Biography of Catherine Deneuve
When you say or think. Femme fatale
October 22, 1943Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, famous only with his mother's name and better known as Catherine Deneuve, was born on 22 October 1943, in the French capital, Paris. Internationally acclaimed actress, then presenter of television programmes, was one of the most beloved women by the general public between the years ' 60 and ' 70, thanks to its beauty. It is also a popular singer in addition to Unesco Ambassador. Catherine was born and raised in a family of art, where the film and the acting are the favorite Arts from all of its components. Her father is the acclaimed actor Maurice Dorléac, known to the public primarily as m. Teynac, and her mother, also an actress, Renée Deneuve. Catherine is the third of four daughters, all stars: François, Sylvie and Danielle, which retain all the paternal surname.
The young and ambitious Catherine has since undergone some contrasts with the sisters, especially with the eldest, François, who died prematurely at the age of 24 years old in a car accident in 1967. To differ from others three though almost immediately takes the mother's surname, Deneuve. The debut comes soon. When just a teenager at the age of thirteen, the small and talented Catherine Deneuve made his debut in the film "The College", by André Hunebelle, dated 1956. It is the beginning of a brilliant career, but takes off alone in the next decade. The film of ' 56, in fact, followed by small roles in mediocre movies. To change personal and artistic life of young Catherine is Director Roger Vadim, who soon makes its knowledge falls madly in love with her.
It is he who impose it as a new female icon of the French cinema of the years ' 60. After having admired in "Les Parisiennes", directed by Marc Allégret, in 1961, and "hot love" of Grisha m. Dabat, a year later, Vadim wants it in sensuous film "Vice and virtue". The next year, then, exactly on 18 June 1963, in confirmation of their passion in bloom, the two have a son, the actor Christian Vadim. Meanwhile, Deneuve continues to play the role of femme fatale, as in the 1963 film, "Anthology", by Pierre Kast. The year is also important for the portion covered in episodic film titled "the most beautiful fraud in the world". A year later, accompanied by the great Jean-Paul Belmondo in the comedy "male" while hunting in 1965 came the meeting with the American Director Roman Polanski, signing the Fort and at times outrageous movie titled "Repulsion." Catherine Deneuve leaves Vadim and marries his new flame, the photographer and Director David Bailey. The two get married in wedding on August 19, 1965. Unfortunately, the two are unable to be happy and after a few years, as early as 1972, divorced. The actress and it ties into a strong friendship with the great actor Philippe Noiret, who works in the movie "l'armata on sofa", dated 1965. A year later knows Michel Piccoli, in "Les creatures", who finds himself in the musical "Josephine", 1966, with actor Gene Kelly.
These are the most successful years for Deneuve that reaches the peak of his art and popularity when the filmmaker Luis Bunuel the crop on the scandalous "Bella di giorno" in 1967, which became a cult film of genere and sees her play the role of a bored, bourgeois for three hours, turns his house into a whorehouse. Her performance, according to Premiere Magazine, is included among the hundred best ever in international cinema. Even beyond the notice of her talent. And the lovely Catherine goes to support the beautiful Ava Gardner and James Mason actor English film "Mayerling," dated 1968. A year later he began a new relationship by fire, so that professional father of loving nouvelle vagueDirector François Truffaut. These wants it with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the movie "my drug is called Julie", in 1969.
Despite his marriage to Bailey, who in this period begins to break up, love blossoms between the two artists and when Deneuve interrupts the relationship, Truffaut feeling the pinch, falling victim to a nervous breakdown. Finally comes the call from Hollywood. The movie that leads Catherine Deneuve in theaters is "I feel that something is happening to me", dated 1969, which starred Jack Lemmon. A few years later, in 1975, with two great actors of cinema stars and stripes, Ernest Borgnine and Burt Reynolds in the film "an extremely dangerous". However, the actress, halfheartedly American productions of roles that the hold true, decides to return to Europe. Italy is now the second homeland of the French artist. In 1972, in fact, on the set of "the bitch", by Marco Ferreri, meet the actor Marcello Mastroianni and falls in love with her totally. Divorced from Bailey the Deneuve gives birth to 28 May 1972 the daughter Chiara Mastroianni. Is the beginning of one of the most talked about and photographed reports ever, at least in Italy. With Mastroianni French actress finds herself in other successful films, such as "no big deal, her husband is pregnant," of 1973, and "don't touch the white woman," published in 1974, starring alongside great Ugo Tognazzi.
In 1977 Catherine Deneuve is one of the "lost souls" of the homonymous film by Dino Risi, together with Vittorio Gassman, repeated success with the singles "Casotto" in the same year and directed by Sergio Citti. The 1980s mark the Parisian artist his artistic association with the "White King" Gérard Depardieu. The first movie turning together is "I love you", 1980, followed in the same year, "the last Metro", in which, for the last time under the direction of Truffaut, Deneuve won the César award for best actress and the David di Donatello for best performance. The following year, again with Depardieu, starred in "code of honor", while in 1982 is with Philippe Noiret in "African" Holidays.
The 1983 is famous for her performance alongside the actress Susan Sarandon, in atypical horror "Miriam wakes up at midnight," in which she plays the part of a vampire. The film becomes a cult especially for the scene in which the actress lets go to fellow American in a moment sapphic that goes around the world. After "Fort Saganne," of 1984, with Depardieu and Noiret, receives the call by the great Director Mario Monicelli, who in 1986 he wants in the memorable film "Speriamo che sia femmina". With the film "Indochine" received his first Oscar nomination in 1992, almost in surprise. Two years later, she was appointed vice President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, 1994 edition. The following year the filmmaker Manoel De Oliveira wants in "Il convento", with the American actor John Malkovich. It is the beginning of an artistic collaboration with Director which invokes to the movie "home" in 2000, and "a talking picture" in 2003. Meanwhile, after the honorary Golden bear at the Berlin Film Festival, thanks to the scathing "8 women" mystery "of 2002, he won the silver bear for best actress.
In 2000 he also works with the controversial and original Danish Director Lars von Trier, "Dancer in the Dark". The breakthrough as a writer comes after the film "changing times," published in 2004, with the diary A L'ombre de moi-meme ". In 2006 Catherine Deneuve was named President of the jury at the Venice Film Festival. Between 2007 and 2010, finally, take part in some other movies more or less like "The girl on The train", "Christmas tale" and "Bancs Publics" in addition to "The Big Picture" and "Potiche", where he finds his friend and colleague Depardieu.
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