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Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally asCatherine Deneuve (UK:/dəˈnɜːv/,[1]US:/dəˈnʊv/,[2]French:[katʁindənœv]ⓘ), is a French actress. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film.[3] In 2020,The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.[4]
Deneuve made her screen debut in 1957 at age 13, in a film shot the previous year when she was only 12. A major figure of theNew Wave, she became, likeBrigitte Bardot andAlain Delon, one of the best-known French artists in the world.[5][6] In a career spanning nearly 70 years, she has played more than a hundred roles and is recognized in France and internationally for being one of the key faces of themusical film genre with appearances inThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg,The Young Girls of Rochefort,Donkey Skin,8 Women andThe Beloved. Early in her career, she gained acclaim for her portrayals of aloof and mysterious beauties while working for well-known directors such asLuis Buñuel,François Truffaut,Jacques Demy,Roman Polanski, andAgnès Varda.[7] She played in films attracting a total of nearly 99 million spectators in theaters, making her the working actress with the most admissions in France.[8] In 1985, she succeededMireille Mathieu as the official face ofMarianne, France's national symbol of liberty.[9]
Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in Paris,[10] the daughter of French stage actorsMaurice Dorléac and italian-french[11]Renée Simonot. Deneuve had two sisters,Françoise Dorléac (21 March 1942 – 26 June 1967) and Sylvie Dorléac (born 14 December 1946),[12] as well as a maternal half-sister, Danièle, whom their mother had out of wedlock in 1936 withAimé Clariond. Deneuve used her mother's maiden name, which she chose for her stage name, in order to differentiate herself from her sisters. Deneuve attended Catholic schools.[13]
Deneuve made her film debut with a small role inAndré Hunebelle'sLes Collégiennes (1957) with her younger sister Sylvie Dorléac who, like their older half-sister Daniele, was an occasional child actress.[14] She subsequently appeared in several films for directorRoger Vadim as well as inL'Homme à femmes [fr] (1960), which caught the eye ofJacques Demy, who cast Deneuve as Geneviève Emery in his romantic film musicalThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), the film that brought her to stardom.[14] The film received critical acclaim winning thePalme d'Or at the1964 Cannes Film Festival.Variety praised her performance, writing, "Catherine Deneuve, a winsome-looking type that other directors have forced to act, here is allowed to be herself. She etches a fine portrait of a 16-year-old in love."[15] The same year she acted in several films including the anthology filmThe World's Most Beautiful Swindlers in a segment directed byClaude Chabrol and the comedyMale Hunt directed byÉdouard Molinaro.
In 1969, Deneuve starred inStuart Rosenberg's Americanromantic comedy filmThe April Fools, starring oppositeJack Lemmon. That same year she acted inFrançois Truffaut's romantic crime dramaMississippi Mermaid acting alongsideJean-Paul Belmondo.The New York Times film criticVincent Canby praised the film writing, "As in all of Truffaut's films, love leads only to an uncertain future that, at best, may contain some joy along with the inevitable misery. Truffaut's special talent, however, is for communicating a sense of the value of that joy."[19] She reunited with Buñel for the dramaTristana (1970) acting alongsideFernando Rey andFranco Nero.[20] Her work for Buñuel would be her best known.[21][22] That same year, she reunited with Jacques Demy for the musical fantasyDonkey Skin (1970) based on the1695 fairy tale of the same name byCharles Perrault.Roger Ebert praised the film writing, "It provides a visual feast and fanciful imaginations, and Deneuve was then, as she was before and since, a great beauty with the confidence such beauty requires."[23]
Deneuve's part inLars von Trier's musical dramaDancer in the Dark (2000), alongside Icelandic singerBjörk was subject to considerable critical scrutiny. The film was selected for thePalme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. She made another foray into Hollywood the following year, starring inThe Musketeer (2001) forPeter Hyams. In 2002, she shared the Silver Bear Award for Best Ensemble Cast at theBerlin International Film Festival for her performance in8 Women. In 2005, Deneuve published her diaryA l'ombre de moi-meme ("In My Own Shadow", published in English asClose Up and Personal: The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve); in it she writes about her experiences shooting the filmsIndochine andDancer in the Dark. She also provided thevoice role ofMarjane Satrapi's mother in Satrapi's animated autobiographical filmPersepolis (2007), based on the graphic novel of thesame name.
Deneuve appeared nude in twoPlayboy pictorials in 1963 and 1965.[29] Her image was used to representMarianne, the national symbol of France,[30] from 1985 to 1989.[31] As the face ofChanel No. 5 in the late 1970s, she caused sales of the perfume to soar in the United States – so much so that the American press, captivated by her charm, nominated her as the world's most elegant woman.[32] In 1983, American Home Products retained her to represent their cosmetics line and hired world-renowned photographerRichard Avedon to promote its line ofYouth Garde cosmetics, for which she famously proclaimed, "Look closely. Next year, I will be 40."
She is considered the muse of designerYves Saint Laurent; he dressed her in the filmsBelle de Jour,La Chamade,La sirène du Mississippi,Un flic,Liza, andThe Hunger. In 1992, she became a model for his skincare line.In 2001, she was chosen as the new face ofL'Oréal Paris. In 2006, Deneuve became the third inspiration for the M•A•C Beauty Icon series and collaborated on the colour collection that became available at M•A•C locations worldwide in February that year. Deneuve began appearing in the newLouis Vuitton luggage advertisements in 2007. Deneuve was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by theGuardian in March 2013.[33] In July 2017, Deneuve appeared in a video campaign forLouis Vuitton entitledConnected Journeys, celebrating the launch of the brand's Tambour Horizon smartwatch, which also featured celebrities, includingJennifer Connelly,Bae Doona,Jaden Smith andMiranda Kerr.[34]
In 1986, Deneuve introduced her own perfume,Deneuve.[35] She is also a designer of glasses, shoes, jewelry and greeting cards.[36] In 2005, she launched a limited-edition makeup collection forMAC Cosmetics.[37] For the Catherine Deneuve eyewear line, she has had licensing agreements with Viva International (from 1989) andMarcolin (2014–2019) for the design, production and distribution of sunglasses and optical frames.[38]
Deneuve is also involved with Children Action, Children of Africa, Orphelins Roumains andReporters Without Borders.
