Ysabelle Lacamp (7 November 1954 – 26 June 2023) was a French novelist, singer and actress. Ysabelle Lacamp was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 7 November 1954. She was the daughter of French journalist and writer Max Olivier-Lacamp (prix Renaudot 1969) and Pyong-You Hyun of Korean origin. Lacamp received a degree in Chinese and Korean from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and in Oriental languages from Paris. Lacamp started as an actress in 1975, first appearing in the cinema in the second part of the film Emmanuelle. She played notably in 1983 in Le Marginal by Jacques Deray with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Le Joli Cœur with Francis Perrin. On television, she appeared in episodes of the series Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret, Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and in 2002 in Fabio Montale, with Alain Delon. Throughout her roles, she was credited as Isabelle Olivier Lacamp, Isabelle Lacamp, Isabelle Olivier-Lacamp, and Isa Lacamp. She also practised in the dubbing of television series. In 1987, she released a 45 rpm entitled Baby Bop. Lacamp presented the cultural program Hors la ville on France 3 Limousin Poitou-Charentes for three years and for seven years co-organized the literary meetings of Ajaccio “Racines du ciel”. Lacamp is best known as a writer, publishing bestselling novels. She released her first novel in 1986, Le Baiser du dragon. Lacamp was a member of the jury for the Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Prize for autobiography. Lacamp died from cancer in Paris, on 26 June 2023, at the age of 68. In 2003, she won the Cabri d'or from the Académie cévenole. Source: Article "Ysabelle Lacamp" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.