Delphine Seyrig

Born: 1932-04-10 in Beirut, Lebanon

Died: 1990-10-15

Known For: Acting

Biography

Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig (April 10, 1932 – October 15, 1990) was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She became active in the feminist movement in the 1970s along with filmmakers Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, and Ulrike Ottinger. In 1975, Seyrig joined forces with Carole Roussopoulos and Ioana Wieder to form the collective Les Insoumuses (The Resistant Muses) and produced videos that became an emancipatory tool and medium of political activism.

Filmography

2024

In Her Own Words as Jeanne Dielman

2021

Morceaux de Cannes

2020

Delphine and Carole as Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible as Self (archive footage)
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story as Self

2019

Black Sun as Self (voice)

2015

Energy of Delusion

2014

Duras and Cinema as Self [archive footage]

2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)

2010

Les variations Dielman as Jeanne Dielman (archive footage)

2007

J'aime as (archive footage)

1986

Golden Eighties as Jeanne
Seven Women, Seven Sins as Kabuki Theatre Lady (segment "Pride")
The Discoveries of a Modern Couple as Marie-Claude Poitevin
Letters Home as Aurelia Plath

1984

The Colour of Words as Self
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press as Dr. Mabuse / Grand Inquisitor of Seville

1983

Grain of Sand as Solange

1982

Documenteur as Delphine (voice)

1981

Be Pretty and Shut Up! as Self - Interviewer
Freak Orlando as Helena Müller, als Lebensbaumgöttin, Kaufhausonsängerin, Mutter der Wundergeburt, Helena-Maya, Siamese sister Lena, Bunny Helena
The Man of Destiny as The Lady
Le petit Pommier as La mère
La bête dans la jungle as Catherine Bertram

1980

The Lost Way as Mathilde
I Sent a Letter to My Love as Yvette

1979

On the Move as Barbara

1977

Baxter, Vera Baxter as L'inconnue
The Ambassadors as Marie de Vionnet
Faces of Love as Julie
Il ne fait pas chaud ... (Director)
Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig as Self

1976

30 millions d'amis as Self
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as Jeanne Dielman
Dear Michele as Adriana Vivanti
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert as Anne-Marie Stretter
Maso and Miso Go Boating as Self
The Places of Marguerite Duras
Scum Manifesto as Self
Où est-ce qu'on se "Mai"? ... (Director)

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
India Song as Anne-Marie Stretter
Aloïse as Aloïse (adulte)
The Garden That Tilts as Kate
The Last Word as Simone
Autour de Jeanne Dielman as Self (archive footage)
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan as Widow

1974

The Black Windmill as Ceil Burrows
Say it with Flowers as Françoise Berger, the mother
Cry of the Heart as Mme Bunkermann
Inês as Narrator / Inês Etienne Romeu
Les trois portugaises ... (Director)

1973

The Day of the Jackal as Colette de Montpellier
A Doll's House as Kristine Linde
Diary of a Suicide as L'interprète

1972

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie as Simone Thévenot

1971

Daughters of Darkness as Countess Elizabeth Báthory
Tartuffe as Elmire

1970

Donkey Skin as The Fairy
Le Lys dans la vallée as Madame de Mortsauf
Delphine Seyrig

1969

Mr. Freedom as Marie-Madeline
The Milky Way as The Prostitute
El vientre de la ballena

1968

Stolen Kisses as Fabienne Tabard
Spray of the Days as Narrator (voice)

1967

Accident as Francesca
La Musica as Her
Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler

1966

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? as Une rédactrice
Comédie as La maîtresse (F 2)
Un mois à la campagne as Natalia Petrovna

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Marie de Vionnet
Dim Dam Dom as Self
Qui donc a rêvé? as Alice

1963

Muriel, or the Time of Return as Hélène Aughain
Le Troisième Concerto as Catherine Miller

1961

Last Year at Marienbad as A – The Brunette Woman

1960

Pete and Gladys as Michele Martin

1959

Pull My Daisy as Milo's Wife

1954

Sherlock Holmes as Betty Durham