Juliette Mayniel (22 January 1936 – 21 July 2023) was a French actress.

She appeared in more than 30 films and television shows between 1958 and 1978.

At the 10th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in the film The Fair. 

From 1964 to 1968 she was the partner of the Italian actor Vittorio Gassman with whom she had a son, Alessandro Gassmann (born 24 February 1965) is an Italian actor and film director., an actor too.

Leonardo Gassmann (born 22 November 1998), known as Leo Gassmann, is an Italian singer and songwriter.
Grandson of the actors Vittorio Gassman and Juliette Mayniel Italian singer and songwriter Leonardo Gassmann (born 22 November 1998), known as Leo Gassmann.

She lived in Mexico.

Early life

The daughter of French peasants, Mayniel grew up in an isolated village. Her parents' country house became the Allied headquarters during World War II.

Her feature film debut was Les Cousins. The film's director and producer, Claude Chabrol, writes in his autobiography that he discovered her in an advertisement film for soap.

Mayniel died on 21 July 2023, at the age of 87.

Selected filmography

• Les Cousins (1959)
• The Fair (1960)
• Eyes Without a Face (1960)
• The Trojan Horse (1961)
• Landru (1963)
• Ophelia (1963)
• Because, Because of a Woman (1963)
• Amori pericolosi (1964)
• Assassination in Rome (1965)
• L'Odissea (1968)
• Listen, Let's Make Love (1969)
• Flatfoot (1973)
• The Bloodstained Shadow (1978)