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\n\tNathalie Baye, a French actress known for her roles within the film Downton Abbey: A Recent Era<\/em> and Catch Me If You Can,<\/em> has died. She was 77.<\/p>\n \n\tBaye died on Friday at her home in Paris from complications of Lewy body dementia, her family told the Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n \n\tBorn on July 6, 1948, in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy, Baye began her profession within the Seventies, appearing in greater than 80 movies. She graduated from France\u2019s Conservatoire national sup\u00e9rieur d\u2019art dramatique (National Academy of Dramatic Arts) in 1972. Baye made her film debut that very same yr in Robert Smart\u2019s Two People<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tShe later appeared in movies comparable to Truffaut\u2019s Day for Night, The Man Who Loved Women<\/em>, The Green Room<\/em>, Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s Every Man for Himself<\/em>, Detective<\/em>, Le Retour de Martin Guerre<\/em> and Steven Spielberg\u2019s Oscar-winning Catch Me If You Can<\/em>, where she played the mother of Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s Frank Abagnale Jr. and opposite Tom Hanks.<\/p>\n \n\tHer work has also been recognized critically, as she\u2019s a ten-time\u00a0nominee of the distinguished C\u00e9sar Awards and four-time winner. She won for\u00a0Every Man for Himself<\/em>\u00a0(1980),\u00a0Strange Affair<\/em>\u00a0(1981),\u00a0La Balance<\/em>\u00a0(1982) and\u00a0The Young Lieutenant<\/em>\u00a0(2005). In 2022, she appeared within the movie Downton Abbey: A Recent Era<\/em>, where she shared the screen with Maggie Smith in certainly one of her final film roles, before she died in 2024.\u00a0Mother Valley<\/em> (2023) was Baye\u2019s last film role. <\/p>\n \n\tShe shared one daughter, Laura Smet, who can also be an actress with the late French singer Johnny Hallyday. Baye and Laura starred together in a 2015 episode of Call My Agent! <\/em>Laura has booked a component within the upcoming fourth season of HBO\u2019s The White Lotus.<\/em><\/p>\n