Madeleine Rousset was born on January 8, 1922 in Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France as Madeleine Marie Jeanne Lucienne Rousset. She was an actress, known for Les malheurs de Sophie (1946), Marie-Antoinette reine de France (1956) and Gigi (1949). She died in August 1978 in Crete, Greece.