Simone Veil
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday13 July 1927
Died30 June 2017 (age 89)
Place of birthNice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Known credits12
Biography
Simone Veil Grand-croix DBE (née Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing women's rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized abortion, today known as Veil Act (French: Loi Veil). From 1998 to 2007, she was a member of the Constitutional Council, France’s highest legal authority. A Holocaust survivor, of both Auschwitz-Birkenau and …
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
2024 · Self (voice) (archive sound) - Magistrate
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 · Self (archive footage)
1974, l'alternance Giscard
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Simone Veil, album de famille
2018 · Self
Once in a Lifetime
2014 · Self (archive footge)
Infrarouge
2006 · Self
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
Zone interdite
1993 · Self
Bains de Minuit
1987 · Self - Guest
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
L'Heure de vérité
1982 · self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
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