Marika Green

{{short description|Swedish-French actress (born 1943)}} {{Infobox person |name=Marika Green |image=Marika Green in 2013.jpg |caption=Green in 2013 |birth_name=Marika Nicolette Green |birth_date={{birth date and age|1943|6|21|df=yes}} |birth_place=Stockholm, Sweden |occupation=Actress |spouse=Christian Berger |relatives=Paul Le Flem (maternal grandfather)<br />Eva Green (niece) }} '''Marika Nicolette Green''' (born 21 June 1943) is a Swedish-French actress.

==Life and career== Green was born in Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholm County, the daughter of a French mother, Jeanne Green-Le Flem, born in Paris, and Bror Lennart Green, a Swedish journalist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lebarbu1.skyrock.com/714543303-La-famille-de-Paul-Le-Flem.html|title=La famille de Paul le Flem|date=8 February 2007|access-date=31 May 2012|archive-date=5 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305144834/https://lebarbu1.skyrock.com/714543303-La-famille-de-Paul-Le-Flem.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her paternal grandmother was the photographer Mia Green<ref>{{cite news|first=Jacques|last=Morice|url=https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/eva-green-je-joue-encore-une-femme-fatale-avec-polanski-alors-que-je-ne-le-suis-pas-dans-la-vie,152683.php|title=Eva Green : "Je joue encore une femme fatale avec Polanski, alors que je ne le suis pas dans la vie"|work=Télérama|language=fr|date=16 January 2017|access-date=13 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.catherinehouard.com/en/green-photographic-sights-images-1894-2010/|title=Catherine Houard's Gallery » Green "Photographic Sights Images 1894 – 2010″|access-date=2020-01-03}}</ref> and her maternal grandfather was French composer and music critic Paul Le Flem.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.letelegramme.fr/local/cotes-d-armor/saint-brieuc/ville/paul-le-flem-arriere-grand-pere-d-eva-green-10-06-2013-2131252.php |title= Paul Le Flem, arrière-grand-père d'Eva Green |language=fr|work=Le Télégramme|date= 10 June 2013|accessdate=13 April 2023}}</ref><ref>Le Flem's family genealogy [http://lebarbu1.skyrock.com/704583925-Genealogie-la-branche-des-Le-Flem-1.html] Article published in Ouest-France, january 24, 2007 : "Fifteen days after her husband, Lennart Green, Jeanne Green-Le Flem [...] died Friday aged 95 [...]. The ceremony took place in the privacy of the family [...] her daughter, actress Marika Green, her granddaughters Joy and Eva Green [...] and her daughter in law Marlene Jobert. Madame Green-Le Flem, daughter of [French] composer Paul Le Flem, was buried in the family vault in the cemetery of Vieux-Marché [near the city of Lannion, Brittanny, France].</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://michel.lemeu.pagesperso-orange.fr/le_flem/plf_art.htm|title=Article Ar Men}}</ref> She left Sweden for France in 1953.

She played the lead female role in Robert Bresson's ''Pickpocket'' at the age of 16.

She is the aunt of actress Eva Green and older sister of Walter Green, husband of actress and author Marlène Jobert.<ref>Walter Green, incidentally, played Jacques, the man rejected by Marie in Bresson's ''Au hasard Balthazar'' -http://www.mastersofcinema.org/bresson/TheNews.html#2005-10-29</ref> Green married Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}, regular collaborator of director Michael Haneke.

==Filmography== thumb|Green in 1968 * ''Pickpocket'' (1959) by Robert Bresson : Jeanne * ''Le Récit de Rebecca'' (1964) by Paul Vecchiali * ''Five Ashore in Singapore'' (1967) by Bernard Toublanc-Michel * ''Le Golem'' (television - 1967) by Louis Pauwels and Jean Kerchbron * ''Rider on the Rain'' (1969) by René Clément * ''L'Affaire Crazy Capo'' (1973) * ''Emmanuelle'' (1974) by Just Jaeckin : Bee * ''Le Bal des voyous'' (1968) by Jean-Claude Dague * ''La Fille d'en face'' (1968) by Jean-Daniel Simon * ''Until September'' (1984) by Richard Marquand * ''Hanna en mer'' (1991) by Christian Berger

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|338126}}

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