Delphine Seyrig

Delphine Seyrig Belriane Claire ( born April 10, 1932 in Beirut, † October 15th 1990 in Paris) was a French actress and director.

The daughter of the archaeologist Henri Seyrig and Hermine de Saussure gave acting lessons her debut in Paris in 1952 at the Drama Centre de l' Est. From 1954 she played some time at the municipal theater of Saint- Étienne, where she had success in Chekhov's The Seagull. In 1956 she went to New York and trained at the city's Actors Studio on. In the short film Pull My Daisy in 1958, she received her first film role. Then she returned to France.

Alain Resnais made ​​the hitherto little-known, always mysteriously acting Delphine Seyrig for lead actress of his works Last Year at Marienbad and Muriel, or The Time of Return. Your way of acting continued to influence for the now emerging Nouvelle Vague. Luis Buñuel hired her for his films The Milky Way and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. For François Truffaut, she starred in Stolen Kisses. In addition to some English-language film roles for, inter alia, Joseph Losey and Fred Zinnemann was Seyrig life primarily the - later also German - Author Movies faithful.

For her role in Muriel, the time of recurrence, she was honored at the Film Festival in Venice. Delphine Seyrig died at the age of 58 from lung cancer.

Films as an actress (selection)

Films as a director

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