Catherine Deneuve
22 October, 1943
| 1.67 m
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Biography
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 Występek i cnota (1963). Her breakthrough came with the excellent musical Parasolki z Cherbourga (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 Panienki z Rochefort (1967). She then played a schizophrenic killer in Roman Polanski's Wstręt (1965) and a married woman who works as a part-time prostitute every afternoon in Luis Buñuel's masterpiece Piękność dnia (1967). She also worked with Buñuel in Tristana (1970) and gave a great performance for François Truffaut in Syrena z Mississipi (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 Ostatnie metro (1980) as a stage actress in Nazi-occupied Paris revived her career. She was also very good in the epic drama Indochiny (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, Isabelle Adjani and the younger Juliette Binoche.
Movies
An Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?
A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.
A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire (Catherine Deneuve), her cellist companion (David Bowie), and a gerontologist (Susan Sarandon).
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.
Alexander Dumas' novel is updated with an eastern influence as D'Artagnan attempts to join the king's elite guards, the Royal Musketeers, and find the man who killed his parents.
Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.
A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.
Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.
After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate and risky second heist.
A stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a daughter of a mother who never grows old.
The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.
Wael (Kheiron) a former street child, makes a living from small scams with his adoptive mother and partner-in-crime Monique (Catherine Deneuve). When this unconventional duo swindles the wrong guy, Victor (André Dussollier), an old acquaintance of Monique now in charge of a suppo... Read all
A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister, starting an unusual relationship with her and prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fiancée.