Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Fabienne Dorléac
1943 -
French born Paris

Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) . Catherine Deneuve was born in 1943, in Paris, France. Her parents were actors. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was a teenager, and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier part in Vice et la vertu, Le (1963). But her breakthrough came with the excellent musical Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les (1964), in which she gave an unforgettable performance as a romantic middle-class girl who falls in love with a young soldier, but gets imprisoned in a loveless marriage with another man; the director was the gifted Jacques Demy who also cast Deneuve in the less successful Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les (1967). She then played a schizophrenic killer in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and a married woman who works as a part-time prostitute every afternoon in Luis Buñuel's masterpiece Belle de jour (1967). She also worked with Buñuel in Tristana (1970) and gave a great performance for François Truffaut in Sirène du Mississipi, La (1969), a kind of apotheosis of her "frigid femme fatale" persona. In the seventies she didn't find parts of that caliber, but her magnificent work in Truffaut's Dernier métro, Le (1980), as a stage actress in Nazi-occupied Paris revived her career. She was also very good in the recent epic drama Indochine (1992), for which she earned her first Academy Award Nominaton (Best Actress). Although the elegant and always radiant Deneuve has never appeared on stage, she is universally hailed as one of the "grandes dames" of French cinema, joining a list that includes such illustrious talents as Simone Signoret, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert and the younger Juliette Binoche. Spouse David Bailey (19 August 1965 - 1972) (divorced).

Persepolis (2007) , Héros de la famille, Le (2006) , Concile de Pierre, Le (2006) , Palais royal! (2005) , Temps qui changent, Les (2004), Rois et reine (2004) , Princesse Marie (2004) ,Um Filme Falado (2003) , "Liaisons dangereuses, Les" (2003) , Au plus près du paradis (2002) , 8 femmes (2002) , Petit poucet, Le (2001) , The Musketeer (2001) , Absolument fabuleux (2001) , Je rentre à la maison (2001) , Dancer in the Dark (2000) , Est - Ouest (1999) , Temps retrouvé, Le (1999) , Pola X (1999) , Belle maman (1999) , Vent de la nuit, Le (1999) , Place Vendôme (1998) , Sans titre (1997) , Généalogies d'un crime (1997), Court toujours: L'inconnu (1996) , Voleurs, Les (1996), Convento, O (1995), "¿Qué apostamos?" (1995) , Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, Les (1995), Partie d'échecs, La (1994) , Ma saison préférée (1993) , Indochine (1992) , Reine blanche, La (1991) , Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre (1988) , Fréquence meurtre (1988) , Agent trouble (1987) , Lieu du crime, Le (1986) , Paroles et musique (1984) , Fort Saganne (1984) , Bon plaisir, Le (1984) , The Hunger (1983) , Africain, L' (1983) , Choc, Le (1982) , Hôtel des Amériques (1981) , Choix des armes, Le (1981) , Je vous aime (1980) , Dernier métro, Le (1980) , Courage fuyons (1979) , À nous deux (1979) , Ils sont grands, ces petits (1979) , Écoute voir... (1979) , Argent des autres, L' (1978) , Casotto (1977) , March or Die (1977) , Anima persa (1977) , Si c'était à refaire (1976) , Hustle (1975) , Sauvage, Le (1975), Agression, L' (1975) , Fatti di gente per bene (1975) , Zig zig (1975) , Femme aux bottes rouges, La (1974) , Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974) , Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune, L' (1973) , Un flic (1972) , Liza (1972) , Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres (1971) , Peau d'âne (1970) , Tristana (1970) , Tout peut arriver (1969) , Sirène du Mississipi, La (1969) , The April Fools (1969) , Mayerling (1968) , Manon 70 (1968) , Chamade, La (1968) , Benjamin (1968) , Belle de jour (1967) , emoiselles de Rochefort, Les (1967) , Créatures, Les (1966) , Vie de château, La (1966) , Chant du monde, Le (1965) , Liebeskarussell, Das (1965), Petits chats, Les (1965) , Repulsion (1965) , Un monsieur de compagnie (1965) , Chasse à l'homme, La (1964) , Plus belles escroqueries du monde, Les (1964) , Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les (1964) , Costanza della ragione, La (1964) , Vacances portugaises (1963) , Vice et la vertu, Le (1963) , Dossier 1413 (1962) , Parisiennes, Les (1962) , Et satan conduit le bal (1962) , Homme à femmes, L' (1960) , Portes claquent, Les (1960) , Collégiennes, Les (1957)