirs. Actor, actor: Mere Courage, Le Soulier de Satin, L'Echange. Le Balcon.
Married Jean-Claude Bujard, 1959. 2 children.