Maria Christina "Tina" Aumont (February 14, 1946 â€" October 28, 2006)
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 (1966), but later had
a prominent career as a leading lady in Italian films.Aumont was
billed as Tina Marquand (her married name) in four films, including
Joseph Losey's Modesty Blaise (1966). She was photographed by Angelo
Frontoni (it) 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 (Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario?, 1966), Tinto
Brass (The Howl, 1970 and Salon Kitty, 1975), Sergio Martino (Torso,
1973), Mauro Bolognini (Drama of the Rich, 1974), Francesco Rosi
(Illustrious Corpses, 1975), and Federico Fellini (Fellini's Casanova,
1976). She also played Lonetta, the Indian maiden, in Texas Across the
River (1967), Luciana in Malicious (1973) and Valentina in A Matter of
Time (1976) starring Liza Minnelli. She starred in Lifespan (1975)
with Klaus Kinski.In 2000, she retired from film work. In 2006, she
suffered a pulmonary embolism and died in Port-Vendres,
Pyrénées-Orientales, France, aged 60.
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 (1966), but later had
a prominent career as a leading lady in Italian films.Aumont was
billed as Tina Marquand (her married name) in four films, including
Joseph Losey's Modesty Blaise (1966). She was photographed by Angelo
Frontoni (it) 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 (Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario?, 1966), Tinto
Brass (The Howl, 1970 and Salon Kitty, 1975), Sergio Martino (Torso,
1973), Mauro Bolognini (Drama of the Rich, 1974), Francesco Rosi
(Illustrious Corpses, 1975), and Federico Fellini (Fellini's Casanova,
1976). She also played Lonetta, the Indian maiden, in Texas Across the
River (1967), Luciana in Malicious (1973) and Valentina in A Matter of
Time (1976) starring Liza Minnelli. She starred in Lifespan (1975)
with Klaus Kinski.In 2000, she retired from film work. In 2006, she
suffered a pulmonary embolism and died in Port-Vendres,
Pyrénées-Orientales, France, aged 60.
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