Tina Aumont


Maria Christina "Tina" Aumont was an American actress. She was the daughter of French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont and Dominican actress Maria Montez. She made her acting debut in the British film Modesty Blaise, but later had a prominent career as a leading lady in Italian films.
Aumont was billed as Tina Marquand in four films, including Joseph Losey's Modesty Blaise. She was photographed by Angelo Frontoni in 1968, when she had ankle/floor length hair, of which some semi-nude pictures were published in a pictorial of her in Playboy in 1969. She worked in Italian cinema with, among others, Alberto Sordi, Tinto Brass, Sergio Martino, Mauro Bolognini, Francesco Rosi, and Federico Fellini. She also played Lonetta, the Indian maiden, in Texas Across the River, Luciana in Malicious and Valentina in A Matter of Time starring Liza Minnelli. She starred in Lifespan with Klaus Kinski.

Death

In 2000, she retired from film work. In 2006, she suffered a pulmonary embolism and died in Port-Vendres, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, aged 60.

Partial filmography