Mireille Darc
Mireille Darc ( born May 15, 1938 in Toulon / Var; actually Mireille Aigroz ) is a French actress.
Life and career
The daughter of a gardener and a food seller graduated from the Art Academy of Toulon with distinction and subsequently worked in Paris as a model. Attention she attracted initially in some roles for the television before her talent was discovered for the movie.
Mireille Darc had her film debut in 1960 in the film Risky Pastime ( with Jean -Paul Belmondo ). The following year she was one of the partners of Brigitte Bardot in the playing in the world of film models trained in freedom. After already leading roles ( rogue, gags and monetary affairs, 1963) and Jean Gabin followed in movies with Louis de Funès ( Monsieur, 1964). The breakthrough to stardom brought her the title role in Georges Lautner's psychological thriller Galia (German: Love threes ). Mireille Darc Total should turn thirteen movies with Lautner, so also in the following year, the crime comedy Take it easy, take dynamite with Lino Ventura.
The Mireille often used as a " cool blonde ", but also as a comedienne Darc had already become one of the most famous actresses of French cinema, as in 1968 Alain Delon met. The relationship with him was professional and personal control over their lives in the next fifteen years. With Delon and Jean -Paul Belmondo, she turned the epic 1970 film Borsalino on the ascent and descent of two criminals. Your biggest, and international theatrical hit but Mireille Darc celebrated in 1972 with Pierre Richard in The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe. 1974 turned the two with the tall blonde returns a similarly successful sequel.
In the 1980s, Mireille darcs screen appearances became less frequent. In this decade were a heart operation, a traffic accident with serious injuries, the separation of Alain Delon and the death of her first husband. In 1989, she led - according to its own script - for the first time directing in La Barbare, a film about a neglected daughter who takes revenge on her father by seducing one of his friends, and thereby ruined his life.
In the 1990s, Mireille Darc celebrated triumphs on French television. The family saga Les Coeurs Brûlés found up to eight million viewers. Beginning of the new century, they turned acclaimed television reports and entered into the series to the policeman Frank Riva again at the side of Alain Delon.
After their long-standing relationship with Alain Delon (1968-1983) married in 1984 the journalist and author Pierre Barret († 1989). Since 2002 she has been married to the architect Pascal Desprez. She is the godmother of the writer Romain Sardou.
Mireille Darc 2005 published her autobiography Tant que mon coeur Battra. In the same year she was appointed Knight of the French Legion of Honour.