- Had a long and distinguished career on stage and was nominated for the Molière Award (the French equivalent of the Tony Award) in 1996 for her role in "Colombe".
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964
- Winner of the 1980 "Prix de la meilleure comédienne du syndicat de la critique" for her role in "Les Larmes amères de Petra von Kant" at the Théâtre national de Chaillot in Paris.
- Starring in "Les Grandes Forêts" on stage at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. (2009)
- Billy Wilder cast her as the mysterious villain in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), her best known role because the character she played used her sex appeal to manipulate Holmes.
- She was born to a family of aesthetes, like Jacques Bonjean, who collected art from 17 century France, her mother Germaine (born Lipman) Bonjean, and her godfather Christian Dior.
- At the age of twelve, Page read some works by Voltaire, and to her mother's surprise, her father replied "If she can't read Voltaire, she can't read anyone." Despite this, she was a very talented young girl, playing Musset at Théâtre National Populaire and entering the Conservatory.
- Her film début was in Pas de pitié pour les femmes (1951), followed by Fanfan la Tulipe (1952), in which she played Madame de Pompadour alongside Gérard Philipe and Gina Lollobrigida. Since then, she has appeared in Italian, French, British and American films. She co-starred with Robert Mitchum and Ingrid Thulin in Foreign Intrigue (1956), Dirk Bogarde and Capucine in Song Without End (1960), Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in El Cid (1961), and was seen in Grand Prix (1966) with James Garner and Belle de Jour (1967), with Catherine Deneuve and directed by Luis Buñuel.
- She is the daughter of French art collector Jacques Paul Bonjean (1899-1990).
- She acted in 1943 in Le Soulier de Satin and in Oh! Le Beaux Jours, both of which were directed by Jean-Louis Barrault Madeleine Renaud Co. Her theater career continued in the 1980s and 1990s, with Les larmes amères de Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) (1980), Lan nuit de rois (Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare), La femme sur le lit (The Woman on the Bed, Franco Brusati) 1994, Delicate Balance (1998).
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