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Marie-France Pisier | French actress, 66

Marie-France Pisier, 66, a French actress who was discovered as a teen by filmmaker Francois Truffaut and went on to star in Cousin, Cousine , Truffaut's Love on the Run , and other movies, has died.

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Marie-France Pisier, 66, a French actress who was discovered as a teen by filmmaker Francois Truffaut and went on to star in

Cousin, Cousine

, Truffaut's

Love on the Run

, and other movies, has died.

Ms. Pisier's body was discovered April 24 by her husband, Thierry Funck-Brentano, in the swimming pool of their home in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France, according to the news agency Agence France-Presse. The cause of death was not known, but foul play was not suspected, authorities said.

Truffaut directed her in her first film, Antoine and Colette, with Jean-Pierre Leaud, a short that is part of 1962's Love at Twenty. Ms. Pisier and Leaud played the same characters in 1979's Love on the Run - Los Angeles Times

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