Francoise Blanchard

Françoise Blanchard was a French actress, best known for her starring role as Catherine Valmont in Jean Rollin's 1982 horror film La morte vivante (The Living Dead Girl), where she played a woman reanimated as a zombie/vampire-like creature. She also appeared in films like Caligula and Messalina (1981) and Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power (1982), and worked as an art director on some projects. Her career spanned from 1979 to 2013, often in cult horror and exploitation cinema.

Born on June 6, 1954, in France, Blanchard was active in the industry for 34 years, starting around age 25. She had blonde hair, brown eyes, and an average build. She was of Caucasian ethnicity and identified as straight. Blanchard passed away on May 24, 2013, at age 58, in Caen, Calvados, France. Some sources list the date as May 29, but Wikipedia and most reliable references confirm May 24. Her death came just twelve days before her 59th birthday. The cause of death was never publicly disclosed or reported in any major sources, including her Wikipedia page, IMDb, obituaries in film blogs, and industry tributes. No official coroner details, family statements, or news articles specify illness, accident, or other circumstances; it's consistently noted as undisclosed.