Marianne James, singer and media actress. (Photo courtesy of the actress)
The audience is known to be impassive, even icy. Amid tailored tuxedos and draped long gowns, Marianne James stands out in a black T-shirt and denim overalls. The actress takes the stage at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées shortly after 11 p.m. on May 3, 1999, to receive the first (and so far only) Molière of her career from the hands of Catherine Jacob and Michel Leeb.At the time, the public is still unfamiliar with her world and applauds timidly, out of mere politeness. “Receiving the award for best show was my revenge, my finest response to an industry that didn’t want me,” says the woman behind the character of Maria Ulrika Von Glott.Before embodying the intensely sharp character of a treacherous German diva, “I was accepted nowhere, I swallowed rejections like knife wounds in my flesh,” the now-sixty-something actress reveals with a...
The audience is known to be impassive, even icy. Amid tailored tuxedos and draped long gowns, Marianne James stands out in a black T-shirt and denim overalls. The actress takes the stage at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées shortly after 11 p.m. on May 3, 1999, to receive the first (and so far only) Molière of her career from the hands of Catherine Jacob and Michel Leeb.At the time, the public is still unfamiliar with her world and applauds timidly, out of mere politeness. “Receiving the award for best show was my revenge, my finest response to an industry that didn’t want me,” says the woman behind the character of Maria Ulrika Von Glott.Before embodying the intensely sharp character of a treacherous German diva, “I was accepted nowhere, I swallowed rejections like knife wounds in my flesh,” the now-sixty-something actress...
