Marika Green Explained

Marika Green
Birth Name:	Marika Nicolette Green
Birth Date:	21 June 1943
Birth Place:	Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation:	Actress
Spouse:	Christian Berger
Relatives:	Paul Le Flem (maternal grandfather) Eva Green (niece)

Marika Nicolette Green (born 21 June 1943) is a Swedish-French actress.

Life and career

Green was born in Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholm County, the daughter of a French mother, Jeanne Green-Le Flem, and Lennart Green, a Swedish journalist.^[1] Her paternal grandmother was the photographer Mia Green^{[2] [3]} and her maternal grandfather was French composer and music critic Paul Le Flem.^{[4] [5] [6]} She left Sweden for France in 1953.

She played the lead female role in Robert Bresson's Pickpocket at the age of 16.

She is the aunt of actress Eva Green and older sister of Walter Green, husband of actress and author Marlène Jobert.^[7] Green married Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger, regular collaborator of director Michael Haneke.

Filmography

• Pickpocket (1959) by Robert Bresson : Jeanne
• Le Récit de Rebecca (1964) by Paul Vecchiali
• Five Ashore in Singapore (1967) by Bernard Toublanc-Michel
• Le Golem (television - 1967) by Louis Pauwels and Jean Kerchbron
• Rider on the Rain (1969) by René Clément
• L'Affaire Crazy Capo (1973)
• Emmanuelle (1974) by Just Jaeckin : Bee
• Le Bal des voyous (1968) by Jean-Claude Dague
• La Fille d'en face (1968) by Jean-Daniel Simon
• Until September (1984) by Richard Marquand
• Hanna en mer (1991) by Christian Berger

Notes and References

1. Web site: La famille de Paul le Flem. 8 February 2007.
2. News: Jacques. Morice. Eva Green : "Je joue encore une femme fatale avec Polanski, alors que je ne le suis pas dans la vie". Télérama. fr. 16 January 2017. 13 April 2023.
3. Web site: Catherine Houard's Gallery » Green "Photographic Sights Images 1894 – 2010″. 2020-01-03.
4. News: Paul Le Flem, arrière-grand-père d'Eva Green . fr. Le Télégramme. 10 June 2013. 13 April 2023.
5. Le Flem's family genealogy http://lebarbu1.skyrock.com/704583925-Genealogie-la-branche-des-Le-Flem-1.html Article published in Ouest-France, january 24, 2007 : "Fifteen days after her husband, Lennart Green, Jeanne Green-Le Flem [...] died Friday aged 95 [...]. The ceremony took place in the privacy of the family [...] her daughter, actress Marika Green, her granddaughters Joy and Eva Green [...] and her daughter in law Marlene Jobert. Madame Green-Le Flem, daughter of [French] composer Paul Le Flem, was buried in the family vault in the cemetery of Vieux-Marché [near the city of Lannion, Brittanny, France].
6. Web site: Article Ar Men.
7. Walter Green, incidentally, played Jacques, the man rejected by Marie in Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar -http://www.mastersofcinema.org/bresson/TheNews.html#2005-10-29