Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Ren��e Simonot and Maurice Dorl��ac. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was barely a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier role in Le vice et la vertu (1963). Her breakthrough came with the excellent musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (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 The Young Girls of Rochefort (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 Bu?uel's masterpiece Belle de Jour (1967). She also worked with Bu?uel in Tristana (1970) and gave a great performance for Fran?ois Truffaut... [Details Intro]