- From 1964 until 1968 she was the partner of actor Vittorio Gassman. They have a son, actor Alessandro Gassmann.
- Grandmother of Leo Gassman and mother-in-law of Sabrina Knaflitz.
- At the 10th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in the film The Fair.
- Her feature film debut was Les Cousins. The film's director and producer, Claude Chabrol, writes in his autobiography that he discovered her in an advertisement film for soap.
- She was a French actress., and appeared in more than 30 films and television shows between 1958 and 1978.
- Her parents' country house became the Allied headquarters during World War II.
- The daughter of French peasants, Mayniel grew up in an isolated village.
- She left the movie scene in the 80's. About twenty years ago she moved to to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
- Arriving from Bordeaux in Paris, she tried her hand at modeling and later appeared on the covers of various magazines.
- Juliette Meynell She was the daughter of a café owner in a small town in Aveyron, a French province in the Occitania region. During the Second World War, her parents moved to Bordeaux , where she spent her adolescence and where, in secondary school, she discovered the theater.
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