Pradier was born in
Hanoi,
French Indochina. Two years after making her film début, in 1961, she was awarded the
Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as most promising new actress in France for her performance as "Amenita" in the
Sacha Guitry film, "
Stop Thief." That year she gained further recognition for her role as "Constance Bonacieux" in two films based on the Three Musketeers. Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in a number of films in her native France, then was contracted for
Hollywood productions that included the
Fred Zinnemann film
Behold a Pale Horse (1964) starring luminaries
Gregory Peck,
Anthony Quinn, and
Omar Sharif. She returned to English-language filming in the
Universal Studios thriller,
House of Cards (1968) with
Orson Welles and
George Peppard. In her long career, Perrette Pradier has also worked in live theatre, appearing in plays such as
La Bonne Addresse as well as the longest running French play ever produced,
Boeing Boeing. In 1994, she was the voice of "Sarafina" in the French version of the
Walt Disney Studios animated feature film,
The Lion King. ==Death==