Nadine Lhopitalier was born in
Saint-Quentin,
Aisne, France. She never met her father. At 14 years-old, she left her mother's house and worked in a
Peugeot factory. 2 years later, at 16, she became the model of the painter
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, a socialite who opened the door for her to the worlds of theater and film. In 1952, she began her acting career under the pseudonym of
Nadine Tallier and played various roles from 1952 to 1964. In 1958, she started a romantic relationship with Lance Callingham, the son of British socialite
Norah Docker. In 1962, two years before ending her career in film, she married
Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild of the
French branch of the
Rothschild family. At the time, Edmond was chairman and principal owner of the
Edmond de Rothschild Group, a private banking group headquartered in
Geneva, Switzerland. Although she was raised
Roman Catholic, she converted to
Judaism stating: "It would not have been possible to have the name Rothschild and be a Catholic... Nor would it be right for the son of a Rothschild to be half-Jewish and half-Catholic." They had one son born in 1963,
Benjamin de Rothschild (1963-2021), shortly after their marriage. Following her husband's death in 1997,
David Rockefeller proposed to her but she refused. In 2004, she opened the Nadine de Rothschild International Way of Life Academy in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2025, one of her lawsuit against her daughter-in-law
Ariane was dismissed and she can therefore no longer access the
Chateau de Pregny where she used to live with her husband until his death in 1997. == Filmography ==