The actress and model known for her melancholic music and timeless beauty, who mesmerized audiences around the world since the 1960s, has died at 80 years old. Her son Thomas Dutronc announced her death on Instagram on June 11, writing “Maman est party.”
Hardy had been fighting lymphoma and throat cancer since being diagnosed in 2004, a period of approximately twenty (20) years.This led to more health deterioration.
In France and several other countries, she topped the music charts with “Tous les garçons et les filles” in 1962. She had another number one single in France the following year with “C’est à l’amour aquelon je pense”.
According to his last album issued in 2018, Hardy’s career was characterize by almost a dozen of French Top Ten singles actress during this period of time.
Belgium, Germany as well as Canada are Hardy’s music hotspots. Nevertheless, she wasn’t commercially successful in America where Rolling Stone magazine placed her at number 162 on its roster of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time in its issue no. 1523.
On January 17th, 1944 amidst air raids in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Therefore, while growing up mostly with her mother throughout that romance-filled cityshe managed to strike the perfect balance between acting and musical careers. As such actress American viewers may recognize her from John Frankenheimer. She co-starred alongside James Garner and Eva Marie Saint in Grand Prix which is road racing drama. It won three Oscars for sound, sound effects and editing
Hardy began writing and produced great numbers of novels as well as non-fiction books before he passed on. Additionally, she worked as model making an impact on designers like Yves Saint Laurent.
