Dora Doll was a French actress born as Dorothea Hermina Feinberg on May 19, 1922. She made her screen debut in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon in 1949, playing the role of Juliette.
Throughout her career, Dora Doll appeared in various films and television shows. She played Lola in Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi in 1954 and Genisse in Jean Renoir's French Cancan in 1955.
In 1976, she took on the role of Suzy in the French television series Hôtel Baltimore. The following year, she appeared in Fred Zinnemann's Julia as a woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman and Julia.
In 1982, Dora Doll played a role in Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes. In the late 1990s, she starred as the grandmother Louise Chantreuil in the television series Tide of Life.
In her personal life, Dora Doll was married twice. Her first husband was the actor Raymond Pellegrin, with whom she had a daughter named Danielle. She later married François Deguelt.
Dora Doll received numerous awards and honors for her work. In 1993, she was awarded the Prix "Reconnaissance des cinéphiles" from Puget-Théniers in recognition of her life's work. She was also made a Knight of France's National Order of Merit in 2000.
Sadly, Dora Doll passed away on November 15, 2015, at the age of 93, at her home in Gard, France.
