Acting
Mireille Darc
FR, EN, IT, ES cinema · 78 credits
Born
15 May 1938
Died
28 August 2017 (aged 79)
Birthplace
Toulon, Var, France
Also known as Mireille Aigroz · Мирей Кристиан Габриэл Эме Эгроз
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. Source: Article "Mireille Darc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Filmography
Le Terminus des prétentieux
as Self (archive footage)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
as Self (archive footage)
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
as Self (archive footage)
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
as Self (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Great Restaurant II
as The Client Who Doesn't Want to Age
Une vie classée X
Director
Sapho
as Fanny
L'ami de mon fils
as Louise
Ni vue ni connue
as Nicole Garrel
The Savage
Director
New Year's Eve At Bob's
as Madeleine
Love Lies
as Catherine, Writer
Jamais avant le mariage
as Elisabeth
Reporters
as Self
For a Cop's Hide
as La Grande sauterelle (uncredited)
The Small Timers
as Annie Garmiche
Death of a Corrupt Man
as Françoise
The Hurried Man
as Edwige De Bois-Rosé
The Passengers
as Nicole
The Probability Factor
as Charlotte
The Pink Telephone
as Christine, la call-girl de Mme Claude
Icy Breasts
as Peggy Lister
Tell Me You Love Me
as Victoire Danois
OK Patron
as Mélissa
Borsalino and Co.
as Prostitute in the Street (uncredited)
Man in the Trunk
as Françoise
Where There's Smoke
as Olga Leroy
There Once Was a Cop
as Christine alias Françoise
Fantasia Among the Squares
as Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo"
Troubleshooters
as Carla
The Love Mates
as Agatha
Borsalino
as Prostitute (uncredited)
Monte Carlo or Bust!
as Marie-Claude
Jeff
as Eva
Summit
as Annie
Weekend
as Corinne Durand
Sorrel Flower
as Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre
The Big Grasshopper
as Salène
The Blonde from Peking
as Christine Olsen
Casino Royale
as Jag (uncredited)
Let's Not Get Angry
as Églantine Michalon
The Upper Hand
as Lili Princesse
Galia
as Galia
Balearic Caper
as Polly
À belles dents
as Eva Ritter
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
as Marie Truchet, dite Héloïse (sketchs "La Fermeture" et "Les Bons Vivants")
Male Hunt
as Georgina
The Great Spy Chase
as Amaranthe
Monsieur
as Suzanne, Former Maid of Monsieur
Dandelions by the Roots
as Rockie
L'Été en hiver
as Diane, the Actress Wife
Hard Boiled Ones
as Josette
4XD
as Self
Squeak-squeak
as Patricia Monestier
People in Luck
as Jacqueline (segment "Le Vison")
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Une amie de Mauricette
Virginie
as Brigitte
Hauteclaire
as Hauteclaire Stassin
Please, Not Now!
as Marie-Jeanne
To Die of Love
as Mariette, Maid
The New Aristrocrats
as Milou Rivoire
¿Pena de muerte?
as Lina
Trapped by Fear
as Maïa