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Getty Images Nathalie Baye, the acclaimed French performer who broke out in “Day for Night” and later appeared in “Catch Me If You Can” and “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” has died. She was 77.
Baye died Friday evening at her home in Paris following complications related to Lewy body dementia, her family told Agence France-Presse.
Born July 6, 1948, in Mainneville, Normandy, Baye trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique in Paris and began her film career in the early 1970s. She went on to become a central figure in French cinema, earning four César Awards over a career spanning more than five decades.
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