Roger Vadim was a French actor, director, writer, and producer who launched Brigitte Bardot's career in the film Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956) and also wrote several books.He was born Roger Vladimir Igorevich Plemyannikov, on January 26, 1928, in Paris, France. Although his father gave him the first name Vladimir, the French law then required a French first name. His father, Igor Nikolaevich Plemyannikov, was a Russian-Ukrainian aristocrat who was born in Kiev, and emigrated with the ...[Read Story]