Mireille Darc
Born: 1938-05-15 in Toulon, Var, France
Died: 2017-08-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2020
- Le Terminus des prétentieux as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau as Self (archive footage)
- 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
2013
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
- Une vie classée X ... (Director)
2003
- Frank Riva as Catherine Sinclair
- Le Bleu de l’Océan as Patricia
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- Vivement dimanche prochain as Self
- La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes as Marion
1997
- L'ami de mon fils as Louise
- Ni vue ni connue as Nicole Garrel
- 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
1989
- The Savage ... (Director)
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- Nulle part ailleurs as Self
1984
- New Year's Eve At Bob's as Madeleine
1983
- Love Lies as Catherine
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Jamais avant le mariage as Elisabeth
1981
- For a Cop's Hide as La Grande sauterelle (uncredited)
- Reporters as Self
1978
- The Small Timers as Annie Garmiche
1977
- The Passengers as Nicole
- The Hurried Man as Edwige de Bois-Rosé
- Death of a Corrupt Man as Françoise
1976
- 30 millions d'amis as Self
- The Probability Factor as Charlotte
1975
- Midi Première as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- The Pink Telephone as Christine, la call-girl de Mme Claude
- Système 2 as Self
1974
- OK Patron as Mélissa
- Borsalino and Co. as Prostitute in the Street (uncredited)
- The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe as Christine
- Tell Me You Love Me as Victoire Danois
- Icy Breasts as Peggy Lister
1973
- Man in the Trunk as Françoise
- Where There's Smoke as Olga Leroy
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Midi trente as Self
- The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe as Christine
- There Once Was a Cop as Christine alias Françoise
- Vagabond Humor
1971
- Troubleshooters as Carla
- Samedi soir as Self
- Fantasia Among the Squares as Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo"
1970
- Borsalino as Prostitute (uncredited)
- She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks as Francine
- The Love Mates as Agatha
1969
- Jeff as Eva
- Monte Carlo or Bust! as Marie-Claude
1968
- Summit as Annie
1967
- Casino Royale as Jag (uncredited)
- Weekend as Corinne Durand
- Sorrel Flower as Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre
- The Big Grasshopper as Salène
- The Blonde from Peking as Christine Olsen
1966
- The Upper Hand as Lili Princesse
- Let's Not Get Angry as Églantine Michalon
- À belles dents as Eva Ritter
- Balearic Caper as Polly
- Galia as Galia
1965
- How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning as Marie Truchet, dite Héloïse (sketchs "La Fermeture" et "Les Bons Vivants")
- Dim Dam Dom as Self
1964
- Monsieur as Suzanne, Former Maid of Monsieur
- Male Hunt as Georgina
- The Great Spy Chase as Amaranthe
- Dandelions by the Roots as Rockie « la Braise », femme entretenue
- Hard Boiled Ones as Josette
- 4XD as Self
- L'Été en hiver as Diane, the Actress Wife
1963
- People in Luck as Jacqueline (segment "Le Vison")
- Squeak-squeak as Patricia Monestier
1962
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments as Une amie de Mauricette
- Virginie as Brigitte
1961
- Hauteclaire as Hauteclaire Stassin
- ¿Pena de muerte? as Lina
- The New Aristrocrats as Milou Rivoire
- Please, Not Now! as Marie-Jeanne
- To Die of Love as Mariette, Maid
1960
- Trapped by Fear as Maïa
- La grande bretèche as Jane