Biographies: Jacques Sernas - Actor

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French actor born in Kaunas, Lithuania on July 30, 1925. He won the Silver Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Actor in 1948, presented by the Journalist Critics Association. He got married to the Romanian journalist and writer Maria Stella Sernas in 1955 and they had a daughter before they divorced. His father died at the age of one, and his mother took him to Paris, where he received his formal education. He joined the French resistance when Nazi forces occupied France at the beginning of World War II, and was captured and detained in a Nazi concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, and released after a year. After the war, he tried to study medicine and then journalism, before turning to acting, and his first role was in the The Dark Mirror (1946). Among his most notable works are: The Loves of Salammbo (1960), Helen of Troy (1956), and La Dolce Vita (1960). He died in Rome, Lazio, Italy on July 3, 2015.

• 28 February 2022
• farah ashraf