Catherine Spaak


Catherine Spaak is a Belgian-French-Italian actress and singer.

Personal life

Catherine Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine.
Spaak married her current husband, Vladimiro Tusellie, in 2013.

Film career

Spaak spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Spaak was the lead actress in at least 12 movies. As an adult, she appeared in many comedies and a few dramas from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. Most of them were for the Italian film industry, with some Hollywood or international productions. Among her most notable titles are Circle of Love, The Man, the Woman and the Money, The Incredible Army of Brancaleone, Adultery Italian Style, Hotel, the sex comedy The Libertine, Diary of a Telephone Operator, the drama The Cat o' Nine Tails, the nunsploitation film Story of a Cloistered Nun, the controversial My Darling Slave, the western Take a Hard Ride, Sunday Lovers, and Miele di donna.

Singing career

As a singer, Spaak was regarded by some as the Italian equivalent of French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, some of whose songs she recorded in 1963. She recorded under the label DET under the direction of Maestro Ezio Leoni, who previously produced Françoise Hardy.

Selected filmography