StatsBirth Name: Catherine Fabienne Dorléac Age: 68, born 22 October 1943 Born and residing in:  France, Metropolitan Height: 5' 6" Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
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Catherine Deneuve was born in Paris, France, the third of four daughters. Her mother, Renee Dorleac, is a retired stage actress. Her father, the late 'Maurice Dorleac', was also a stage actor. She made her movie debut as Catherine Dorleac in Les collégiennes (1957), but later took her mother's maiden name so she wouldn't be confused with her elder sister, Françoise Dorléac, who was also an actress. She continued to appear in minor films until she was given a meaty part in Vice and Virtue (196
Catherine Deneuve was born in Paris, France, the third of four daughters. Her mother, Renee Dorleac, is a retired stage actress. Her father, the late 'Maurice Dorleac', was also a stage actor. She made her movie debut as Catherine Dorleac in Les collégiennes (1957), but later took her mother's maiden name so she wouldn't be confused with her elder sister, Françoise Dorléac, who was also an actress. She continued to appear in minor films until she was given a meaty part 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 Les demoiselles de 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. Despite her stardom in France or perhaps because of it, she showed little interest in making American films aside from The April Fools (1969) and Hustle (1975). Deneuve's magnificent work in Truffaut's The Last Metro (1980) as a stage actress in Nazi-occupied Parisr, revived her career after a number of forgettable movies. Her third Hollywood strike came in 1983, when she starred in Tony Scott's modern vampire story The Hunger (1983), a cult classic where she and David Bowie played a stylish vampire couple living in Manhattan who set out in search of new blood and seduce Susan Sarandon. Her unchanging beauty was perfectly showcased in the epic drama Indochine (1992), as an upper-class plantation owner who falls in love with a French naval officer in 1930s Vietnam. Her controlled performance (perhaps the best of her career to date), she earned her first Academy Award Nominaton (Best Actress). She was also very good in the follow-up My Favorite Season (1993). After seeing the film Breaking the Waves (1996), she wrote a personal letter to director Lars von Trier, who cast her in Dancer in the Dark (2000) opposite eccentric singer Björk. Deneuve made another brief return to Hollywood a year later with a starring role in The Musketeer (2001), a France-based epic adventure. Now in her late fifties, she continues to work at a steady pace, notably and most recently in this year's musical 8 Women (2002). 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 Adjani, Juliette Binoche, and Marion Cotillard.
Currently residing in Paris, France.
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