Delphine Seyrig

Delphine Seyrig is a Actrice French born the April 10th 1932 with Beirut (Lebanon), deceased the October 15th 1990 with Paris (France), at the 58 years age, continuations of a Lung cancer.

Biography

Antoine Doinel, in stolen Kisses , known as of the character interpreted by Delphine Seyrig: “It is not a woman, it is an appearance”. Delphine Seyrig finds in Alain Resnais and François Truffaut two realizers who, in some films, make it unforgettable, in particular by the stamp of her voice, which Michael Lonsdale compares with a Violoncelle.

His/her father was Archéologue and his mother Aventurière. She saw a happy childhood, plunges herself unconstrained in the books and as of sixteen years its first courses of Dramatic art with Pierre Bertin and Tania Balachova takes.

At twenty years, it takes down its first role, the Amour out of paper of Louis Ducreux.

Delphine plans to enter to the NPT, but its voice is considered to be too particular.

It leaves for Hollywood, and makes its first film, Pull My Daisy , of Robert Frank (photographer), (1958). In 1960 it returns to Paris, it plays One month in the countryside , of Ivan Tourgueniev, under the direction of André Barsacq with the Théâtre of the Workshop and meets Alain Resnais. He entrusts a key function in to him last Year with Marienbad . She knows a world notoriety at once. With the theater, she interprets Harold Pinter ( the Collection , the Lover ) and Peter Handke ( the Ride on the lake of Constancy ), generally under the direction of Claude Régy.

A. Resnais, in 1963, entrusts to him the role of Helene Aughain in Muriel, or the time of a return .

In 1968, under the direction of François Truffaut, it plays disconcerting the Fabienne Tabart of stolen Baisers . In this film hinge of the cycle Antoine Doinel, it is at the same time the incarnation of the romantic and inaccessible woman but also the representation of the realistic and main woman of its destiny.

To the cinema, it turns with the best: William Klein ( Who are you, Polly Maggoo? , 1966 and Mister Freedom , 1968); Marguerite Duras ( Musica , 1966, India Song , 1975 and Baxter, Vera Baxter , 1977); Joseph Losey ( Accident , 1967); Jacques Demy ( Skin of Ass , 1970); Shine Buñuel ( the Milky Way , 1969 and the discrete Charm of the middle-class , 1972); Chantal Akerman ( Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du trades, 1080 Brussels , 1975). She plays with Sami Frey in the film UFO the Newspaper of one committed suicide of Stanislas Stanojevic, selected with Cannes and Venice in 1972.

For the Television, she will interpret Mrs. de Mortsauf in the adaptation of the Lys in the valley turned by Marcel Cravenne in 1970.

Parallel to its artistic career, it carries out also, often with dimensions of Marguerite Duras, a life of militant.

It is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse to Paris.

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