Pace maria falconetti biography
Pace maria falconetti biography
Maria Falconetti | French actress | Britannica.
Renée Jeanne Falconetti
French actress
Renée Jeanne Falconetti[1] (21 July 1892 – 12 December 1946), sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti,[2]Marie Falconetti,[3]Renée Maria Falconetti,[4][5] or simply Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her acclaimed role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent The Passion of Joan of Arc and subsequent mysterious and enigmatic death.[6] There is little recorded information about her life and career on the internet, and much of the existing information about her life is contradictory.[7]
Early life and career
Born in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, Falconetti grew up poor and was schooled by nuns who did not support her acting ambitions.
Despite this, she became a stage actress in Paris by entertaining soldiers during World War I. She made a name for herself in the early 1920s, mainly playing roles in light comedies and musicals