 Early in her career she was mostly a singer and eventually became an actress.She most notably played the role of Madame Lajoie in François Truffaut's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film winner, "Day for Night" (1973) (originally billed as "La Nuit américaine", France) for which Truffaut was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.The film won the 1973 BAFTA Award for Best Film.