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- Birth nameMonique Bride-Etivant
- Rita Renoir was born on January 16, 1934 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Mafia Wants Blood (1970), Red Desert (1964) and Le futur aux trousses (1975). She died on May 4, 2016 in Paris, France.
- Former stripper, she was the star of the 'Crazy Horse Saloon' (the most famous burlesque theater in Paris).
- She was also a theater actress becoming later a director in avant-garde theater in France.
- Renoir was in 1967 the lead actress in Jean-Jacques Lebel's representation of the Pablo Picasso's drama Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue (Desire Caught by the Tail).
- It is her stage name that Catherine Ringer and Fred Chichin chose to name their group: Rita Mitsouko.
- In 1964 Renoir was chosen by Michelangelo Antonioni to play the role of Emilia in The Red Desert, and the following year she made her theatrical debut in René de Obaldia's Du vent dans les branches de sassafras, alongside Michel Simon.
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