Corinne Cléry

Cléry was born Corinne Marie-Madeleine Geneviève Pierrette Picolo^[1] on 23 March 1950 near Paris, and raised in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.^[2] She began her acting career in the late 1960s under the name Corinne Piccoli. Her first important film was Joël Le Moigne's Les Poneyttes with Johnny Hallyday and DJ Hubert Wayaffe, whom she married at the end of the filming, aged 17.^[3] From 1974 to 1976, she was a spokesperson for René Briand brandy.

Cléry first came to prominence in the movie Story of O (1975) (Histoire d'O). She also modelled for the cover of French magazine Lui in which she is holding a huge copy of the novel upon which the film is based.

Cléry is also known for playing Bond girl Corinne Dufour, antagonist Hugo Drax's assistant, in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. She also starred with Bond girl Barbara Bach (who played Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me) and Richard Kiel (who played Bond villain Jaws) in the film The Humanoid (1979). Following Moonraker, she appeared in several Italian language films. She also starred in the films Covert Action, Hitch Hike with actor David Hess, Sergio Corbucci's The Con Artists with Adriano Celentano and Anthony Quinn, and the science fiction film Yor, the Hunter from the Future.

Cléry became a housemate in the second season of Grande Fratello VIP, the Italian adaptation of Celebrity Big Brother. In 2023, she participated in the 17th season of the reality show L'isola dei famosi, and was eliminated after 7 weeks.

Cléry married radio personality Hubert Wayaffe [fr] in 1967, when she was 17-years-old. The two had a son, Alexandre. The couple later divorced.^[4]

In 2004, Cléry married Italian businessman Giuseppe Ercole, who had previously been married to Serena Grandi. They remained together until Ercole's death in 2010. From 2017 to 2018, she was in a relationship with actor Angelo Costabile.^[5]

She considers herself an atheist.^[6]