Mireille Darc
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
Credits
- 2020 · Le Terminus des prétentieux as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes... as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Mireille Darc, la femme libre as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 2015 · Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit as Self
- 2015 · Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite as Self
- 2013 · Mireille Darc, blessures intimes as Self
- 2013 · Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son as Self
- 2012 · Lino, il n'était que lui-même as Self
- 2011 · The Great Restaurant II as The Client Who Doesn't Want to Age
- 2009 · C à vous as Self
- 2006 · Infrarouge as Self - Presenter
- 2005 · Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre as Self
- 2003 · Frank Riva as Catherine Sinclair
- 2003 · Le Bleu de l’Océan as Patricia
- 2002 · Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes as Self
- 1998 · La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes as Marion
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche prochain as Self
- 1997 · L'ami de mon fils as Louise
- 1997 · Ni vue ni connue as Nicole Garrel
- 1997 · Sapho as Fanny
- 1996 · Terre indigo as Clélia Debarbera
- 1994 · Les Yeux d'Hélène as Hélène Charrière
- 1992 · Les Cœurs brûlés as Hélène Charrière
- 1990 · Stars 90 as Self
- 1987 · Sacrée Soirée as Self
- 1987 · Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- 1984 · New Year's Eve At Bob's as Madeleine
- 1983 · Love Lies as Catherine
- 1982 · Jamais avant le mariage as Elisabeth
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1981 · For a Cop's Hide as La Grande sauterelle (uncredited)
- 1981 · Reporters as Self
- 1978 · The Small Timers as Annie Garmiche
- 1977 · Death of a Corrupt Man as Françoise
- 1977 · The Hurried Man as Edwige de Bois-Rosé
- 1977 · The Passengers as Nicole
- 1976 · The Probability Factor as Charlotte
- 1976 · 30 millions d'amis as Self
- 1975 · The Pink Telephone as Christine, la call-girl de Mme Claude
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self
- 1975 · Système 2 as Self
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1975 · Midi Première as Self
- 1974 · Tell Me You Love Me as Victoire Danois
- 1974 · The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe as Christine
- 1974 · Borsalino and Co. as Prostitute in the Street (uncredited)
- 1974 · Icy Breasts as Peggy Lister
- 1974 · OK Patron as Mélissa
- 1973 · Man in the Trunk as Françoise
- 1973 · Where There's Smoke as Olga Leroy
- 1972 · The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe as Christine
- 1972 · Vagabond Humor as
- 1972 · Midi trente as Self
- 1972 · There Once Was a Cop as Christine alias Françoise
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1971 · Troubleshooters as Carla
- 1971 · Fantasia Among the Squares as Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo"
- 1971 · Samedi soir as Self
- 1970 · The Love Mates as Agatha
- 1970 · Borsalino as Prostitute (uncredited)
- 1970 · She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks as Francine
- 1969 · Monte Carlo or Bust! as Marie-Claude
- 1969 · Jeff as Eva
- 1968 · Summit as Annie
- 1967 · Weekend as Corinne Durand
- 1967 · Sorrel Flower as Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre
- 1967 · The Blonde from Peking as Christine Olsen
- 1967 · Casino Royale as Jag (uncredited)
- 1967 · The Big Grasshopper as Salène
- 1966 · À belles dents as Eva Ritter
- 1966 · Let's Not Get Angry as Églantine Michalon
- 1966 · Balearic Caper as Polly
- 1966 · The Upper Hand as Lili Princesse
- 1966 · Galia as Galia
- 1965 · How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning as Marie Truchet, dite Héloïse (sketchs "La Fermeture" et "Les Bons Vivants")
- 1965 · Dim Dam Dom as Self
- 1964 · The Great Spy Chase as Amaranthe
- 1964 · Male Hunt as Georgina
- 1964 · Hard Boiled Ones as Josette
- 1964 · Dandelions by the Roots as Rockie « la Braise », femme entretenue
- 1964 · Monsieur as Suzanne, Former Maid of Monsieur
- 1964 · 4XD as Self
- 1964 · L'Été en hiver as Diane, the Actress Wife
- 1963 · Squeak-squeak as Patricia Monestier
- 1963 · People in Luck as Jacqueline (segment "Le Vison")
- 1962 · Virginie as Brigitte
- 1962 · The Devil and the Ten Commandments as Une amie de Mauricette
- 1961 · The New Aristrocrats as Milou Rivoire
- 1961 · To Die of Love as Mariette, Maid
- 1961 · Hauteclaire as Hauteclaire Stassin
- 1961 · Please, Not Now! as Marie-Jeanne
- 1961 · ¿Pena de muerte? as Lina
- 1960 · Trapped by Fear as Maïa
- 1960 · La grande bretèche as Jane