Career

Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (Ile-de-France) into a family of politicians (her grandmother Marie Janson was the first female member of the Belgian Senate and her uncle Paul-Henri Spaak and granduncle Paul-Emile Janson were Prime Minister of Belgium).

Spaak spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Spaak was the lead actress in at least twelve movies. As a singer, she was regarded by some as the Italian equivalent of French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, some of whose songs she recorded in 1963. Born into a firmly anticlerical family, at the age of eighteen she decided to embrace Catholicism (now she considers herself a Buddhist).

Selected filmography

• Sweet Deceptions (1960)
• Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)
• Crazy Desire (1961)
• Three Faces of Sin (1961)
• The Easy Life (1962)
• Of Wayward Love (1962)
• Eighteen in the Sun (1962)
• The Girl from Parma (1963)
• The Empty Canvas (1963)
• The Warm Life (1963)
• Three Nights of Love (1964)
• Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
• Circle of Love (1964)
• Made in Italy (1965)
• Madamigella di Maupin (1965)
• The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965)
• The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (1965)
• Adultery Italian Style (1966)
• Break Up (1967)
• Hotel (1967)
• A Complicated Girl (1968)
• The Libertine (1969)
• If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
• Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969)
• The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
• Ripped Off (1972)
• Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
• Dear Parents (1973)
• My Darling Slave (1973)
• La via dei babbuini (1974)
• Take a Hard Ride (1975)
• Febbre da cavallo (1976)
• Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi (1978)
• Catherine and I (1980)
• Sunday Lovers (1980)
• The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
• Miele di donna (1981)
• Claretta (1984)
• Secret Scandal (1989)
• Une famille formidable (TV, 1993)
• Zen (TV, 2011)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]