Friday, September 4, 2015

Death of actress and humorist Sylvie Joly at age 80 – The Obs

Paris (AFP) – Famous for its “one woman shows” funny and fierce, inspiring many comic, actress and humorist Sylvie Joly has died Friday at age 80 after a career of over 40 years interrupted by Parkinson disease.

“Sylvie was suffering from severe Parkinson’s disease, which is not necessarily fatal. She died of heart failure late in the night at our home in Paris “he told AFP her husband Pierre Vitry.

His funeral will be held Wednesday at the Pere Lachaise cemetery, after a religious ceremony at 10:30 am at the Saint-Sulpice church.

An admirer of his great elder Jacqueline Maillan, Sylvie Joly has inspired many comedians including Muriel Robin, Florence Foresti and Pierre Palmade

Born October 28, 1934 in Paris, the actress has a turbulent youth. ” The poor nuns, I did see them! “. It is ejected seven religious institutions.

This does not prevent him from being a lawyer for five years in the Paris office of Mr. Jacques Isorni, the defender of Petain.

past thirty, she changes her life and enrolled in Simon, while launching the first Consignment chic clothes of the capital. An excellent idea-Brigitte Bardot goes there often – but do not turn from his dream on the stage

Therefore, it alternates cinema and theater.. But it is with his iconoclastic skits that “the lioness”, his nickname, fills the rooms.

His scathing irony spoke beautifully in his “one woman shows”, exercise of which it is a pioneer , like “pretty life Sylvie Joly”, “The Grasshopper and the Joly” or “Never laugh of a woman who falls.”

“She led the way, showing and demonstrating that humor in the women could also win broader public, “said Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin, in a tribute to the comedian

-. ‘Nominationnée bedsores’ –

Great, sparkling beneath his blond curls, she was often dressed in pink, her favorite color.

She was irresistible chic dippy, “duduche” sixteenth arrondissement, hysterical TV producer, postulant unlucky driving licenses, old stripper or even “nominationnée bedsores” (sic). She knew better than anyone mocking the shortcomings of his contemporaries.

At the announcement of his death, several comedians emphasized his influence. Gad Elmaleh tweeted “Farewell My Joly … What you made me laugh …. You taught me so much.”

“Sylvie Joly made me want to do this job, “said Anne Roumanoff AFP. “It triggered my desire to write my first texts.”

“It just set the tone for comic women, it was pretty precursor, one of the first to make one man show after Zouc “added Chantal Ladesous RTL

Having become over the years a gay icon, Sylvie Joly did not believe in a feminine humor.” A posh woman is like a posh man, such a fool and idiot humor is humor. ” But she had tenderness in his way of crunching the characters. True to his style, she was unable to laugh at the suffering of others.

In film, she worked with Yves Robert (“Hi artist”), Bertrand Blier (“The waltzing” “Prepare your handkerchiefs”), Jean-Pierre Mocky (“The miracle”, “The seasons of pleasure”) and Claude Lelouch (“Les Miserables”). But cinema has never brought her the role she dreamed. She has also shot numerous TV movies.

In the theater, Sylvie Joly played Ionesco, Chekhov or Marivaux.

A few days of his 76 years, she revealed that she was suffering Parkinson’s disease.

“While riding on a bike path, I can not help but put twenty times the dismount. I consult specialist and generalist, falls diagnosed as the sky which always threatened to fall on the head of the Gauls ” she wrote in her autobiography “It’s your real name?” (Flammarion).

“Parkinsonism. Rest assured, it is not contagious!” said the doctor. “Ah, it’s still a crap!” she retorted. And “one day I break my hip and there the syndrome began to dry attack me …”

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