Actress Lisa Bourdain has died at the age of 99.

French actress Lise Bourdin died at the age of 99, just two days before her centenary. She died on November 28 at her home in Labastide-d'Armagnac. This was reported by THR TV channel.

"Lise Bourdain, the leading French model of the 1940s and 50s, who became an actress and starred alongside Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier in Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon, has died at the age of 99," the article says.

Bourdain was born on November 30, 1925 in Nerys-les-Bains, France. She began her career as a model, and in the 1950s she actively switched to cinema. The actress, with brown hair and blue eyes, starred in famous films such as "The Girl from the River" (1954), where she worked with Sophia Loren, and "It Happens in Rome" (1955), with Linda Darnell and Vittorio De Sica.

In 1957, she played the role of a fashion magazine editor suffering a nervous breakdown in the film Shameless Dismissal, starring alongside Eddie Konstantin.

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