Early life

May was born in Paris. Her father is playwright Victor Haïm, who is from a Greek- and Turkish-Jewish family. Her mother is the Swedish ballet teacher and choreographer Margareta Hanson. At age 16 May won the "Premier Prix du Conservatoire de Danse de Paris" (First Prize of the Paris Dance Conservatory).

Career

May's film work is primarily in French and made for the European market; she was the recipient of the Prix Romy Schneider in 1989. Non-French films she has appeared in include Lifeforce, Naked Tango (1991), Becoming Colette (1991) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). In the USA she is best known for her role as an alien "vampire" in the 1985 science fiction horror film Lifeforce, directed by Tobe Hooper, in which she is naked for most of her performance. She also appeared in the 1996 space adventure game Privateer 2: The Darkening. She played Isabella in The Jackal, a 1997 action film.

May recorded an album in 1992 called Joy of Love.

Personal life

May has been married three times: Her first husband was Paul Powell, while her second husband was Gérard Darmon, with whom she has two children, daughter Sarah (born 17 August 1994) and son Jules (born 4 March 1997). Her third husband was Philippe Kelly.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1983	Weißblaue Geschichten			TV Series (1 Episode)
1984	Nemo	Alice	Arnaud Sélignac
1985	Lifeforce	Space Girl	Tobe Hooper
	Giorno dopo giorno		Salvatore Nocita	TV Series
	Les Rois du gag	Alexandra	Claude Zidi
1986	Les louves	Agnès	Peter Duffell	TV Movie
	Se un giorno busserai alla mia porta	Claudia Bandini	Luigi Perelli	TV Mini-Series
1987	La vie dissolue de Gérard Floque	Pauline	Georges Lautner
	The Cry of the Owl	Juliette	Claude Chabrol	César Award for Most Promising Actress
1988	Il segreto del Sahara	Myriam	Alberto Negrin	TV Mini-Series
	La passerelle	Cora Elbaz	Jean-Claude Sussfeld
	Piazza Navona	Jeanne	Roger Guillot	TV Series (1 Episode)
	L'heure Simenon	Edmée	Josef Rusnak	TV Series (1 Episode)
	Trois places pour le 26	Marion	Jacques Demy
1991	Isabelle Eberhardt	Isabelle Eberhardt	Ian Pringle
	Naked Tango	Alba/Stéphanie	Leonard Schrader
	Scream of Stone	Katharina	Werner Herzog
	Becoming Colette (ru)	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Danny Huston
1992	Toutes peines confondues	Jeanne Gardella	Michel Deville
1994	Grosse Fatigue	Herself	Michel Blanc
	The Tit and the Moon	Estrellita	Bigas Luna
	The Whipping Boy	Betsy	Syd Macartney	TV Movie
	Le voleur et la menteuse	Suzanne Henson	Paul Boujenah
1996	Celluloide	Cameo	Carlo Lizzani
	Noces cruelles	Sandra	Bertrand Van Effenterre	TV Movie
	La ferme du crocodile	Sandrine Jaussier	Didier Albert	TV Movie
	Privateer 2: The Darkening	Melissa Banks	Steve Hilliker Erin Roberts	Video Game
1997	The Jackal	Isabella Zanconia	Michael Caton-Jones
1998	Only Love	Silvia Rinaldi	John Erman	TV Movie
2000	Là-bas... mon pays	Nelly Azera	Alexandre Arcady
	Les redoutables	Military woman	Thierry Barthes Pierre Jamin	TV Series (1 Episode)
2001	De toute urgence	Julie	Philippe Triboit	TV Movie
	Caméra Café	The Boss's wife		TV Series (1 Episode)
2002	Fabio Montale	Hélène Pessayre	José Pinheiro	TV Mini-Series (2 Episodes)
	Perlasca - Un eroe Italiano	Contessa Eleonora	Alberto Negrin (2)	TV Movie
2003	Soyez prudents...		Lionel Gédébé	TV Series
	Soraya	Chams	Lodovico Gasparini	TV Movie
2004	Love Express	Anne-Charlotte	Elena Hazanov
2005	L'homme pressé	Irène Debord	Sébastien Grall	TV Movie
	L'homme qui voulait passer à la télé		Amar Arhab Fabrice Michelin	TV Movie
2006	Entrevue	Alix	Marie-Pierre Huster	Short
2007	New délire	Fanny's voice	Eric Le Roch
	A Girl Cut in Two	Capucine Jamet	Claude Chabrol (2)
2009	Au siècle de Maupassant	Thérèse de Marsanne	Gérard Jourd'hui	TV Series (1 Episode)
2010	Les nuits d'Alice	Angélique	Williams Crépin	TV Movie
2011	Une vie française	Anna Blick	Jean-Pierre Sinapi	TV Movie
2012	The Players	Ariane	Jean Dujardin
	Clash	Laure Rossignol	Pascal Lahmani	TV Series (3 Episodes)
2013	La croisière	Françoise	Pascal Lahmani (2)	TV Series (1 Episode)
	Délit de fuite	Cécile	Thierry Binisti	TV Movie

Further reading

• May, Mathilda (2007-03-01). Personne ne le saura. Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-08-068459-2.

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