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Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, in Paris on October 22, 1943 as one of four daughters. The daughter of French stage and film actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier part in Vice et la vertu, Le (1963). But her breakthrough came with the excellent musical Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les (1964) in which she gave an unforgettable performance as a romantic middle-class girl who falls in love with a young soldier but gets imprisoned in a loveless marriage with another man; the director was the gifted Jacques Demy who also cast Deneuve in the less successful Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les (1967). She then played a schizophrenic killer in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and a married woman who works as a part-time prostitute every afternoon in Luis Buñuel's masterpiece Belle de jour (1967). She also worked with Buñuel in Tristana (1970) and gave a great performance for François Truffaut in Sirène du Mississipi, La (1969), a kind of apotheosis of her "frigid femme fatale" persona. In the 1970s, she didn't find parts of that caliber, but her magnificent work in Truffaut's Dernier métro, Le (1980) as a stage actress in Nazi-occupied Paris revived her career. She was also very good in the recent epic drama Indochine (1992) for which she earned her first Academy Award Nominaton (Best Actress). Although the elegant and always radiant Deneuve has never appeared on stage, she is universally hailed as one of the "grandes dames" of French cinema, joining a list that includes such illustrious talents as Simone Signoret, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert, and the younger Juliette Binoche. Deneuve continues to work steadily making at least two or three films per year.
AWARDS
1975 - Bambi Awards
1981 - Cesar (Best Actress) - Le Dernier métro
1981 - David di Donatello Awards, (Best Foreign Actress) -
Le Dernier métro
1993 - Women in Film Crystal Awards,
(International Award)
1993 - Cesar (Best Actress), Indochine
1995 - San Sebastián International Film Festival,
(Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award)
1997 - Moscow International Film Festival, (Silver St. George) -
(Contribution to World Cinema)
1998 - Venice Film Festival, (Volpi Cup, Best Actress) -
Place Vendôme
1998 - Berlin International Film Festival,
(Honorary Golden Berlin Bear)
1999 - Festival du Caire ,
(Lifetime achievement award)
2000 - Art Film Festival, (Actor's Mission Award)
2001 - Bambi Awards, (Film - International)
2002 - Berlin International Film Festival, (Silver Berlin Bear) -
8 Women, shared with ensemble cast
2002 - European Film Awards, (Best Actress) -
8 Women, shared with ensemble cast
2006 - Bangkok International Film Festival,
(Golden Kinnaree Career Achievement Award)

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Designer Yves Saint Laurent Has Died

Yves Saint Laurent (August 1 1936  June 1 2008) was a French fashion designer who was considered 'one of the greatest figures in French fashion in the 20th century. He was the first living fashion de...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:31:00 GMT

CANNES 2008 _ Award to Catherine and Clint Eastwood

[05/25/08] President Sean Penn and the jurors Catherine Deneuve and director/actor Clint Eastwood with a Special Award from this 61st Festival de Cannes. Accepting the award, Catherine Deneuve garner...
Posted by on Sun, 25 May 2008 13:24:00 GMT

*New movie* - Mes Stars et moi

Mes Stars et moi or My Stars and Myself, starring Emmanuelle Béart,  Catherine Deneuve and Mélanie Bernier, is about actresses who go from fashion shoots to premieres wearing the trendiest design...
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 20:48:00 GMT

Paris by Catherine for Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton’s latest ad campaign shows international stars such as Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, and Catherine Deneuve showing off their favourite cities. In this clip, French actress Catherine D...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:50:00 GMT

The 100 Sexiest Movie Stars of All Time

Premiere presents a snapshot of timelessly sexy actors and actresses who look gorgeous and strike an erotic chord in audiences. Proceed at your own risk  excessive palpitations guaranteed.100. Gael G...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:16:00 GMT

Persepolis nominated for Academy Award

Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnoud's Persepolis, based on Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novels, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Feature Film.The film presents a spunky Ira...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:13:00 GMT

Persepolis: Catherine Deneuve Interview

(By Prairie Miller) It's not that easy to imagine yourself sitting down to have a conversation with a legendary diva of movies. But that's just what happened when Catherine Deneuve stopped by to h...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:04:00 GMT