She made her debut at age 15 in the titular role of a lovely and naive, yet enticing ballet dancer in the steamy soft-core.
She lived with her mother, brothers, and sister on a farm not far from Saint-Tropez in Provence southern France , because her father, singer and poet , did not want his children to be affected by the glamour world of Paris.
Born Irina Dziemiach, of Russian ancestry, in Pommeuse, Seine-et-Marne, she went to Paris and became a model.