{"id":592282,"date":"2026-04-18T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592282\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:13:08","slug":"downton-abbey-star-nathalie-baye-dead-at-77-after-dementia-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592282\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Downton Abbey’ Star Nathalie Baye Dead at 77 After Dementia Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathalie Baye
\n ‘Downton Abbey’ Star Dead at 77<\/p>\n

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\n April 18, 2026
\n 10:17 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

“Downton Abbey” star Nathalie Baye reportedly died Friday.<\/p>\n

She died in the evening at her home in Paris following a Lewy body dementia diagnosis, her family told French press agency, AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lewy body dementia is one of the most common forms of dementia, and symptoms include visual hallucinations, according to Alzheimers.gov<\/a>. It leads to problems with thinking, movement, behavior, and mood.<\/p>\n

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Nathalie played Madame de Montmirail in the 2022 film, “Downton Abbey: A New Era.” Her character is a longtime friend of Maggie Smith’s Violet Crawley.<\/p>\n

She is also known for her role in Steven Spielberg<\/a>‘s “Catch Me if You Can,” where she acted opposite Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>‘s as his character’s mother.<\/p>\n

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She landed her breakout role in 1973’s “Day For Night” and has more than 100 acting credits to her name, last playing H\u00e9l\u00e8ne in 2023’s romance\/drama film “Mother Valley.”<\/p>\n

She has 1 child, whom she shared with her ex, “French Elvis” Johnny Hallyday. Their daughter, Laura Smet, is also an actress.<\/p>\n

She was 77.<\/p>\n

RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathalie Baye ‘Downton Abbey’ Star Dead at 77 Published April 18, 2026 10:17 AM PDT “Downton Abbey” star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":{"0":"post-592282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}