Josette Andriot
actress
- Birth name:
- Camille Élisa Andriot
- Born:
- 1886-08-23, Paris, France
- Died:
- 1942-05-13, Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
A Paris sunrise on 23 August 1886 delivered Josette Andriot to the world, and by 1913 the city’s flickering screens were already echoing her name. That single whirlwind year cast her as the cunning spy Protéa, a princess caught in What the Gods Decree, and the first tantalizing steps opposite the masked criminal Zigomar in The Black Scourge—three roles that fixed her forever in the frantic birth pangs of French cinema. Nearly three decades later, on 13 May 1942, the Mediterranean waves off Antibes closed gently over her final breath, but the bright, darting image of the woman who once outwitted emperors and detectives still races through the reels.
