{"id":537812,"date":"2026-04-18T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537812\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:30:08","slug":"french-film-star-nathalie-baye-dies-aged-77-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537812\/","title":{"rendered":"French film star Nathalie Baye dies aged 77, media report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Away from acting, French media reported that Baye publicly supported action to tackle climate change and reform French assisted dying legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paying tribute on Saturday, Macron wrote on X: &#8220;We loved Nathalie Baye so much. With her voice, her smile and her grace, she has been a constant presence in French cinema over the past few decades, from Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut to Tonie Marshall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was an actress with whom we loved, dreamed and grew up. Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Culture Minister Catherine P\u00e9gard told AFP that Baye had &#8220;lit up a long chapter in the history of French cinema with her talent and radiant personality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her family said she had died following a diagnosis of Lewy body dementia, a neurodegenerative disease, AFP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Away from acting, French media reported that Baye publicly supported action to tackle climate change and reform French&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-537812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}