Françoise Dorléac
Biography
Françoise Dorléac was a French actress who was born in Paris in 1942 and died in 1967. She worked as a model for Christian Dior before her first film, The Wolves in the Sheepfold (1960). After a series of French films and television parts, she became an international star with the female lead in Philippe de Broca's That Man from Rio (1964) opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo, and then appeared in François Truffaut's The Soft Skin (1964). She played an adulterous wife in the black comedy Cul-de-sac (1966), directed by Roman Polanski, and a starstruck singing twin in The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). Her last role was in Billion Dollar Brain (1967), playing the female lead alongside Michael Caine.
25years old at death
- Born 17th arrondissement of Paris
- Died Villeneuve-Loubet
- Star sign: AriesFirst day of the sign, on the Pisces cusp
- Françoise Paulette Louise Dorléac (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 46 years1964 to 2010
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A change of course
Dorléac first worked as a model for Christian Dior. She then appeared in her first film, The Wolves in the Sheepfold, released in 1960 and directed by Hervé Bromberger.
Big break
The female lead in Genghis Khan, an expensive Hollywood financed epic from 1965, was offered to Dorléac once That Man from Rio and Soft Skin had been seen widely internationally.
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