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Princess Hélène Gagarin, older sister of actress Macha Méril and former audiovisual editor, died at 96 years old; His funeral will take place in Paris.
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Macha Méril is in mourning. As revealed by the necrological notebook of Figaro This Thursday, August 14, Princess Hélène Gagarine died at the age of 96. The latter is none other than the actress’s older sister. In a brief death notice, Macha and her sister Elisabeth, Michel and Nino, her nephews and niece, and Elisabeth, her little-nieceannounce with sadness the disappearance of Hélène Gagarine.
Princess Hélène Gagarin, born in 1929, will be celebrated on Wednesday August 20 in the Saint-Alexandre-Nevski cathedral in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. She will then be buried In the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne).
Much less known than her little sister Macha Méril, Hélène Gagarine had undertaken however A nice career in audiovisual and cinema. As an editor and producer, she had worked in the 1970s for many successful proposals. We owe him the editing of the film Beyond fear With Michel Bouquet. It has also set up many episodes of the border series of the possible, Belle and Sébastien, Vidocq, Sébastien among men, Sébastien and La Mary-Morgane et Associated investigators.
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Macha Méril’s family comes from the Russian nobility
Born Marie-Madeleine Gagarin, Macha Méril is the last of a siblings of four children. His parents, from the Russian nobility, fled their country after the 1917 revolution To reach the French Riviera. His older brother, Georges Gagarin, died at 23 in Germany during the Second World War. Then follow Princess Hélène in 1929 and Princess Elisabeth a few years later. Macha closes the siblings in 1940. At the age of six, his dad, who worked as an agronomist engineer at the French protectorate in Morocco, Dies typhus.
Macha Méril, her two sisters and their mother then returned to France. They join Bagneux, in the Paris region. The youngest of the Gagarin family joins the Lycée Marie-Curie de Sceaux, then undertakes studies of letters, which she quickly interrupts to enter Charles Dullin. She meets the director Gérard Oury therewho urges him to find a stage name. Fan of the jazz singer Helen Merill, Marie-Madeleine Gagarine thus becomes Macha Méril.
