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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
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Catherine Deneuve
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CATHERINE DENEUVE BOOKSHELF |
The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve: My Life Behind the Camera by Catherine Deneuve
Deneuve's intimate autobiography, focusing especially on her work with directors Bunuel, Truffaut, Polanski, and von Trier. These are Catherine's own words about her personal life and her career in the film industry.
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From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom by Lisa Downing and Sue Harris (editors)
A wide-ranging and authoritative collection of essays by a selection of international film academics and writers. Deneuve persona of French national icon is scrutinized and illuminated, beyond the glamorous iconographic status of Yves Saint Laurentis muse, and the epitome of sexual inviolability.
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A Theatrical Family
Catherine Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in Paris at a time when the city was under German occupation. Her parents, Maurice Dorléac and Renée Deneuve, were both actors. She was the middle of three daughters. Her older sister was Francoise Dorléac (born 1942, died 1967) and her younger sister is Sylvie Dorléac (born 1946).
Catherine made her screen debut at the age of 14 in Les Collégiennes (The Twi