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This acclaimed French actress first appeared in films as a teenager, using her mother’s maiden name, Dorleac, in several routine movies, such as “Les Portes Claquent” (1960), with elder sister Francoise. Deneuve’s blonde youthfulness mirrored the sparkle of Jacques Demy’s playful musical “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” (1964), which made her an international star. Deneuve later developed an icy charm that brilliantly embodied contemporary repression and ennui in Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion” (1965), and Luis Bunuel’s “Belle de Jour” (1967) and “Tristana” (1970).

Hollywood occasionally beckoned the stunning and photogenic Deneuve, but neither the romantic comedy “The April Fools” (1969) nor the neo-noir “Hustle” (1975) earned the attention both she and the films deserved. Although Deneuve’s impassive nature has produced powerfully underplayed performances studded with sexual tension—as in Truffaut’s “The Last Metro” (1980) or Andre Techine’s “Scene of the Crime” (1986)—too often she has been cast as the obligatory romantic heroine. The erotic thriller, “The Hunger” (1983), for example, polarized critics—they either loved or loathed Deneuve’s decadent vampire.

Deneuve produced and acted in “A Strange Place to Meet” (1988), a failure to some, but by then the actress had become a French institution. Her indelible, glossy femininity helped her earn the lead in Regis Wargnier’s epic “Indochine” (1992), which garnered Deneuve an Oscar nomination for playing an imperious rubber plantation owner in French Indochina. Deneuve gave a subtle performance as an upper-class professional forced to cope with an aging mother and an unreliable brother in “Ma saison preferee” (“My Favorite Season”, 1993). Continuing her work with interesting filmmakers, Deneuve displayed her aloof persona in the chilling metaphysical tale, “The Convent” (1995), directed by Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira. She won acclaim as a jeweler’s widow who discovers a cache of diamonds in “Place Vendome” (1998), and as a high-society matron in the comical murder mystery “8 Women”, for which she shared the Silver Bear Award for Best Ensemble Cast at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival. In 2004, Deneuve rejoined de Oliveira for “A Talking Picture”, Portugal’s official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, co-starring John Malkovich.

• Also Credited As:
  Catherine Dorleac
• Born:
  on 10/22/43 in Paris, France
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Model, Producer

Family

• Daughter: Chiara Mastroianni. born on May 28, 1972, co-starred with her mother in the film “Ma Saison Preferee” (1993)
• Father: Maurice Dorleac.
• Grandchild: born in 1996; mother, Chiara Mastroianni
• Mother: Renee Dorleac.
• Sister: Francoise Dorleac. born in 1942; killed in 1967 in a car crash; appeared with Deneuve in several films, including “The Young Girls of Rochefort” (1967)
• Son: Christian Vadim. born on June 18, 1963; married in 1996
• : has two other sisters

Significant Others

• Husband: David Bailey. married in 1965; separated in 1970; divorced in 1972; died February 11, 2000
• Companion: Francois Truffaut.
• Companion: Marcello Mastroianni. together from 1971 to 1975
• Companion: Pierre Lescure. together c. 1984 to c. 1991
• Companion: Roger Vadim. met in 1961

Milestones

• 1956 First film appearance (a bit part) in “Les Collegiennes”, billed as Catherine Dorleac
• 1959 Film acting debut in “Les Petits Chats”, billed as Catherine Deneuve
• 1964 Starred in Jacques Demy’s award-winning musical “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”
• 1965 English language debut in Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion”
• 1967 Cast as a bored housewife who becomes a call girl in Luis Bunuel’s “Belle de Jour”
• 1967 Reteamed with Demy for the musical “Les Demoiselles of Rochefort/The Young Girls of Rochefort”; starred with her sister Francoise Dorleac, playing twin sisters
• 1969 First Hollywood film, “The April Fools”
• 1969 Played dual role in Francois Truffaut’s “The Mississippi Mermaid”
• 1970 Third film with Demy, “Peau d’anne/Donkey Skin”
• 1971 First of five films with Marcello Mastroianni, “It Only Happens to Others”
• 1973 Co-starred with Mastroianni in the Jacques Demy-directed “A Slightly Pregnant Man”
• 1975 Returned to Hollywood to co-star opposite Burt Reynolds in “Hustle”
• 1975 Starred in “Le Sauvage”, helmed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
• 1980 Reteamed with Truffaut for “The Last Metro”; first of six films with Gerard Depardieu
• 1982 First of four films (to date) with Andre Techine, “Hotel des Ameriques”
• 1983 Appeared opposite Susan Sarandon in the vampire-themed “The Hunger”
• 1985 Profile chosen as the model for the symbol of the French Republic, “Marianne,” a statuette of which is displayed in every city and town hall in the country
• 1988 First film as producer (also actress), “Drole d’endroit pour une rencontre/A Strange Place to Meet”
• 1992 Received Best Actress Oscar nomination for “Indochine”
• 1993 Co-starred in Techine’s “Ma saison preferee/My Favorite Season” (released in the USA in 1996)
• 1995 Starred in “The Convent”, directed by Manoel de Oliveira
• 1996 Reteamed with Techine for “Les Voleurs/Thieves”
• 1998 Earned praise for her performance as a jeweler’s widow in “Place Vendome”
• 2000 Appeared in award-winning drama “Dancer in the Dark” starring Bjork
• 2002 Had featured role in comedy “8 Women”
• 2004 Starred in Manoel de Oliveira’s “Um Filme Falado/A Talking Picture”