Marthe Vinot (née Lagrange; 8 December 1894 – 13 July 1974) was a French actress whose film career began in the early years of silent film and lasted until the early 1920s.
Marthe Vinot was born Marthe Lagrange in Paris.
She was married to French film and stage actor Maurice Vinot who was killed in an aeroplane crash in 1916 during World War I whilst enlisted in the French military.
She then married actor and director Pierre Blanchar, with whom she had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar.
Her sister was fellow actress Louise Lagrange who married Maurice Tourneur.
She made a career in the early days of silent films and retired from the screen in 1924.
Her first film role was in the Louis Feuillade-directed film André Chénier in 1909 for Gaumont Film Company.
It would be the first of many collaborations with Feuillade.
Marthe Vinot died in Paris in 1974.
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