Claude Jade (8 October, 1948 – 1 December, 2006) became famous playing Christine, Antoine Doinel’s girlfriend, in Francois Truffaut’s Baisers voles (Stolen Kisses, 1968), later repeating the role as his wife in Domicile conjugal (Bed and Board, 1970), and L’Amour en fuite (Love on the Run, 1979). Her subsequent career included a number of international productions such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz (1969).