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NAME: Catherine Deneuve
PROFILE: Name: Catherine Deneuve
Birth Name: Catherine Fabienne Dorléac
Height: 5' 6"
Sex: F
Nationality: French
Birth Date: October 22, 1943
Birth Place: Paris, France
Profession: actress, musician
Husband/Wife: David Bailey (director, writer; born January 2, 1938; married August 19, 1965; divorced in 1972)
Relationship: Roger Vadim (director; born January 28, 1928; died February 11, 2000), Marcello Mastroianni (actor; born September 28, 1924; died December 19, 1996)
Father: Maurice Dorléac (actor; born March 26, 1901; died December 4, 1979)
Mother: Renée Deneuve (actress)
Sister: Françoise Dorléac (actress; born March 21, 1942; died June 26, 1967), Sylvie Dorléac
Son: Christian Vadim (actor; born June 18, 1963; father: Roger Vadim)
Daughter: Chiara Mastroianni (actress; born May 28, 1972; father: Marcello Mastroianni)
Claim to fame: French legendary movie star, most notably as Geneviève Emery in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
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GOSSIP:
  • Says nudity is an unnecessary distraction in movies. (May 16, 2005)
  • Voted the 4th most elegant woman ever in the Woman's Journal survey. (2001)
  • Sometimes credited as: Catherine Dorleac
  • Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#38). (1995)
  • Festival tribute at the Creteil International Women's Film Festival, France. (1994)
  • Vice president of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994.
  • Is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
  • Designer of glasses, shoes, jewelry and greetings cards.
  • Mother-in-law of singer Benjamin Biolay.
  • An archetype for Gallic beauty, she succeeded Brigitte Bardot as the model for Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic seen on French coins and stamps.
  • Ranked #89 in Empire (UK) magazine's The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. (October 1997)
  • She liked BREAKING THE WAVES (1996) by Lars von Trier so much that she wrote a personal letter to him, asking him for a role in a film of his. The result of this is her part in Dancer in the Dark (2000).
  • Has never performed in the theatre due to stage fright.
  • Was once fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent's muse, who dressed her for the films BELLE DE JOUR (1967), LA CHAMADE (1968), LA SIRENE DU MISSISSIPI (1969), UN FLIC (1972), and THE HUNGER (1983).
  • Had a brand of perfume named after her.
  • MORE CATHERINE DENEUVE TRIVIA
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