^ White, Barbara Ehrlich (November 7, 2017).In 1916, she recited Saint-Georges de Bouhélier's Ode to Our Friends in the United States, at an event in the Sorbonne. The episode was incorporated into Renoir's 1937 film, La Grande Illusion. During World War I, she traveled to a military hospital to tell the wounded Jean Renoir of his mother Aline Charigot's death, and caused an uproar with her short dress and cropped hair. Her father-in-law, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted her portrait in 1914. Sergine appeared in several silent films, including Mary Stuart (1908), The Great Breach (1909), Pygmalion (1910), L'écharpe (1911), Moderne Galathée (1911), Les deux gosses (1912, 1916), Pro Patria (1914), Le médecin des enfants (1916), and Le geste (1917). Critic André Germain counted her as one of the 'three best actresses in Paris' in 1921, alongside Berthe Bady and Ève Francis. She appeared in Une lâche (1907) with Albert Dieudonné, Le Grand Soir (1908), The Children's Cardinal, L'Aiglon, and Racine's Phedre. She trained as an actress at the Conservatoire de Paris, and won a first prize while there, for Tragedy. Her father worked at the Ministry of Justice and Religion. Marie Marguerite Aimée Roche was born in Paris. She was married to actor Pierre Renoir and was the mother of cinematographer Claude Renoir.

Véra Sergine (born Marie Marguerite Aimée Roche Aug– August 19, 1946) was a French actress (though her stage name meant she was often described as Russian).

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