Actress catherine deneuve biography

Catherine Deneuve (born 22 October 1943) is a French actress. She is the daughter of two well-known actors. She has two sisters; Françoise Dorléac (1942-1967) and Sylvie (born 1946), also both actresses, the former was killed in a car accident. She has a maternal half-sister, Danielle (born 1937).

She began acting on movies as a teenager. Her first major role is in Jacques Demy's 1964 movie Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. She has since then worked with some of the greatest movie directors, notably Roman Polanski's in Repulsion (1965), and Luis Buñuel's in Belle de Jour (1967) and Tristana (1970) and François Truffaut's in Le Dernier Métro (1982). She made a commercial for the perfumeChanel No 5. She is a close friend of fashion designerYves Saint Laurent.

She married BritishphotographerDavid Bailey from 1965 to 1972. She has had relationships with movie director Roger Vadim (1928-2000), with whom she had a son, Christian Vadim (born 1963), and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996), with whom she had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni (born 1972). Both her children are actors.

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Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (,,French:[katʁindənœv]), is a French actress. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

Deneuve made her screen debut in 1957 at age 13, in a film shot the previous year when she was only 12. A major figure of the New Wave, she became, like Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon, one of the best-known French artists in the world. In a career spanning nearly 70 years, she has played more than a hundred roles and is recognized in France and internationally for being one of the key faces of the musical film genre with appearances in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort,Donkey Skin, 8 Women and The Beloved. Early in her career, she gained acclaim for her portrayals of aloof and mysterious beauties while working for well-known directors such as Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Roman Polanski, and Agnès Varda. She played in films attracting a total of nearly 99 million spectators in theaters, making her the working actress with the most admissions in France. In 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, France's national symbol of liberty.

She has received numerous accolades over her career including two César Awards and the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actress as well as nominations for an Academy Award and BAFTA Award. She has received honorary awards, including the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear in 1998, the Cannes Film Festival's Honorary

Catherine Deneuve was one of the leading ladies of the new wave of European cinema. She made her first big mark when she starred in Jacque Demy’s 1964 musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. She went on to perform in several other Demy films and also the works of directors such as Luis Bunuel, Roman Polanski, and Francois Truffaut.

But those heady days were in front of her when LIFE’s Loomis Dean photographed Deneuve in 1961. At that point, even though this child of stage actors had been appearing in movies since she was 12, she was identified in the LIFE archival captions as “fashion model Catherine Deveuve.” (Though to be fair, Deneuve is known as a style icon as well as an actress).

Deneuve, who was born in Paris on October 22, 1943, would have been around 18 years old when she posed for Dean. Her hair was dark then, and when she appeared in LIFE’s April 3, 1962 issue, in a story headlined ‘Windfall of New Beauties,” about a new crop of young European actresses. (The photo of Deneuve which ran in that story was not from the Dean shoot but by noted glamour photographer Peter Basch). Deneuve was one of five young actresses featured in that story, along with another future star, Claudia Cardinale.

LIFE’s terse write-up about the young actress was: “France’s Catherine Deneuve, 18, is the fawnlake protege of director Roger Vadim, who made a star of Bardot. Direct in manner, haughty offstage but appealing in her roles, she excels in portraying adolescents emerging into womanhood.”

It was at the urging of Vadim, who also fathered a child with Deneuve, that she later dyed her hair blonde. She was blonde in her most memorable films, including Bunuel’s Belle de Jour (1967), in which Deneuve played a bored housewife who filled her afternoons by working as a prostitute.

Deneuve is often written about as appearing cool and aloof, which is

Chronology and awards

October 22, 1943
Catherine Dorléac is born (her parents are actors, she has three sisters); father Maurice Teynac ; mother Renée Deneuve.

1961
She meets Roger Vadim (director of And God created Woman, he was married to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda). She's minor and not married.

June 18, 1963
Birth of son Christian Vadim.

1965
Wedding with David Bailey (Art Photographer)

1967
Fatal car crash on the french riviera: her sister, actress Françoise Dorléac dies.

1968
Deneuve is hurted by a big ice rock falling from a roof

1969
Best actress nomination at the British Awards (Belle de jour)

1971
Deneuve falls in love with famous italian actor Marcello Mastroïanni (La Dolce Vita)

1972
Official divorce from David Bailey

May 28, 1972
Birth of daughter Chiara Mastroïanni

1975
Friendly separation from Marcello Mastroïanni

1976
1st César nomination (Le Sauvage).

1980
Album with musician-artist Serge Gainsbourg (Dieu est un fumeur de Havanes)

1981
She wins her first Cesar (The Last Metro)

1982
3rd César nomination (Hôtel des Amériques).

1984-1991 (?)
She meets Pierre Lescure (Canal + Pay TV tycoon and now Vivendi Universal VP)

1987
She gives the Golden Palm at Cannes (Maurice Pialat)

1988
4th César nomination (Agent trouble).

1989
5th César nomination (Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre).

1993
She wins her second Cesar, garners Oscar and Golden Globe nominations (Indochine)
Best actress at the Women in Film Crystal Awards

1994
7th César nomination (Ma saison préférée).
She is vice-president of the International Film Festival of Cannes with American Clint Eastwood

1995
She is honnored at San Sebastian (Spain