Actress, Director, Author. She was a popular leading lady during the French “New Wave” era of the 1970s. Born in Dalat, Indochina (now Vietnam), the daughter of a French government official, she spent part of her childhood in New Caledonia before her family settled in Paris prior to her teenage years. She made her film debut at the age of seventeen in Francois Truffaut’s short “Antoine et Colette” (1962), but would continue her education at the University of Paris from where she attained degrees in Law and Political Science. After nearly a decade of sporadic and relatively unremarkable pictures, she achieved fame with her Cesar Award-winning performance in “Cousin cousine” (1975), followed by the acclaimed “French Provincial” (1975). This success led her to Hollywood, as she was cast in the lead role for the motion picture adaptation of Sydney Sheldon’s novel “The Other Side of Midnight” (1977), as well as her adorning the cover of Playboy that same year. She received her second Cesar Award for “Barocco” (1976), and reunited with Truffaut in “Love on the Run” (1979). Pisier’s novel “Le Bal Du Governeur” (“The Governor’s Party”) was make into a 1990 motion picture adaptation which she directed. She died from an apparent drowning in her French villa swimming pool. (bio by: C.S.)