Career
From 1955-1959 she was married to actor/director Robert Hossein. From 1969 until his death in 1980 she was married to Soviet poet/songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky. From the 1980s until his death in 2003, she lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg.
Marina Vlady"s sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff.
The sisters began acting as children and for a while pursued a ballet career. A rare English language role was as Kate Percy in Orson Welles".
Her television credits include the 1983 mini series Louisiana Chambre des Dames. She wrote Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight, a memoir of her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky.
Marina Vlady was Vysotsky"s last wife from 1969 to his death in 1980.
She had been married before and had three children, while Vysotsky had two. Fueled by Marina"s exotic status as a Frenchwoman in the Soviet Union, and Vladimir"s unmatched popularity in his country, their love was passionate and impulsive. Foreign a decade, the couple maintained a long-distance relationship as Marina compromised her career in France in order to spend more time in Moscow, and his friends pulled strings for him to travel abroad.
She eventually joined the Communist Party of France, which essentially gave her an unlimited-entry visa into the Soviet Union, and provided Vladimir with some immunity against prosecution by the government.
The problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky"s songs. She and Léon Schwartzenberg participated in the protests against deportations of Arab workers from France.
She accepted a role in a film about a gay couple from Iran. Vlady is also continuing her career, both as a writer and as an actress.
Among others, she has published a book on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a topic that was close to Vysotsky"s heart.
She has continued acting on stage. She also came out with a one-woman show based on her book about Vysotsky.
