Françoise Dorléac
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| Born | March 21, 1942 Paris |
| Died | June 26, 1967 (aged 25) Nice, France |
| Years active | 1960–67 |
Françoise Dorléac (March 21, 1942 – June 26, 1967) was a popular French actress. Born in Paris, she was the daughter of screen actor Maurice Dorléac and Renée Deneuve, and the elder sister of the now better-known Catherine Deneuve. The two sisters starred together in the 1967 musical, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.
She was made famous by Philippe de Broca's movie L'homme de Rio, François Truffaut's La peau douce and Roman Polański's Cul-de-Sac, but her career was cut short by her death in a car crash at the age of 25.
[edit] Death
Francoise Dorléac was killed when she lost control of the rented Renault 10 she was driving and hit a sign post ten kilometers from Nice at the end of the Esterel-Côte d'Azur motorway. The car flipped over, and burst into flames. She had been en route to Nice airport and was afraid of missing her flight. Dorléac was seen struggling to get out of the car, but was unable to open the door. Police later identified her body only from the fragment of a cheque book, a diary and her driving license.
Dorléac had intended to fly to Paris, then on to London to complete work on the film Billion-Dollar Brain. She was then to have stayed in Britain for the premiere of The Young Girls of Rochefort.
[edit] Filmography
(Partial list)
- Les loups dans la bergerie (1960)
- Les portes claquent (1960) together with her sister Catherine Deneuve
- Ce soir ou jamais (1960)
- Tout l'or du monde (1961)
- La fille aux yeux d'or (1961)
- La gamberge (1962)
- Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962)
- L'homme de Rio (1964)
- La Peau douce (1964)
- La Ronde (1964)
- Genghis Khan (1965)
- Where the Spies Are (1965)
- Cul-de-Sac (1966)
- The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
- Billion-Dollar Brain (1967)
