Background
She is the only child of Jules Buck (1917–2001), an American film producer, who moved his family to Europe in 1952 in reaction to the political repression in the United States at the time. Her mother was Joyce Ruth Getz (aka Joyce Gates, died 1996), a model, actress, and interior designer. John Huston, for whom her father worked as a cameraman, was the best man at her parents' 1945 wedding. Her first language is French.
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