The actress Charlotte Valandrey, consecrated by the film “Rouge Baiser” in 1985, died on the afternoon of this Wednesday. the actress of tomorrow belongs to us and laughs Les Cordiers, judge and policeman I was 53 years old.
He revealed his HIV status in 2005 with his autobiography “Love in Blood.” Her triple therapy had exhausted her heart and she had undergone a transplant in 2003, making her the first HIV-positive heart transplant recipient in France.
In 2008, he suffered a heart attack and his heart stopped beating for 22 seconds. The actress announced on June 14 that she was going to undergo a new heart transplant. “My graft just arrived and it’s about time,” she wrote on your instagram account.
“On June 14, Charlotte had to undergo emergency surgery to replace her ‘second-hand heart’ as she called it, but this new transplant did not prosper, this third heart did not survive,” explained her daughter, sister and father. it’s a statement. statement.
She had been living with HIV since she was 17 years old.
Charlotte Valandrey is not yet 17 years old when “Rouge Baiser” is released, the film that made her the new star. She embodies, in France during the Cold War, Nadia, a young rebel who militates in the Communist Youth and sees her ideal waver after a romantic encounter (Lambert Wilson). She was then predicted a fate a la Sophie Marceau.
It was a few days before his 18th birthday that he found out he had contracted HIV. With a “gothic prince”, a member of a famous rock band, he will only say.
She is not selected for “White Wedding” (1989), after having shared the secret of her illness with the director. Her filmography is then far from the glory she was promised. Her career will be mainly on television, acting from 1991 to 2000 in the series “Les cordier, Judge et cop” (up to 11.4 million viewers) or in “Tomorrow belongs to us” (2017-2019).
Source: BFM TV
