fiction.wikisort.org - Actor

Nathalie Delon (born Francine Canovas, also known as Nathalie Barthélémy; 1 August 1941 – 21 January 2021) was a French actress, model, film director and writer.[1] In the 1960s, Nathalie was regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the world[2] and in the 1970s, she was known as French sex symbol. She is notable for her first acting role, appearing opposite her husband, actor Alain Delon, in the neo-noir film Le Samouraï directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (1967). She appeared in 30 films and directed two more.

Nathalie Delon
Born	Francine Canovas (1941-08-01)1 August 1941 Nice, France
Died	21 January 2021(2021-01-21) (aged 79) Paris, France
Occupation	actress model film director writer
Years active	1965–2010
Known for	Le Samouraï La leçon particulière When Eight Bells Toll Bluebeard
Height	1,65 m
Spouses	Guy Barthélémy ​ ​ (m. 1957; div. 1964)​ Alain Delon ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1969)​
Partner	Chris Blackwell (1978–1993)
Children	Nathalie Barthélémy Anthony Delon
Website	www.nathaliedelon.com

Early life

Francine Canovas was born on 1 August 1941 in Oujda, Morocco,[3][4] then under French Protectorate in Morocco, to a family of Italian-Spanish origin.[5] She was the daughter of Louis Canovas (1915–2003), pied-noir of Oran (Algeria), manager of a transport company in Morocco, who abandoned her at the age of eight months in 1942[6] and Antoinette Rodriguez, she was from Melilla.[7] She had a sister, Louisette.

Personal life

In 1957,[8] Nathalie married for the first time to a conscript from the north of France, Guy Barthélémy, who later become the signing officer of the Omnium Marocain d'Assurance. They lived in Morocco and had a daughter named Nathalie Barthélémy. They broke up in 1962 and she moved to Paris.[9] Their divorce was granted in July 1964.

In August 1962, Nathalie met the French actor Alain Delon at New Jimmy's, a Paris nightclub, and they began a secret relationship that night that lasted one year.[10] In May 1963, Nathalie accompanied Delon on the shooting of his new film La Tulipe Noire.[11] In April 1964 they had a great engagement and on 13 August 1964, Nathalie and Alain got married in the Loir-et-Cher. Their son, Anthony Delon, was born on September 30, 1964 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. They were one of the most glamorous and talked about couples of the '60s. In June 1968, Nathalie broke up with Delon.[12] The couple divorced on 14 February 1969. They collaborated on two films: Le Samouraϊ (while they were married) and Doucement les Basses (some years after their separation).

During the '60s and '70s she dated Bobby Keys, Marc Porel, Eddie Fisher, Renaud Verley, Louis Malle, Franco Nero, Jean Sorel and Helmut Berger, among many others.

Her greatest love was Chris Blackwell with whom she formed a couple for 15 years (1978–1993).

Career

In 1967, Nathalie became a film actress, starring opposite her husband in the film Le Samouraï by Jean-Pierre Melville, which became a hit.[5] Writing of the Delons' performances in Le Figaro, Bertrand Guyard notes husband and wife are both nearly silent but "their gazes, fraught with meaning, are enough to thrill the camera" with the director drawing from their portrayals "a mythical couple in the seventh art."[6]

Thereafter, Nathalie Delon continued her acting career until the 1980s. In 1971 she appeared in When Eight Bells Toll with Anthony Hopkins. In a review in The New York Times, critic Vincent Canby said her performance "evokes all the mystery and enchantment of Bella Darvi's performance as the physicist in Samuel Fuller's Hell and High Water."[13] In 1973, she appeared in Le Sex Shop, her turn one of the film's "moments of real pleasure" as one of its "really marvelous girls", Roger Greenspun wrote in The New York Times.[14]

In addition to acting in 30 films in her career, she also directed two, Ils appellent ça un accident [fr] (transl. They Call It an Accident) in 1982 and Sweet Lies in 1988. They Call It an Accident, which Delon directed and wrote, is the story of a mother whose son dies in surgery.[15]

Later life

In 2006, Delon published a memoir, Pleure pas, c'est pas grave (Don't cry, it's okay). Le Figaro described it as an account of a dark period in her life—her painful marriage to Delon and his infidelities, her descent into drug use—yet includes moments that made her laugh and the reader too by extension: "delicious and entertaining anecdotes".[16]

