Three days ago I featured an actress from Moonraker who played the genetically superior woman of her race assigned to help repopulate the earth with perfect humans. I thought I'd stay on that topic of to feature the actress who played the the genetically superior woman of her race.
Nicaise Jean-Louis is a native of the French island of Guadeloupe in the West Indies who was discovered by french fashion designer Marie-Louise Carven. Obviously stunned by her perfect looks, Madame Carven offered her a chance to model in Paris - which Ms. Jean-Louis accepted.
She immediately became one of the top models of color in Paris in the seventies, appearing in fashion shows for just about every famous fashion designer in town. And it inevitable led to a movie career . . . but primarily in France.
She's best known for her role as Yo Macumba in the 1982 French comedy Le gendarme et les gendarmettes, about four female police students who turn out to be superior to their teachers . . . and get their abilities tested when they get kidnapped. But Ms. Jean-Louis has also done several other movies, and she's even done theater as well.
Ms. Jean-Louis has remained active as an actress and, as the recent photo above clearly demonstrates, a model, having even accompanied her model daughter on the catwalk for Burberry's. Four decades after gaining notoriety by appearing in a Bond movie, Nicaise Jean-Louis endures.
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