Sylvia Bataille
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Sylvia Bataille, born Sylvia Maklès, was a French actress, born the 1st November 1908 in Paris, where she died on the 23 December 1993. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she has a son in 1930, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille (died in 1966). Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until 1946. Starting in 1938, she was a companion of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, with whom, in 1941 she had a daughter, Judith, today Judith Miller, also a psychoanalyst. Sylvia Bataille married Jacques Lacan in 1953.
A pupil of Charles Dullin, Sylvia Bataille's theatrical debuted was with the agit-prop troupe Group Octobre, directed by Jacques Prévert. Her film debut came in 1933, and in 1936 she played her most memorable role in Partie de campagne by Jean Renoir. Her final appearance was in 1950.
