French actress (born 1943)
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She's the face French cinema shows the world when it wants to prove cinema is an art form. Across seven decades and over a hundred roles, Deneuve built a career on playing women who don't explain themselves—aloof, impenetrable, worth the effort of watching.
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac made her screen debut at 13 in 1957, stepping into a New Wave that would carry her to the same international tier as Bardot and Delon. Early directors—Buñuel, Truffat, Polanski, Demy—cast her as mysterious beauties who held the camera at arm's length, and the distance worked: musicals like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort made her a key face of the genre. The work spread across continents—America, Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Japan—and pulled nearly 99 million admissions in French theaters, more than any working actress in the…
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[On wearing clothes made by the Yves Saint Laurent brand] You are more aware of what you wear. You feel totally different.
It's the social networks that prevent people from dreaming any more about stars.
I can be very critical on myself and on other people; when I work, I can be very demanding. But to direct...
I think that women who have to deal with a big amount of people have to compartmentalize themselves.
I try not to think that I am acting, but that I am the person.
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