Trivia

Is a famous French singer and not an actress. She is a well-known star in France, of popular "variety" songs. Like most French singers, she has appeared in an occasional film role, but is by no means an actress, nor does she consider herself one.

Has supported Emmanuel Macron's 2017 presidential campaign.

Is an AIDS activist.

In 1945, she moved to Paris and got her first gig in Folies Belleville, then billed as Jacqueline Ray. Later made her national debut on Radio Luxembourg,.

Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, who played trumpet on weekends in a local brass band.