Magali Noël is a Turkish-French

Turks in France

Turks in France or French Turks are Turkish people who have immigrated to France. However, the term may also refer to French-born persons who have Turkish parents or who have a Turkish ancestral background...

 actress and singer. Originally from Izmir

Izmir

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, she emigrated from Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 to France

France

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 in 1951, and her acting career began soon thereafter. She acted in multilingual cinema chiefly from 1951 to 1980, doing several films in Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 with renowned director Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

, for whom she was a favourite subject. She also acted in films directed by such well-known names as Costa Gavras, Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...

, and Jules Dassin

Jules Dassin

Julius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:...

. Her career extended to television movies from roughly 1980 to 2002.

Her recording career began in France in 1956, and her most famous song was "Fais-moi mal, Johnny" ("Hurt me Johnny"), written by Boris Vian

Boris Vian

Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their...

. This song was one of the first rock 'n' roll songs with French lyrics. It was forbidden on the radio for a long time due to its risqué lyrics describing – with a great sense of humour and derision – a sadomasochistic episode.

Filmography

• 1951 : Demain nous divorçons - Jeanne Tourelle
• 1951 : Seul dans Paris
  Seul dans Paris
  Seul dans Paris is a 1951 French film. It stars Bourvil, Magali Noël, Georgette Anys and Yvette Etiévant....
  
  - Jeanette Milliard
• 1953 : Deux de l'escadrille
• 1954 : Mourez nous ferons le reste - Françoise
• 1955 : Le Fils de Caroline chérie - Térésa
• 1955 : Chantage - Denise
• 1955 : Razzia sur la chnouf - Lisette
• 1955 : Du rififi chez les hommes (Rififi) - Viviane
• 1955 : Les Grandes Manœuvres
  The Grand Maneuver
  The Grand Maneuver is a 1955 romantic drama film directed and written by René Clair, and starring Michèle Morgan and Gérard Philipe. In 1974, the film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* Michèle Morgan as Marie-Louise Rivière...
  
  - Thérèse
• 1956 : OSS 117 n'est pas mort - Muriel Rousset
• 1956 : Les Possédées - Pia Manosque
• 1956 : Eléna et les hommes - Lolotte
• 1957 : Assassins et voleurs - Madeleine Ferrand
• 1958 : La Loi de l'homme (È arrivata la parigina) - Yvette
• 1958 : Le désir mène les hommes - Nathalie
• 1958 : Si le roi savait ça - Arnaude
• 1958 : Le Piège - Cora Caillé
• 1959 : Des femmes disparaissent - Coraline Merlin
• 1959 : Ça n'arrive qu'aux vivants - Gloria Selby
• 1959 : Oh! Qué mambo - Viviane Montero
• 1959 : L'Île du bout du monde - Jane
• 1960 : Gastone - Sonia
• 1960 : Boulevard
  Boulevard (1960 film)
  Boulevard is a French film directed by Julien Duvivier, released in 1960, and set in the Quartier Pigalle. It focuses on the character 'Jojo', an adolescent who lives in a poor room in Pigalle. Among the others who share the house where he lives is Jenny Dorr , a dancer, about whose glamorous...
  
  - Jenny Dorr
• 1960 : A qualcuna piace calvo - Marcella Salustri
• 1960 : Marie des Isles - Julie
• 1960 : La dolce vita
  La Dolce Vita
  La Dolce Vita is a 1960 comedy-drama film written and directed by the critically acclaimed director Federico Fellini. The film is a story of a passive journalist's week in Rome, and his search for both happiness and love that will never come...
  
  - Fanny
• 1960 : Noi siamo due evasi - Odette
• 1961 : Le Sahara brûle - Lénq
• 1961 : La ragazza in vetrina - Chanel
• 1961 : La Loi de la guerre (Legge di guerra) - Olga
• 1961 : Jeunesse de nuit (Gioventù di notte)
• 1961 : Dans la gueule du loup - Barbara Yabakos
• 1961 : En pleine bagarre (Mani in alto)
• 1961 : Le Jeu de l'assassin (Mörderspiel) - Eva Troger
• 1962 : Le Secret de d'Artagnan (Il Colpo segreto di d'Artagnan) - Carlotta
• 1963 : Totò e Cleopatra - Cleopatra
• 1963 : Queste pazze pazze donne
• 1963 : Tempête sur Ceylan (Das Todesauge von Ceylon) - Gaby
• 1963 : L'Accident - Andréa
• 1964 : La Traite des blanches - Louisa
• 1964 : Requiem pour un caïd - Éva
• 1964 : Oltraggio al pudore - Giovenella's sister
• 1964 : Le Dernier Tiercé - Lydia
• 1964 : La Corde au cou
• 1965 : Aventure à Beyrouth (La Dama de Beirut)
• 1966 : Comment ne pas épouser un milliardaire (TV serial) - Delia Delamarre
• 1967 : Le Golem (TV) - Angelina
• 1968 : Le Mois le plus beau - Claudia
• 1969 : Z
  Z (film)
  Z is a 1969 French language political thriller directed by Costa Gavras, with a screenplay by Gavras and Jorge Semprún, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos. The film presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek...
  
