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Catherine Fabienne Dorleac, known only by the surname of his mother and, therefore, better known as Catherine Deneuve, born October 22, 1943, in the French capital, Paris. Internationally renowned actress, then host of television programs, was one of the most popular women from the general public in the 60s and 70s, thanks to its beauty. It is also a popular singer as well as an ambassador of ‘Unesco.

The Catherine was born and raised in a family of art, film and acting are the arts destinations for its members. His father is the acclaimed actor Maurice Dorleac, known to the public especially as M. Teynac, and his mother, herself an actress, is Renee Deneuve. Catherine is the third of four daughters, all actresses: Francois, Sylvie and Danielle, all of which keep the father’s surname.

The young and ambitious Catherine has since undergone some contrasts with the sisters, especially the eldest, Francois, who died prematurely at age 24 in a car accident, exactly in 1967. To stand out from the other three, however, almost immediately took the surname of the mother, Deneuve.

The debut comes soon. When just a teenager, at the age of thirteen years, the small and talented Catherine Deneuve his debut in the movie “The college kids” by Andre Hunebelle, dated 1956. It is the beginning of a brilliant career, which, however, only took off in the next decade. In the ’56 film, in fact, following small parts in mediocre films.

To change the personal and artistic life of the young Catherine, is the director Roger Vadim, who does not just his knowledge falls madly in love with her. She is to impose it as a new female icon of French cinema of the ’60s. After having admired “Les Parisienne”, directed by Marc Allegret, in 1961, and “Hot love” Grisha M. Dabat, the following year, Vadim wants the sensual film “The vice and virtue.” The following year, then, exactly 18 June 1963, confirming their love blossomed, the two have a son, actor Christian Vadim.

Meanwhile Deneuve continues to play the role of femme fatale, As in the 1963 film, “Sexual Anthology”, by Pierre Kast. The year is also important for the part covered in the episodic film titled “The most beautiful fraud in the world.” A year later, however, alongside the great Jean-Paul Belmondo in the comedy “To Catch a male”, while in 1965 came the meeting with the American director Roman Polansk iSigning the strong and scandalous at the time the film titled “Repulsion”. Catherine Deneuve and Vadim bride leaves her new beau, photographer and director David Bailey. The two get married August 19, 1965. Unfortunately, the two can not be happy and after a few years back in 1972, divorced.

The actress says that binds into a strong friendship with the great actor Philippe Noiret, with whom she works in the film “The Army on the sofa,” dated 1965. A year later he met Michel Piccoli, in “Les Creatures,” which finds in the musical “Josephine”, 1966, with the actor Gene Kelly. These are the most successful years for Deneuve reaching the peak of his art and popularity when the director Luis Bunuel cuts on the the scandalous “Beautiful Day”, in 1967, which quickly becomes a movie cult like that and sees the role of a bourgeois boredom that, for three hours, transforms his house into a brothel. His performance, according to the “Premiere Magazine”, is included among the hundred best ever international film.

Even beyond the Alps you notice of his talent. And the beautiful Catherine joins the beautiful Ava Gardner and the actor James Mason, the British film “Mayerling”, dated 1968. The next year begins a new relationship blazing, so loving and professional, the one with the father of new wave, The director François Truffaut. They want it to Jean-Paul Belmondo in the film “My drug is called Julie” in 1969. Despite his marriage to Bailey, who in this period begins to fail, the two artists love blossoms and when the relationship breaks Deneuve, Truffaut feeling the pinch, falling victim to a nervous breakdown.

Finally comes the call from Hollywood. The film that brings Catherine Deneuve in theaters is “I feel that something is happening”, dated 1969, in which she starred opposite Jack Lemmon. A few years later, in 1975, states with two great actors of film stars and stripes, Ernest Borgnine and Burt Reynolds in the movie “A very dangerous game.” But the actress, unenthusiastic role that the U.S. productions riserbano, decides to return to Europe.

It is now Italy from the second home of the French. In 1972 fact, the filming of “The bitch”, by Marco Ferreri, meets the actor Marcello Mastroianni and falls in love completely. Divorced Bailey Deneuve gives birth May 28, 1972 the daughter Chiara Mastroianni. It is the beginning of one of the most talked about relationships and photographed as always, at least in Italy. With Mastroianni, the French actress is found in other successful films, like “Nothing serious, her husband is pregnant,” 1973, “Do not touch the white woman”, 1974, where she played with the great Ugo Tognazzi.

In 1977 Catherine Deneuve is one of the “Lost souls” the film of Dino Risi, Together with Vittorio Gassman, Repeated his success with the singular “Casotto”, the same year and directed by Sergio Citti. The eighties marked the Parisian artist, his artistic partnership with the “White King” Gerard Depardieu. The first film is running at once “I love you”, in 1980, followed, in the same year, “The Last Metro”, in which, for the last time under the direction of Truffaut, Deneuve won a Cesar for the Best Actress and David Donatello for the best foreign interpretation. The following year, again with Depardieu starred in “A Few Good Men”, while in 1982 with Philippe Noiret in “African Tourism”.

The year 1983 is famous for her role alongside actress Susan Sarandon, Nell’atipico horror “Miriam wakes up at midnight,” in which she plays the role of a vampire. The film becomes a cult especially the scene where the French actress lets go with American colleague at a lesbian who goes around the world. After “Fort Saganne”, 1984, with Depardieu and Noiret, receives the call from the great director Mario Monicelli, Which in 1986 takes in the memorable film “Hopefully it will be female.” With the movie “Indochine” received his first Oscar nomination in 1992, almost a surprise. Two years later he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, 1994.

The year after the director Manoel De Oliveira wants in “The Monastery”, with the talented American actor John Malkovich. It is the beginning of an artistic collaboration with the director who calls for the film “Home” in 2000, and “A Talking Picture” in 2003. Meanwhile, after the honorary Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival, thanks to the raw “Eight women and a mystery”, 2002, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress. In 2000 he also works with the controversial Danish director and original Lars von Trier, In “Dancer in the Dark.” His debut as a writer comes after the movie “Changing Times”, 2004, with the diary, “A l’ombre de moi-meme”.

In 2006 Catherine Deneuve is named President of the jury of the Venice Film Festival. Between 2007 and 2010, finally, is involved in several other films more or less important as “The girl on the train”, “A Christmas Tale” and “Bancs Publics”, in addition to “The Big Picture” and “Potiche – The beautiful statue, “where he finds his friend and colleague Depardieu.