Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

Known for: Acting

Born: November 2, 1912 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Died: December 10, 1996

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (née Vogel) was a French Resistance member in World War II as well as a photojournalist, deported to Auschwitz in 1943. She survived the war and became a Communist politician, elected to Parliament under the Fourth and Fifth Republic.