Her character, Huguette, formed the funniest of old couples with Gérard Hernandez as Raymond in “Household scenes”, on M 6. Actress Marion Game died Thursday at the age of 84, after a long career in the theater , on television and in the cinema, announced his daughter this Friday.
In 2021, on the occasion of the release of his memoirs, “How is your name already? “, this actress with red hair and a sparkling personality had received the Parisian at her home, in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine), in a small house with a garden. “I lived through very violent things”, she confided to us then, the one who had played many other roles than that of Huguette for half a century, from the time of “At the theater tonight” to the films by Michel Audiard.
She died late Thursday afternoon at her home in the Paris region, said her daughter, Virginie Ledieu, also an actress. “It is in the tenderness and affection of her family that she left to join the stars,” she told AFP. Launched in 2009, “Household Scenes” tells the daily life of couples of different generations through short sketches. It gathered some evenings up to 5 million viewers.
A rich career
Marion Game played the role of Huguette, who constantly bickered with her husband Raymond, played by another very popular figure of the 70s/80s, the mustachioed Gérard Hernandez. In the cinema, we have seen it in particular in “Le Cri du cormoran le soir sur les jonques” by Michel Audiard (1971) or “Parking” by Jacques Demy (1985).
On TV, she played among others in “Les Brigades du Tigre” (1975), “Nana” (1981) or, more recently, “Plus belle la vie” (2010-2012). She was also active in dubbing, and had among other things been the French voice of the character of Phyllis Van de Kamp, Bree’s stepmother, in the American series “Desperate Housewives”.
Marion Game regularly appeared in ultra-popular TV games of the 70s and 80s, “Les Jeux de 20 heures” on FR3 and “L’académie des neuf” on Antenne 2.