Dominique Vincent
Acting
Biography
Dominique Vincent (born in 1951) is a French actress whose career unfolded mainly on television throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She first appeared as a child in Le Procès de Sainte-Thérèse de l’Enfant Jésus (1961) and went on to play several notable roles in literary and historical adaptations. She portrayed Goneril in King Lear (1965), Madame Du Plessis in Roberto Rossellini’s The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966), Jane in The Invention of Morel (1967), and Hester Prynne in Marcel Cravenne’s The Scarlet Letter (1977).
Known For
Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a large abandoned villa. One day, a group of people from another time, come in. The villa and the nature around become the theater of strange phenomena…
The Invention of Morel
Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.
Il prigioniero del re
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.