Name: Roger Vadim Plemiannikov
Birthdate: 28 January 1928

As a director Vadim was known for his sensual and sometimes avant-garde films; offscreen he was known for his sensual and sometimes avant-garde lifestyle. He was married five times in all: to actresses Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Marie-Christine Barrault and Annette Stroyberg and to heiress Catherine Schneider. (He was married to Barrault when he died.) Vadim had one child each with Fonda, Stroyberg and Schneider and a fourth child with actress Catherine Deneuve. His best-known film is And God Created Woman (1956), which introduced the innocently voluptuous Bardot