Clio Goldsmith

Acting

Clio Goldsmith

Born

1957-06-16 (69)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Clio Goldsmith (born 16 June 1957) is a French former actress, appearing mostly as a femme fatale in some films of the early 1980s. She is a member of the prominent Goldsmith family through her father ecologist Edward Goldsmith. Goldsmith was married to British travel writer Mark Shand, thus a former sister-in-law to Queen Camilla. She began acting in the 1980 movie The Cricket of Alberto Lattuada. Alongside Virna Lisi and Anthony Franciosa, she played a fun-loving girl ending up as prostitute. In 1981, she played prostitute Clemence in Mauro Bolognini's The Lady of the Camellias together with Isabelle Huppert. In Plein sud, she vows she will take up with the first fool she sees, seducing P…

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 9 titles

Honey poster
4.9

A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.

Honey

1981

Bankers Also Have Souls poster
5.0

A bank clerk is given an unusual retirement gift, a high class call girl. Unaware that he has been 'set up' by colleagues the man goes with the girl to Venice where he enjoys his new found virility.

Bankers Also Have Souls

1982

The Cricket poster
5.3

An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.

The Cricket

1980

Lady of the Camelias poster
6.1

A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.

Lady of the Camelias

1981

The Big Pardon poster
6.2

The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.

The Big Pardon

1982

Heat of Desire poster
5.6

In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.

Heat of Desire

1981

Miss Right poster
4.2

After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his numerous female lovers one by one.

Miss Right

1982

The Fall of the Rebel Angels poster
4.7

Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and a good job: yet she decides to join him and to become his lover, sharing his destiny right up to its tragic conclusion.

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

1981

L'Étincelle poster
6.0

A beautiful DJ starts a romantic relationship with an older antiquarian. The only problem: she's pregnant and already hitched.

L'Étincelle

1984

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