Deceased

How Did Sylvia Bataille Die?

Life & Death

Died aged 85

GenderFemaleNationalityFranceBorn01/11/1908Died22/12/1993Died in7th arrondissement of ParisCausemyocardial infarctionWikidataQ2636468 ↗Buried atMontparnasse CemeteryTMDb#556944 ↗

Sylvia Bataille was a French actress of Romanian-Jewish descent. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille (1930–1986). Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until 1946. Starting in 1938, she was a companion of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with whom, in 1941, she had a daughter, Judith. Sylvia Bataille married Jacques Lacan in 1953.

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Filmography26 titles

Year	Title	Character	Age at release
1994	Un tournage à la campagneMovie	Self	86
1950	Julie de CarneilhanMovie	Lucie	42
1950	The Ways of LoveMovie	Henriette	42
1946	Gates of the NightMovie	Claire Lécuyer	38
1946	A Day in the CountryMovie	Henriette	38
1945	Ils étaient cinq permissionnairesMovie	Geneviève	37
1941	The Tale of the FoxMovie	Rabbit	33
1941	Hell of AngelsMovie	Simone	33
1940	Hangman's NooseMovie	Anny, waitress	32
1940	Camp ThirteenMovie	Marie-Louise	32
1939	Serge PanineMovie	Micheline	31
1939	Latin QuarterMovie	Sylvia	31
1939	L'Étrange Nuit de NoëlMovie	Marie	31
1939	Le Château des 4 obèsesMovie	L'assistante de Carter	31
1939	Corsican BrothersMovie	—	31
1937	Courier of LyonsMovie	Madeleine Brebant	29
1937	French White CargoMovie	Yvette Martin	29
1937	Confessions of a NewlywedMovie	Paulette Papillot	29
1937	ForfaitureMovie	Ming	29
1936	The Crime of Monsieur LangeMovie	Edith	28
1936	JennyMovie	Florence	28
1936	TopazeMovie	Ernestine Muche	28
1936	RoseMovie	—	28
1936	Œil de lynx, détectiveMovie	—	28
1934	SkylarkMovie	Marie-Jeanne	26
1933	La Voix sans visageMovie	(uncredited)	25