Françoise Dorléac

Françoise Dorléac ( born March 21, 1942 in Paris, † June 26, 1967 in Villeneuve- Loubet, Alpes- Maritimes) was a French actress and the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve. She turned in her relatively short film career total of 16 films ( thrillers, adventure films, but also comedies ) and became one of the most popular young actresses of French cinema. Animated their one and a half years younger sister, also to go to the movie. This later adopted the maiden name of her mother, not to be confused with her ​​sister.

Life and work

Dorléac studied classical dance later took acting classes, with René Girard and worked at the Paris Theater, where she was able to celebrate as Gigi a stage hit soon. With the short film Mensonges she made her debut in 1957 at the cinema and had hate in you and they love (Les loups dans la bergerie ) 1959 for the first time a small film role in a feature film. In 1961 she was given the first starring role in The great stitch at the side of Jean -Pierre Cassel, with whom she steal again in Also in the same year to be learned played together.

She became famous in 1963 with two films whose main characters could not be more: the gentle, the married lover rejecting stewardess Nicole in François Truffaut's elegiac drama The sweet skin and the capricious Agnès in Philippe de Broca's comic -like comedy adventure in Rio, in the they co-star Jean -Paul Belmondo bossed around. Roman Polanski cast her in 1966 as Teresa If Katelbach comes ... One of her greatest successes they had as long as Jacques Demy's musical Garnier in The Young Girls of Rochefort, where they play and Catherine Deneuve twin sisters. This should be his last film Dorléacs. In 1967, she came at the age of 25 years in a traffic accident near Nice lost their lives.

Filmography

Documentary

• Elle s'appelait Françoise. Television documentary, France, 1996, 63 min Director: Anne Andreu, Mathias Ledoux, production: Canal , Meeting: