French film star Nathalie Baye dies aged 77, media report

President Emmanuel Macron said France had "loved, dreamed and grown up" with the stalwart of French cinema.

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President Emmanuel Macron said the much-loved stalwart of French cinema had been "an actress with whom we loved, dreamed and grew up".

A four-time acting winner at the Césars - France's equivalent of the Oscars - Baye starred in some 80 films in her lifetime after breakout roles in the early 1970s.

Her family told the French news agency AFP she had died at her home in Paris on Friday evening from a form of dementia.

Born into a bohemian family of artists in Normandy in 1948, she began her career as a dancer before turning to acting.