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- Birth nameÉdith Helena Vladimirovna Scobeltzine
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Édith Scob was a French stage and screen actress. Though Édith Scob was a major figure in French theater for over half a century and appeared in over a hundred feature film and television productions, she will always be remembered first for her performance as Christiane in Georges Franju's "Les yeux sans visage/Eyes Without a Face" (1960). It was two years before that Scob, still a student of French and drama at the Sorbonne, had begun appearing onstage, launching a remarkable theatrical career that would include cofounding a theater in the late 1960s with her husband, composer Georges Aperghis. Later she appeared in films by Luis Buñuel, Raúl Ruiz, Jacques Rivette, Andrzej Zutawskiand, Olivier Assayas and Mia Hansen-Løve. Leos Carax cast Édith Scob in "Les amants du Pont-Neuf/The Lovers on the Bridge" (1991) and two decades later, he offered her the role of Céline, the close friend and chauffeur of Denis Lavant's mysterious Oscar in "Holy Motors" (2012).- IMDb mini biography by: Criterion/The Guardian
- SpouseGeorges Aperghis(1965 - June 26, 2019) (her death, 2 children)
- Often worked with Georges Franju
- Often appears in experimental, ground-breaking movies
- Usually played ethereal characters in her youth
- Swan neck
- Sister of cyclist Michel Scob (1935-1995).
Their father was an architect and son of an Imperial Russian Army general.
Their maternal grandfather, pastor Henri Nick, and other members of his family, were honored on 5 May, 1992 by Israel's Yad Vashem as Righteous Gentiles Among the Nations for their efforts to rescue Jews from Nazi persecution during the Holocaust. - She and her husband Georges Aperghis co-founded Atem 'Atelier théâtre et musique.
- Georges Franju believed that Spotlight on a Murderer (1961) would have been more successful had Edith played a role in it.
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