Catherine Deneuve
Biography
Catherine Deneuve is a French actress who made her screen debut in 1957 and became a major figure of the New Wave. Born in Paris to stage actors, she first gained stardom with Jacques Demy's musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), followed by acclaimed roles as aloof, mysterious beauties in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour (1967), the latter earning her a BAFTA nomination. She won a César for François Truffaut's The Last Metro (1980) and the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Place Vendôme (1998), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Indochine (1992). To English-speaking audiences she is best known for The Hunger (1983). Her later work includes Dancer in the Dark (2000), the voice of Marjane Satrapi's mother in Persepolis (2007), Potiche (2010), and The Midwife (2017). She has also received honorary awards including a Cannes Palme d'Or and a Venice Golden Lion.
82years old
Turns 83 on October 22in 10 days
- Born 17th arrondissement of Paris
- Star sign: LibraLast day of the sign, on the Scorpio cusp
- Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (birth name)Also credited as Catherine Fabienne Dorleac and Catherine Dorléac
Movie Career
- Films
- 46
- Career span
- 60 years1964 to 2024
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First role
Deneuve was 13 when she first appeared on screen in 1957. The film itself had been shot a year earlier, when she was only 12.
Big break
Jacques Demy cast Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg after seeing her in L'Homme à femmes, and the film brought her to stardom.
Catherine Deneuve movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Emmanuelle Bercot directed three of these films, Jacques Demy two and Arnaud Desplechin two. Two actors appear in six of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Gérard Depardieu's page
Chiara Mastroianni's page
Michel Piccoli's page
Marcello Mastroianni's page
Mia Farrow's page
Hippolyte Girardot's page
All films by Jacques Demy
All films by Arnaud Desplechin
Also three films together1 more actor
- Roman PolanskiRoman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2012), Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là (2010) and Repulsion (1965)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Catherine Deneuve's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$195 million
18 of the 46 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 46 films: 18 worldwide figure; 10 us gross only; 18 figure not found.
- 18Worldwide figure
- 10US gross only
- 18Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 84% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$40M20.6% of the total
- 2$30M15.2% of the total
- 3$27M13.9% of the total
- 4$23M11.7% of the total
- 5$16M8.1% of the total
- 6$10M5.3% of the total
- 7$10M5.2% of the total
- 8$7.6M3.9% of the total
$31.3 millionfrom the other 10 films with a worldwide figure, 16% of the total
Awards
Twelve awards and honors from 1981 to 2023, three of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin Film Festival | |||
| 2002 | Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution | Won | |
| Venice Film Festival | |||
| 2022 | Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement | Won | |
| 1998 | Volpi Cup for Best Actress | Place Vendôme | Won |
| Other honors | |||
| 2023 | Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class | Won | |
| 2018 | Praemium Imperiale | Won | |
| 2013 | European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award | Won | |
| 2012 | Stanislavsky Award | Won | |
| 2005 | Honorary Palme d'Or | Honorary | |
| 1998 | Honorary Golden Bear | Honorary | |
| 1996 | Honorary Lumière Award | Honorary | |
| 1993 | César Award for Best Actress | Indochine | Won |
| 1981 | César Award for Best Actress | The Last Metro | Won |
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