Nathalie Delon died at the age of 79, on 21 January 2021 in Paris, from pancreatic cancer.[17][18]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Ref.
1967	Le Samouraï	Jane Lagrange	Jean-Pierre Melville	With Alain Delon	[6]
1968	The Private Lesson	Frederique Dampierre	Michel Boisrond		[19]
1969	Le Sorelle	Diana	Roberto Malenotti		[20]
1969	La Main	Sylvie	Henri Glaeser		[19]
1969	Army of Shadows	a friend of Jean-François	Jean-Pierre Melville	Uncredited	[21]
1971	Doucement les basses (Easy Down There!)	Rita	Jacques Deray	With Alain Delon	[21]
1971	When Eight Bells Toll	Charlotte	Étienne Périer	With Anthony Hopkins	[13]
1972	Bluebeard	Erika	Edward Dmytryk	With Richard Burton	[22]
1972	Le Sex Shop	Jacqueline	Claude Berri		[14]
1972	Repeated Absences	Sophie	Guy Gilles		[19]
1972	The Monk	Mathilde	Ado Kyrou		[23]
1973	L'Histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot trousse-chemise	Bertrade	Nina Companéez		[19]
1973	Profession: Aventuriers	Marie Chapuis	Claude Mulot		[19]
1974	Vous intéressez-vous à la chose ?	Lise	Jacques Beratier		[24]
1974	Hold-Up – Atraco en la Costa Azul	Judy	Germán Lorente		[19]
1975	The Romantic Englishwoman	Miranda	Joseph Losey		[25]
1975	Docteur Justice	Karine	Christian-Jaque		[26]
1976	Une femme fidèle	Flora de Saint-Gilles	Roger Vadim		[3]
1976	Un sussurro nel buio (A Whisper in the Dark)	Camilla	Marcello Aiprandi		[19]
1977	Fire in the Water	as herself	Peter Whitehead	With Peter Whitehead	[27]
1977	L'avventurosa fuga: Gli ultimi angeli	Elisabetta	Enzo Doria		[28]
1978	The Man in the Rushes	Loraine	Manfred Purzer		[19]
1978	Seagulls Fly Low	Isabelle Michereau	Giorgio Cristallini		[29]
1978	Occhi dalle stelle (Eyes Behind the Stars)	Monica Stiles	Mario Gariazzo		[19]
1979	Le Temps des Vacances	Martine	Claude Vital		[19]
1980	La Bande du Rex	Janine	Jean-Henri Meunier		[19]
1982	Ils appellent ça un accident	Julie Fabre	Nathalie Delon	Also director and writer	[15]
1983	Pair-impairment		Carole Marquand	Short film	[19]
2008	Nuit de chien	Risso	Werner Schroeter		[30]
2009	Mensch	Liliane Hazak	Steve Suissa		[31]

Television

Television credits of Nathalie Delon

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Ref.
1965	Dim Dam Dom	Herself		TV serie documentary
1967	Dim Dam Dom	Herself		TV serie documentary
1968	Dim Dam Dom	Herself		TV serie documentary
1978	Madame le juge	Françoise Muller	Raymond Thévenet	Miniseries (6 episodes)	[32]
1979	Efficax	Hélène Chapel	Philippe Ducrest	Television film	[33]
1978-81	Histoires de voyous	Irène	Pierre Goutas	9 episodes	[34]

Publications

Novel

• Au plus fort de l'orage : roman (in French). Paris: R. Laffont. 1994. ISBN 978-2221075630.

Memoir

• Pleure pas, c'est pas grave : souvenirs (in French). Groupe Flammarion. 2006. ISBN 978-2-08-123399-7. OCLC 937870010.

References

External links

• Nathalie Delon at IMDb 
• Nathalie Delon discography at Discogs
• Portraits of Nathalie Delon at the National Portrait Gallery, London

На других языках

---

[de] Nathalie Delon

Nathalie Delon (* 1. August 1941 als Francine Canovas in Oujda im damaligen Protektorat Französisch-Marokko; † 21. Januar 2021 in Paris[1]) war eine französische Schauspielerin und Regisseurin.

---

- [en] Nathalie Delon

---

[ru] Делон, Натали

Натал́и Дело́н (фр. Nathalie Delon; настоящее имя Франсин Канова (Francine Canovas), по первому мужу Бартелеми (Barthelemy); 1 августа 1941, Уджда, Марокко — 21 января 2021, Париж, Франция) — французская актриса и режиссёр. Вторая жена Алена Делона и его единственная официальная супруга, мать Энтони Делона[6].

---

---