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At the age of eight and a half Anny Legras and her sister Patricia eight years younger than her loose their parents, who die of suffocation caused by a wrong installed bathroom oven. For some minutes too late Anny, who sleeps next door, discovers the death bodies. Both orphans are divided up in their parents` families and live their own lives.

Anny is attracted very young by dance and even more by theater. With special permission she is allowed to leave the College Camille St Saens two years earlier as usual to exchange to the academy of arts of her hometown. After two years of studies she wins a First Price of Comedy and at the age of seventeen she leaves Rouen with destination Paris with the firm intention to attend the academy of arts in the capital.



Anny Duperey starts by following René Simon`s courses of dramatic art, while earning her money in parallel as model for mode and magazines. Then she enters finally to the Academy. And it is just in her first year in the establishment that she is noticed by Jean Meyer, who engages her with the Théâtre Michel for The three marriages of Melanie. Anny Duperey plays then in Mamma, at the sides of Elvire Popesco. About the same time - so the story goes - Jean-Luc Godard discovers her face on the cover of a magazine and wants her by all means for a bigger role in his Nouvelle Vague movie Two or three things that I know of her. So she has her movie debut in 1966.