---
name: "Françoise Spira"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/francoise-spira"
fi1m_id: "francoise-spira"
imdb_id: "nm0819020"
tmdb_id: 592749
wikidata_id: "Q1451292"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 December 1928"
died: "4 January 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:24:13.452140+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Françoise Spira

## Identity

Françoise Spira

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/francoise-spira
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** francoise-spira
- **IMDb ID:** nm0819020
- **TMDB ID:** 592749
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1451292
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1451292, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819020/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/592749

Actor. Born 7 December 1928 in Paris, France. Died 4 January 1965.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 December 1928, Paris, France
- **Died:** 4 January 1965
- **Also known as:** Франсуаза Спира
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1451292, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819020/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/592749

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Last Year at Marienbad*](https://film.one/film/last-year-at-marienbad.md) (82)

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## Biography

Françoise Spira was a French actress. She was born on 7 December 1928 in Paris and died on 4 January 1965 in Neauphle-le-Château, Yvelines.

She appeared in films including *Fanfan la Tulipe* (1952, uncredited), *Razzia* (1955) as Yvonne, la dame des lavabos, and *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961) as a character from the hotel. She also worked in theatre, performing with Jean Vilar’s TNP and directing the Théâtre de l’Athénée from 1962 to 1965. During the production of *Last Year at Marienbad*, she shot Super 8 footage on set that was later edited into the 2010 documentary *Souvenirs d’une année à Marienbad* by Volker Schlöndorff.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961), Fi1m 82, as A Character from the Hotel — [page](https://film.one/film/last-year-at-marienbad.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Memories of Last Year in Marienbad* (2010), Director
- *Chicken Soup* (1963), as Maria
- *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961), as A Character from the Hotel — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/last-year-at-marienbad.md)
- *Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?* (1961), as Edith de Branowski
- *La Mort de Pompée* (1961), as Cléopâtre
- *The Cat Shows Her Claws* (1960), as Marie-José
- *Secret professionnel* (1959), as Odette
- *Two Mothers* (1957), as Madelaine
- *Razzia* (1955), as Yvonne, la dame des lavabos
- *Captain Slipper* (1953), as Red-haired lady
- *Fan-Fan the Tulip* (1952), as (uncredited)

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