Haydée Politoff is a retired Russian-French[2] actress.[3]
Politoff moved to the United States in the late 1970s, retired from acting, and resided in California.[4]
"La Collectionneuse ended in Saint-Tropez. Just then the actress (Haydée Politoff) went to Italy and became a movie star for ten years and then married a British rock star and moved to San Francisco and may be living in America now, somewhere around Big Sur." — Patrick Bauchau[5]
^Davis, Melton S. (21 November 1971). "Rainier's formula". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 November 2020. Nor had half‐Russian, half-French Haydee Politoff, who is "La Collectionneuse," a girl who collects and discards men.
^"Events — 'La collectionneuse'". Alliance Fraçaise de Chicago. January 26, 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2020. We will be holding a Skype conversation with Haydée Politoff, the film's lead actress, after the screening
^Fowlie, David J. (26 November 2018). "Interview with RENDEZVOUS IN CHICAGO writer/director Michael Glover Smith". Keeping It Reel. Retrieved 7 November 2020. The Haydee Politoff scene was the last one I wrote, literally a month before we shot it. We lucked out that she happened to be coming to Chicago around the same time that we were shooting and she very graciously agreed to do a cameo.