Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (UK: /dəˈnɜːv/,^[1] US: /dəˈnʊv/,^[2] French: [katʁin dənœv] ^ⓘ), is a French actress, producer, and model. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film.^[3] Early in her career, she gained acclaim for her portrayals of aloof and mysterious beauties for well-known directors, including Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Roman Polanski, and Agnès Varda.^[4] In 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, France's national symbol of liberty.^[5]

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Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Fabienne Dorléac

22 October 1943

Paris, France

Actress
model
singer
film producer

1957–present

David Bailey

(m. 1965; div. 1972)

Roger Vadim (1961–1964)
Marcello Mastroianni (1970–1974)
Hugh Johnson (1982–1983)
Pierre Lescure (1984–1991)

Christian Vadim
Chiara Mastroianni

Maurice Dorléac
Renée Simonot

Françoise Dorléac (sister)

Deneuve made her screen debut in 1957 at age 13, in a film shot the previous year when she was only 12. She gained acclaim for her collaborations with Jacques Demy's starring in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), and Donkey Skin (1970). She starred in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965), and Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour (1967) and Tristana (1970). Her other notable films include The Hunger (1983), Indochine (1992), My Favourite Season (1993), Place Vendôme (1998), Dancer in the Dark (2000), 8 Women (2002), and The Truth (2019).

She has received numerous accolades over her career including two César Awards, and the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actress as well as nominations for an Academy Award, and BAFTA Award. She has received honorary awards, including the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear in 1998, the Cannes Film Festival's Honorary Palme d'Or in 2005, and the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion in 2022.

Deneuve was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the Safeguarding of Film Heritage in 1994 until her resignation on 12 November 2003.

UNESCO

Deneuve asked that the rights owed to her from her representation of Marianne be given to .^[32]

Amnesty International

made a donation to The Climate Project, spearheaded by Al Gore, on behalf of Deneuve.

Louis Vuitton

Deneuve is also involved with Children Action, Children of Africa, Orphelins Roumains and .

Reporters Without Borders

Douleur sans frontiers (Pain Without Borders) – At the end of 2003, Deneuve recorded a radio commercial to encourage donations to fight against the pain in the world, notably for the victims of landmines.

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– In the middle of July 2005, Deneuve lent her voice to the message of radio commercials, TV and cinema, which denounced the use of the BASM (cluster bombs).

Handicap International

Voix de femmes pour la démocratie (Voice of women for democracy) – Deneuve read the text, "Le petit garçon", of Jean-Lou Dabadie, on the entitled CD, "Voix de femmes pour la démocratie." The CD was sold for the benefit of the female victims of the war and the fundamentalisms that fight for democracy.

Deneuve has also been involved with various charities in the fight against AIDS and cancer.

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In 1971, Deneuve signed the . The manifesto was an admission by its signers to have had illegal abortions, and therefore exposed themselves to judicial actions and prison sentences. It was published in Le Nouvel Observateur on 5 April 1971. That same year, feminist lawyer Gisèle Halimi founded the group, Choisir ("To Choose"), to protect the women who had signed the Manifesto of the 343.

Manifesto of the 343

Deneuve is involved with 's program to abolish the death penalty.

Amnesty International

In 2001, Deneuve delivered a petition organized by the French-based group, "Together Against the death penalty", to the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

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In April 2007, Deneuve signed a petition on the internet protesting against the "misogynous" treatment of socialist presidential candidate . More than 8,000 French men and women signed the petition, including French actress Jeanne Moreau.^[35]

Ségolène Royal

In 2011, among other French celebrities Deneuve signed a petition asking the future President of France to propose a vote at the to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.^[36]

United Nations General Assembly

In January 2018, Deneuve, along with 99 other French women writers, performers and academics, signed an open letter that argued the had gone too far, turning into a "witch hunt", and denounced it as a form of puritanism, resulting in a backlash.^[37]^[38] Although she later apologized to all the victims who might have felt assaulted by the letter, she still supported it saying there was "nothing in the letter" to Le Monde that said "anything good about harassment, otherwise I wouldn't have signed it".^[39]

#Me Too movement

Serge Gainsbourg

1981: Her first and only album issued – Souviens-toi de m'oublier written by

Catherine Deneuve