- Born
- Birth nameCatherine Fabienne Dorléac
- Nickname
- Cath
- Height5′ 5¾″ (1.67 m)
- Catherine Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was barely a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier role in Vice and Virtue (1963). Her breakthrough came with the excellent musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (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 The Young Girls of Rochefort (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 Mississippi Mermaid (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 The Last Metro (1980) as a stage actress in Nazi-occupied Paris revived her career. She was also very good in the epic drama Indochine (1992), for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination (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, Isabelle Adjani and the younger Juliette Binoche.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Thanassis Agathos<thanaga@hol.gr
- SpouseDavid Bailey(August 18, 1965 - January 6, 1970) (divorced)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesDaniele Clariond Tappou(Half Sibling)Sylvie Dorléac(Sibling)Françoise Dorléac(Sibling)Anna Biolay(Grandchild)Delphine Cantelli(Niece or Nephew)Milo Thoretton(Grandchild)
- Long, thick mane of blonde hair and an ever-present cigarette in her hand
- Often co-stars with Gérard Depardieu
- Has never performed onstage due to stage fright.
- Was once fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent's muse, who dressed her for the films Belle de Jour (1967), Heartbeat (1968), Mississippi Mermaid (1969), A Cop (1972), and The Hunger (1983).
- Has a daughter by Marcello Mastroianni: Chiara Mastroianni (b. 28 May 1972).
- Used hypnotherapy to quit three-packs-a-day smoking habit in 1985. Started again in 1996. Unsuccessfully tried switching to electronic cigarette in 2014. She quit again following a November 2019 stroke.
- Turned down the role of Bond girl Tracy DiVicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), which went to Diana Rigg.
- People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.
- I'm lucky. I'm getting older with some directors who are getting older.
- I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
- To work is a noble art.
- A star remains pinned on a wall in the public imagination.
- On My Way (2013) - €300 000
- Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia (2012) - €300 000
- Beloved (2011) - €300,000
- His Mother's Eyes (2011) - €300,000
- The Big Picture (2012) - €250,000
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