Douleur sans frontiers (Pain Without Borders) – At the end of 2003, Deneuve recorded a radio commercial to encourage donations to fight against the pain in the world, notably for the victims of landmines.[40]
Handicap International – In the middle of July 2005, Deneuve lent her voice to the message of radio commercials, TV and cinema, which denounced the use of the BASM (cluster bombs).
Voix de femmes pour la démocratie (Voice of women for democracy) – Deneuve read the text, "Le petit garçon", of Jean-Lou Dabadie, on the entitled CD, "Voix de femmes pour la démocratie." The CD was sold for the benefit of the female victims of the war and the fundamentalisms that fight for democracy.
Deneuve has also been involved with various charities in the fight againstAIDS and cancer.[40]
In 1971, Deneuve signed theManifesto of the 343. The manifesto was an admission by its signers to have had illegal abortions, and therefore exposed themselves to judicial actions and prison sentences. It was published inLe Nouvel Observateur on 5 April 1971. That same year, feminist lawyerGisèle Halimi founded the group, Choisir ("To Choose"), to protect the women who had signed the Manifesto of the 343.
Deneuve is involved withAmnesty International's program to abolish the death penalty.
In 2001, Deneuve delivered a petition organized by the French-based group, "Together Against the death penalty", to the U.S. Embassy in Paris.[41]
In April 2007, Deneuve signed a petition on the internet protesting against the "misogynous" treatment of socialist presidential candidateSégolène Royal. More than 8,000 French men and women signed the petition, including French actressJeanne Moreau.[42]
In 2011, among other French celebrities Deneuve signed a petition asking the future President of France to propose a vote at theUnited Nations General Assembly to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.[43]
In January 2018, Deneuve, along with 99 other French women writers, performers and academics, signed an open letter that argued the#MeToo movement had gone too far, turning into a "witch hunt", and denounced it as a form ofpuritanism, resulting in a backlash.[44][45] Though she later apologized to all the victims who felt offended by the letter, she defended her involvement by saying there was "nothing in the letter" toLe Monde that said "anything good about harassment, otherwise [she] wouldn't have signed it".[46]
Besides her native French, Deneuve speaks fluent Italian and English, and has some knowledge of Spanish. Her hobbies and passions include gardening, drawing, photography, reading, music, cinema, fashion, antiques and decoration.[40] According to a 1996The New York Times article, she is a practicingRoman Catholic.[48]
Deneuve has two children: actorChristian Vadim (born 18 June 1963), from her relationship with Roger Vadim, and actressChiara Mastroianni (born 28 May 1972), from her relationship with Marcello Mastroianni. She has five grandchildren. Deneuve has not had a public relationship since her breakup with Lescure in 1991, with whom she remains friends; Deneuve's two children consider him their stepfather. According toGala, in late 2019 Deneuve relied on Lescure while she recuperated from a stroke.[54] In 2020, she toldParis Match that the two still talk to each other every day.[55]
In recent decades, Deneuve's highly private life has prompted speculation about her sexual orientation, which she acknowledged in a 2002 interview withKnack magazine: "Now that people know nothing about my private life, they start guessing: is there still a man in her life and who is he then? When they see me two or three times with a female friend they say: we've always known that."[70] In 2006, Deneuve toldThe Daily Telegraph that she was in a relationship, though she did not disclose his name.[71]
A 2020 biography ofJohnny Hallyday by Gilles Lhote says the singer maintained a carefully hidden, 56-year affair with Deneuve that started when they were teenagers in 1961 and continued until Hallyday's death in 2017.[72][73]
Deneuve was a close friend of the artistNall, and owns some of his works.[74]
On 6 November 2019,BBC News reported that Deneuve suffered a mild stroke and was recuperating in a Paris hospital. Despite the health scare, there was no damage to her motor functions.[75] Five weeks later, she was released from hospital, and spent the remainder of 2019 recuperating at her Paris home.[76]
Deneuve began smoking in 1960 at age 16, and has been known to smoke up to three packs a day.[77] She quit in 1985 with the aid ofhypnotherapy,[78] but started again in 1996.[79] She quit again after her 2019 stroke,[80] but by 2025, had resumed the habit using anelectronic cigarette.[81]
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^Siskel, Gene (29 December 1975). "'Hustle': a holiday film in a class by itself".Chicago Tribune. Section 1, p. 27.ISSN1085-6706.
^Sweet, Matthew (29 November 2002)."My lips are sealed".The Independent. UK. Archived fromthe original on 2 June 2007.she cackles with delight when I ask her if the scene has pleased her army of lesbian fans ... She acquired this following Tony Scott's vampire flick "The Hunger" (1983), in which she played a fanged seductress ... who took her sweet time getting to Susan Sarandon's jugular ...(subscription required)
^Cartner-Morley, Jess; Mirren, Helen; Huffington, Arianna; Amos, Valerie (28 March 2013)."The 50 best-dressed over 50s".The Guardian. London.Archived from the original on 20 April 2016.
