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

2022

Angry Annie as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2020

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible as Self (archive footage)
Delphine and Carole 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")
Letters Home as Aurelia Plath
The Discoveries of a Modern Couple as Marie-Claude Poitevin

1984

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

1983

Grain of Sand as Solange

1981

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

1980

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

1979

On the Move as Barbara

1977

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

1976

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

1975

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

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
Diary of a Suicide as L'interprète
A Doll's House as Kristine Linde

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

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

1966

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

1965

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

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