Viviane Ventura (also Vivienne ~) is a British actress and socialite. Her youngest daughter is the British environmentalist Sheherazade Goldsmith. She was born on 5 December 1945 in London but spent her childhood in Bogotá, Colombia. In 1958 she returned to the UK, where she started her film career. Her film appearances included roles in Carry On Jack, High Wind in Jamaica, Finders Keepers and Battle Beneath the Earth. She has worked with actors who include Anthony Quinn, Cliff Richard, James Coburn, Joan Collins, Robert Vaughn and Wilfrid Hyde-White, with whom she appeared, in 1970, on the West End stage, in The Jockey Club Stakes, a comedy. She now lives in London in the United Kingdom. She is the author of two books April Fool, a novel, and Guide to Social Climbing (1983)
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