Mireille Darc
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.
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Known for
Midi Première
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Le Grand Échiquier
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People in Luck
Jacqueline (segment "Le Vison")
Infrarouge
Self - Presenter
Numéro un
Self
Casino Royale
Jag (uncredited)
Summit
Annie
Vagabond Humor
Stars 90
Self
Borsalino and Co.
Prostitute in the Street (uncredited)
Midi trente
Self
Tell Me You Love Me
Victoire Danois
30 millions d'amis
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Balearic Caper
Polly
Squeak-squeak
Patricia Monestier
The Pink Telephone
Christine, la call-girl de Mme Claude
Man in the Trunk
Françoise
The Hurried Man
Edwige de Bois-Rosé
Système 2
Self
¿Pena de muerte?
Lina
Sorrel Flower
Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Marie-Claude
Borsalino
Prostitute (uncredited)
Jeff
Eva
Dim Dam Dom
Self
À belles dents
Eva Ritter
Male Hunt
Georgina
The Love Mates
Agatha
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
Self (archive footage)
The Great Spy Chase
Amaranthe
The Passengers
Nicole
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Actress (archive footage)
For a Cop's Hide
La Grande sauterelle (uncredited)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Christine
Galia
Galia
Le Terminus des prétentieux
Self (archive footage)
Weekend
Corinne Durand
Reporters
Self
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Marie Truchet, dite Héloïse (sketchs "La Fermeture" et "Les Bons Vivants")
Frank Riva
Catherine Sinclair
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Christine
Monsieur
Suzanne, Former Maid of Monsieur
Death of a Corrupt Man
Françoise
Icy Breasts
Peggy Lister
Please, Not Now!
Marie-Jeanne
New Year's Eve At Bob's
Madeleine
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Une amie de Mauricette
Jamais avant le mariage
Elisabeth
To Die of Love
Mariette, Maid
4XD
Self
Les Cœurs brûlés
Hélène Charrière
Trapped by Fear
Maïa
Terre indigo
Clélia Debarbera
Fantasia Among the Squares
Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo"
The Great Restaurant II
The Client Who Doesn't Want to Age
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Self
Les Yeux d'Hélène
Hélène Charrière
The Blonde from Peking
Christine Olsen
The Upper Hand
Lili Princesse
Let's Not Get Angry
Églantine Michalon
There Once Was a Cop
Christine alias Françoise
Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
Self
Dandelions by the Roots
Rockie « la Braise », femme entretenue
Troubleshooters
Carla
La grande bretèche
Jane
The Big Grasshopper
Salène
Ni vue ni connue
Nicole Garrel
Le Bleu de l’Océan
Patricia
Hauteclaire
Hauteclaire Stassin
OK Patron
Mélissa
The Probability Factor
Charlotte
Where There's Smoke
Olga Leroy
The New Aristrocrats
Milou Rivoire
Sapho
Fanny
Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit
Self
The Small Timers
Annie Garmiche
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Self (archive footage)
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Francine
Love Lies
Catherine
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
Self
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Self
La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes
Marion
Virginie
Brigitte
Hard Boiled Ones
Josette
L'Été en hiver
Diane, the Actress Wife
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Self
L'ami de mon fils
Louise
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
Self (archive footage)
Mireille Darc, blessures intimes
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Champs-Elysées
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Vivement dimanche
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Sacrée Soirée
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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Samedi soir
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C à vous
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Nulle part ailleurs
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Vivement dimanche prochain
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