Mireille Darc
- Acting
- May 15, 1938 · Toulon, Var, France
- August 28, 2017
Biography
Mireille Darc (15 May 1938 – 28 August 2017) was a French actress, director, photographer, singer and model. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Merit. Alain Delon was her longtime co-star and companion. Born Mireille Christiane Gabrielle Aimée Aigroz in Toulon, she attended the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Toulon and moved to Paris in 1959. Darc's debuted in Claude Barma's television drama Du côté de l'enfer (aka, La Grande Brétèche, 1960). Her first leading role came in another production for French television, Jean Prat's Hauteclaire (1961). She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Weekend (Week-end, 1967) as Corinne, her highest profile role for international critics; as Christine in The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, 1972) and The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le retour du grand blond, 1974) and alongside Alain Delon and Louis de Funès in several films: Pouic-Pouic (1963), High Lifers (How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965), Jeff (1969), Borsalino (uncredited, 1970), The Love Mates (Madly, 1970), Icy Breasts (Les Seins de glace, 1974), Death of a Corrupt Man (Mort d'un pourri, 1977), Man in a Hurry (L'Homme pressé, 1977), and the television series Frank Riva (2003). Darc had a heart condition from childhood, which required open-heart surgery in 1980. She was seriously injured in a car accident on July 7, 1983, in a tunnel in the Aosta Valley, Italy, suffering a fractured spine and other injuries that required three months of immobilization in a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland. Although they had recently separated about two weeks prior to the accident after a fifteen-year relationship, Delon rushed to Aosta when he heard about the accident, and left separately for Geneva by automobile during the night. She quit her film career, but she returned to television in the 1990s. In 2006, French President Jacques Chirac awarded Darc the Legion of Honour. In 2013, Darc underwent further open heart surgery, and during 2016 she suffered several hemorrhages. She died on 28 August 2017 in Paris in a coma at the age of 79. Source: Article "Mireille Darc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Filmography
- Le Terminus des prétentieux · Self
- Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau · Self
- Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes... · Self
- Mireille Darc, la femme libre · Self
- À la recherche de... Pierre Richard · Self
- Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit · Self
- Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite · Self
- Mireille Darc, blessures intimes · Self
- Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son · Self
- Lino, il n'était que lui-même · Self
- The Great Restaurant II · The Client Who Doesn't Want to Age
- C à vous · Self
- Infrarouge · Self, Director
- Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre · Self
- Une vie classée X · Director
- Frank Riva · Catherine Sinclair
- Le Bleu de l’Océan · Patricia
- Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes · Self
- La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes · Marion
- Vivement dimanche · Self
- Vivement dimanche prochain · Self
- L'ami de mon fils · Louise
- Ni vue ni connue · Nicole Garrel
- Sapho · Fanny
- Terre indigo · Clélia Debarbera
- Les Yeux d'Hélène · Hélène Charrière
- Les Cœurs brûlés · Hélène Charrière
- Stars 90 · Self
- The Savage · Director
- Sacrée soirée · Self
- Nulle part ailleurs · Self
- New Year's Eve At Bob's · Madeleine
- Love Lies · Catherine, Writer
- Jamais avant le mariage · Elisabeth
- Champs-Elysées · Self
- For a Cop's Hide · La Grande sauterelle (uncredited)
- Reporters · Self
- The Small Timers · Annie Garmiche
- Death of a Corrupt Man · Françoise
- The Hurried Man · Edwige De Bois-Rosé
- The Passengers · Nicole
- The Probability Factor · Charlotte
- 30 millions d'amis · Self
- The Pink Telephone · Christine, la call-girl de Mme Claude
- Numéro un · Self
- Système 2 · Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche · Self
- Midi Première · Self
- Tell Me You Love Me · Victoire Danois
- The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe · Christine
- Borsalino and Co. · Prostitute in the Street (uncredited)
- Icy Breasts · Peggy Lister
- OK Patron · Mélissa
- Man in the Trunk · Françoise
- Where There's Smoke · Olga Leroy
- The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe · Christine
- Vagabond Humor
- Midi trente · Self
- There Once Was a Cop · Christine alias Françoise
- Le Grand Échiquier · Self
- Troubleshooters · Carla
- Fantasia Among the Squares · Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo"
- Samedi soir · Self
- The Love Mates · Agatha
- Borsalino · Prostitute (uncredited)
- She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks · Francine
- Monte Carlo or Bust! · Marie-Claude
- Jeff · Eva
- Summit · Annie
- Weekend · Corinne Durand
- Sorrel Flower · Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre
- The Blonde from Peking · Christine Olsen
- Casino Royale · Jag (uncredited)
- The Big Grasshopper · Salène
- À belles dents · Eva Ritter
- Let's Not Get Angry · Églantine Michalon
- Balearic Caper · Polly
- The Upper Hand · Lili Princesse
- Galia · Galia
- How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning · Marie Truchet, dite Héloïse (sketchs "La Fermeture" et "Les Bons Vivants")