French actress and singer Pascale Audret appeared in two spy films: the ealry French effort A Touch of Treason (61) and the George Ardisson vehicle Countdown to Doomsday (66), in which she made an impression as an interpol agent working alongside the pipe-smoking Harald Leipnitz.
Despite only briefly flirting with the genre, she was an extremely busy performer, appearing in well over 50 films and TV productions between 1954 and 1999. For a short while in the late 50s / early 60s, it looks as though she was set to become a big name – there was a starring role opposite Orson Welles and Jack Hawkins in La Fayette (61) and she was the protagonist in Franju’s Spotlight on a Murderer (61) – but her career never really took off. Partially, this was because she never appears to have starred in many international productions, apart from Caracas amd a couple of others, which makes me wonder if she never learnt English or was unhappy with venturing too far out of France?
She died in a car crash in 2000, leaving behind a daughter, Julie Dreyfus, who has become a star in her own right.
There’s an homage to her up on YouTube