{{short description|French actress}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand French|topic=bio|Gisèle Pascal|date=December 2013}} {{more footnotes needed|date=January 2013}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Gisèle Pascal | image = Gisèle Pascal.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Gisèle Marie Madeleine Tallone | birth_date = 17 September 1921 | birth_place = Cannes, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|2|2|1921|9|17|df=y}} | death_place = Nîmes, France | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = 1942-1992 | spouse = Raymond Pellegrin<br>(1955-2007) | children = 1 | website = }}
'''Gisèle Pascal''' (17 September 1921 – 2 February 2007) was a French actress<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090118160020/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/131239 BFI.org]</ref> and a former lover of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.<ref name=iObit>{{cite news |title= Giselle Pascal : Actress lover of Prince Rainier |author= Pierre Perrone |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/giselle-pascal-435470.html|newspaper= The Independent |date= 8 February 2007 |accessdate= 8 February 2007}}</ref>
She was born '''Gisèle Marie Madeleine Tallone''' at Cannes, France.<ref name=iObit/> Her first movie role was in 1942's ''L'Arlésienne''.
For six years, she was involved in a relationship with Prince Rainier, and lived together in a villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.<ref name=iObit/> Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Rainier's sister, seeking to obtain the throne of Monaco for her own son, spread malicious rumors that Pascal was incapable of bearing children. A contemplated marriage was called off when a medical examination mistakenly reported that she was infertile.<ref name=iObit/>
Pascal subsequently married actor Raymond Pellegrin on 8 October 1955 and had a daughter,<ref name=iObit/> Pascale Pellegrin, on 12 September 1962.
==Stage credits== * ''Amour, Délices et orgues'' (also known as ''Collège Swing'') (1947) * ''Véronique'' (1949) * ''Boum sur Paris'' (1954)
==Partial filmography== {{Div col}} * ''L'Arlésienne'' (1942) - Vivette * ''The Beautiful Adventure'' (1942) - Hélène de Trévillac * ''Two Timid Souls'' (1943) - Une des jeunes filles * ''La Vie de bohème'' (1945) - Musette * ''Lunegarde'' (1946) - Élisabeth de Lunegarde * ''Madame et son flirt'' (1946) - Claudette Sauvaget * ''Les J3'' (1946) - Mademoiselle Bravard - la prof de philo * ''Dropped from Heaven'' (1946) - Madeleine * ''Loves, Delights and Organs'' (1947) - Micheline * ''Last Refuge'' (1947) - Antoinette Baron * ''After Love'' (1947) - Germaine By * ''Mademoiselle Has Fun'' (1948) - Christine Gibson * ''The Nude Woman'' (1949) - Loulou * ''The Chocolate Girl'' (1949) - Benjamine Lapistolle * ''Véronique'' (1950) - Estelle * ''Beautiful Love'' (1951) - Suzanne Gérard-Moulin * ''Endless Horizons'' (1953) - Hélène Boucher * ''Boum sur Paris'' (1953) - Giselle Pascal * ''Royal Affairs in Versailles'' (1954) - Louise de la Vallière * ''Women Without Hope'' (1954) - Marie-Thérèse Langeac * ''Fire Under Her Skin'' (1954) - Thérèse Rabou * ''Madonna of the Sleeping Cars'' (1955) - Lady Diana Wyndham * ''Mademoiselle from Paris'' (1955) - Micheline Bertier * ''If Paris Were Told to Us'' (1956) - Comtesse de G... * ''Pity for the Vamps'' (1956) - Jany Cristal-Davis * ''Sylviane de mes nuits'' (1957) - Gaby Lemontier * ''Ça n'arrive qu'aux vivants'' (1959) - Anne Brunier * ''Le Masque de fer'' (1962) - Mme de Chaulmes * ''Seul... à corps perdu'' (1964) - Lydia Simon * ''Secret World'' (1969) - Florence * ''Un caso di coscienza'' (1970) - Rosaria * ''At the Top of the Stairs'' (1983) - Rose * ''Les Compères'' (1983) - Louise * ''The Public Woman'' (1984) - Gertrude * ''Juillet en septembre'' (1988) - Madame Dewacker {{div col end}}
==References== <references/>
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070218042439/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2248760.ece Obituary in The Independent] * {{IMDb name|name=Gisèle Pascal|id=0664263}} * {{Find a Grave|17875664}} *[http://www.allmovie.com/artist/gisle-pascal-148862 Gisèle Pascal] at Allmovie
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