French actress, director, and screenwriter

Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L'Étudiante (1988), Pacific Palisades (1990), Fanfan (1993) and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). She became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), Anna Karenina (1997) and as Elektra King in the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999).

Born

1966

November 17

Died

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1960s

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1966 Born

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887 Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November.
1183 Genpei War: The Battle of Mizushima takes place off the Japanese coast, where Minamoto no Yoshinaka's invasion force is intercepted and defeated by the Taira clan.
1292 John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1405 Sharif ul-Hāshim establishes the Sultanate of Sulu.

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The world in 1966

When Sophie arrived

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Angelika Machinek 1956–2006 German glider pilot (died 2006) Daniel Scott 1963– American novelist and short story writer East Bay Ray 1948– American guitarist Kimya Dawson 1972– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Lee Strasberg 1901–1982 American actor and director (born 1901) Lev Vygotsky 1896–1934 Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (born 1896) Nguyễn Tấn Dũng 1949– Vietnamese soldier and politician, eighth Prime Minister of Vietnam Sarah Harding 1981–2021 English singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021) Walter Terence Stace 1886–1967 English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1886)

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Jimmy Wales 1966– American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia Allan Donald 1966– South African cricketer and coach Andrew Adamson 1966– New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter Andrew Wood 1966–1990 American singer-songwriter (died 1990) Ben Folds 1966– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Bill Ranford 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Calvin Borel 1966– American jockey Charles Hazlewood 1966– English conductor Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress

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