Sylvia Bataille

Sylvia Bataille, born Sylvia Maklès (1 November 1908 - 23 December 1993), was a French actress, born in Paris (where she also died) to a Jewish family. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she has a daughter in 1930, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille (still living). Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until 1946. Starting in 1938, she was a companion of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, with whom, in 1941 she had a daughter, Judith, today Judith Miller, also a psychoanalyst. Sylvia Bataille married Jacques Lacan in 1953.

A pupil of Charles Dullin, Sylvia Bataille's theatrical debuted was with the agit-prop troupe Group Octobre, directed by Jacques Prévert. Her film debut came in 1933, and in 1936 she played her most memorable role in Partie de campagne by Jean Renoir. Her final appearance was in 1950.