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name: "Yvonne Sanson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yvonne-sanson"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 August 1925"
died: "23 July 2003"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T10:52:55.865620+00:00"
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# Yvonne Sanson

Actor. Born 30 August 1925 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Died 23 July 2003.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 August 1925, Thessaloniki, Greece
- **Died:** 23 July 2003
- **Also known as:** Ivonne Sanson, Ивонн Сансон

## Biography

Yvonne Sanson was a Greek actress who worked primarily in Italy. Born Fotini Sapountzakis in Thessaloniki, she appeared in 46 films between 1946 and 1972.

She began her career with small roles and gained notice for her performance as Ginevra Canale in Alberto Lattuada's *Flesh Will Surrender* (1947). Sanson frequently collaborated with actor Amedeo Nazzari in popular melodramas directed by Raffaello Matarazzo, including *Chains* (1949) and *Nobody's Children* (1951). She later played Giulia's mother in Bernardo Bertolucci's *The Conformist* (1970).

Sanson was naturalised Italian and died in Bologna in 2003.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Conformist* (1971), Fi1m 87, as Giulia's Mother — [page](https://film.one/film/the-conformist.md)

## Also known for

- *Day of Anger* (1967), Vivien Skill
- *Frisky* (1954), La nuova levatrice (uncredited)
- *The Miller's Beautiful Wife* (1955), Donna Dolores
- *Lo smemorato di Collegno* (1962), Linda Ballarini
- *The Three Musketeers* (1953), Milady de Winter
- *The Emperor of Capri* (1949), Sonia Bulgarov

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