Marie-Pierre Casey is a French actress and author, born January 24, 1937 in Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire). Student of René Simon, she began her career in the cabarets of the left bank. Mainly known for her numerous roles in theater, film and television, she participates in radio dramas since the 2000s for Radio France. In 1980, she was awarded the Minerve prize, the Oscar for advertising received for the Pliz ad. Author of numerous one-woman shows, she presented her first sketch at the Olympia (1984), Painter on oneself at the Théâtre du Tourtour (1987-1988) and Du coq à l'âme at the Théâtre Déjazet (1991). From the 1970s onwards, she played some remarkable supporting roles in films, before achieving fame by becoming one of the key figures in television in the 1980s. Star actress of French television dramas, she played Madame Moulinard in Marc et Sophie (1987-1992), Madame Leblanc in the series Cluedo (1994-1995), Lucienne Le Kervelec in En famille (since 2018) and Claude in La Flamme (2020). In 1995, she played the title role in the series Les Gromelot et les Dupinson, launched by France 2 to succeed Maguy. The same year she co-presented with Daniel Schick, Maman va adorer, on Saturday nights in prime time on TF1. In 2023, she is in the film Les Petites Victoires by Mélanie Auffret. Early life and education Marie-Pierre Casey was born on January 24, 1937 in Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire. At the age of nine, she went to boarding school in Charolais with her sister and discovered her passion for the theater where she put on the clothes of Prof - a leader of the seven dwarfs in the Snow White tale by the Grimm brothers - for the end-of-year party organized by the nuns. She grew up in Le Creusot with her grandparents, where she developed a taste for theatrical performance when she arrived at school with her grandfather's driver. She studied at the Conservatory of Lyon and at the Cours Simon in Paris, before launching herself in cabarets on the Left Bank. Career In the early 1950s, Marie-Pierre Casey gets a small role, a silhouette of a sister at the end of the film Forbidden Games by Rene Clement (1952). She began in the cabarets of the Left Bank, where she was noticed in a sketch with a bow on his head and daisy in hand. In the 1960s, she played several