  - Nick's sister
• 1969 : L'Astragale - Annie
• 1969 : I marziani hanno dodici mani - Matilde Bernabei
• 1969 : Satyricon
  Satyricon (film)
  Satyricon is a 1969 Italian fantasy drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini. It is loosely based on Petronius's work, Satyricon, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome.-Plot:The film opens on a graffiti-covered...
  
  - Fortunata
• 1970 : Edipeon
• 1970 : Tropique du Cancer (Tropic of Cancer) - the princess
• 1970 : Les Brebis du révérend (Kyrkoherden) - the countess
• 1970 : The Man Who Had Power Over Women
  The Man Who Had Power Over Women
  The Man Who Had Power Over Women is a 1970 British comedy film directed by John Krish and starring Rod Taylor, Carol White and James Booth. A successful Australian talent agent grows disenchanted with his life, which includes includes a failing marriage and having to represent a troublesome rock...
  
  - Mme Franchetti
• 1971 : Le Belve
• 1971 : Il prete sposato - Signora Bellini
• 1972 : Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti
• 1972 : Comme avant mieux qu'avant (TV) - Fulvia Gelli
• 1972 : Le p'tit vient vite - La garde-malade
• 1973 : Amarcord
  Amarcord
  Amarcord is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the fictional town of Borgo in 1930s Fascist Italy...
  
  - Ninola/"Gradisca", the hairdresser
• 1975 : Il tempo degli assassini - Rossana
• 1975 : Paolo Barca maestro elementare praticamente nudista
• 1975 : La Banca di Monate
• 1977 : Stato interessante
• 1978 : Jean-Christophe
  Jean-Christophe
  Jean-Christophe is the novel in ten volumes by Romain Rolland for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. It was translated into English by Gilbert Cannan....
  
  (TV serial)
• 1978 : Les Rendez-vous d'Anna - Ida
• 1980 : Le Chemin perdu - Maria
• 1980 : Le président est gravement malade (TV) - Edith Wilson
• 1982 : Les Confessions du chevalier d'industrie Felix Krull ("Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull") (feuilleton TV) - Mme Houpflé
• 1982 : Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ? - Sarah, David's mother
• 1982 : L'Enfant et les magiciens (TV) - Aunt Marguerite
• 1983 : Les Années 80
• 1983 : La Mort de Mario Ricci - Solange
• 1984 : Sortie interdite (TV) - Mado
• 1985 : Diesel - Mickey
• 1985 : Vertiges - Constance
• 1986 : Exit-exil - Solange
• 1986 : L'Amour tango (TV) - Angèle
• 1988 : On the Orient, North (The Ray Bradbury Theater
  The Ray Bradbury Theater
  The Ray Bradbury Theater is an anthology series that ran for two seasons on HBO, three episodes per season from 1985 to 1986, and four additional seasons on USA Network from 1988 to 1992. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel...
  
  , ep.#2.8) - Minerva Halliday
• 1989 : La Nuit de l'éclusier - Hélène Belloz
• 1989 : Pentimento - Maddeleine
• 1991 : Crimes et jardins (TV) - Suzanne
• 1992 : Les Cœurs brûlés (TV serial) - Julia
• 1997 : Les Héritiers (TV) - Zizi
• 1998 : Le Dernier Fils (TV) - Elisabeth Haas
• 1999 : La Nuit des hulottes (TV) - Rainette Leblanc
• 2000 : La Fidélité - Clélia's mother
• 2001 : Regina Coeli - Regina
• 2002 : La Source des Sarrazins (TV) - Rose
• 2002 : La Vérité sur Charlie (The Truth About Charlie) - mysterious woman in black

Discography

• 1956 : Fais-moi mal Johnny de Boris Vian
• 1964 : Magali Noël chante Boris Vian
• 1988 : Magali Noël chante Boris Vian (CD Jacques Canetti/Musidisc)
• 1989 : Regard sur Vian, with Stéphanie Noël, live in Beausobre
• 2002 : Magali Noël (CD Story Mercury)

External links

• Official site