Friday, September 4, 2015

Death of Sylvie Joly, a pioneer of the “one woman show” and Queen of tongue-in-cheek – The Obs

Paris (AFP) – The actress and humorist Sylvie Joly, with Parkinson’s disease for several years, died Friday at age 80, said her husband AFP

<. p> “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,” said Pierre Vitry.

Sylvie Joly was first a lawyer before turning to comic career, with shows that, alone on stage, she stood out by a ferocious humor.

In the eve of her 76th birthday, she announced that Parkinson’s achievement in his autobiography and wanted by this revelation help raise awareness of the disease.

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

Already ill, she had managed to play the final performances of his show “The icing on the cake” and the movie “The Red Inn” to Gérard Krawczyk in 2007. But since then she had not been able to get back on stage.

Among his best-known performances include “The Grasshopper and the Joly”, “Never laugh a woman who falls “,” Life is not a joke “or” Best of “.

Sylvie Joly worked, since the 70s, with filmmakers like Yves Robert, Bertrand Blier, Jean-Pierre Mocky and Claude Lelouch.

In the theater, she starred in plays by Ionesco, Chekhov or Marivaux and was led by Tania Balachova or Georges Wilson.

She was named in 1988 for the César for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1999 and Molière for Best show skits.

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