Monday 10 April 2023

Véronique Ryke

 She appeared in the episode of Maigret shown on Talking Pictures TV last week. She played the small but important part of a governess to the child of an American family visiting Paris. Her mid-Atlantic accent was authentic, but it appears she was born Veronike Rijke in the Netherlands round about 1963. She married, or was partner to, the director Eric Magnan and was probably the mother of Alec and Alexandre Magnan who assisted on a couple of the older Magnan's pictures. She also released an electro-pop album in 1988. Sadly for such a talented lady, it appears she died in Paris in the early 2000s. 

All that is second-hand information, which I cannot back up with official publications. I would dearly love to fill out the skeletal IMDb entry, so if anyone can give me a link to an authentic document, I would be glad.


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