Catherine Deneuve

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Birth Name: Catherine Fabienne Dorléac

Age: 82, born 22 October 1943

Country of origin: France

Currently Residing In: France

Height: 5' 4"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: David Bailey

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Description: Catherine Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac on October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. Deneuve is a French actress and model. Deneuve gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion and Belle de jour. Deneuve's parents were actors. She made her movie debut at age 13 in The Twilight Girls (1957) and continued with small parts in minor films. 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 wit Catherine Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac on October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. Deneuve is a French actress and model. Deneuve gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion and Belle de jour. Deneuve's parents were actors. She made her movie debut at age 13 in The Twilight Girls (1957) and continued with small parts in minor films. 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 recent 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, and the younger Juliette Binoche.

Deneuve has been married once, to photographer David Bailey from 1965 to 1972,[11] though they separated in 1967. Deneuve has two children: actor Christian Vadim (born 18 June 1963), from her relationship with Roger Vadim, and actress Chiara Mastroianni (born 28 May 1972), from her relationship with Marcello Mastroianni.

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