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Mireille Darc

Mireille Darc

Birthday: 1938-05-15 | Place of Birth: Toulon, Var, France

Mireille Darc, who was born in 1938, was often compared to Brigitte Bardot. Her film career began in 1960 and she went on to make about 50 movies, including 1964’s Dandelion By The Roots which kicked off her work with Lautner. The pair would go on to make more than a dozen films together including The Great Spy Chase and 1967’s La Grande Sauterelle whose title also became her nickname. She is perhaps most closely associated with Yves Robert’s 1972 comedy Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire in which she sported a now mythic backless dress. The movie was remade in English as The Man With One Red Shoe in 1985 and starring Tom Hanks. Darc worked with Delon in such films as Jeff, L’Homme Pressé, Les Bons Vivants and Borsalino. The two were romantically involved for many years and reunited on stage in a 2007 Paris theater production of The Bridges Of Madison County. Other directors she worked with included Edouard Molinaro, Jacques Deray, Roger Vadim and Jean-Luc Godard. Darc took a break from film acting in the 1990s, working in several television series through the early 2000s. She also directed numerous documentaries for television.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1981
Reporters

as    Self

1977
Death of a Corrupt Man

as    Françoise

1975
The Pink Telephone

as    Christine

1973
Man in the Trunk

as    Françoise

1972
1971
Fantasia chez les ploucs

as    Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo"

1969
Jeff

as    Eva

1969
Monte Carlo or Bust!

as    Marie-Claude

1968
Weekend

as    Corinne Durand

1967
Sorrel Flower

as    Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre

1967
The Big Grasshopper

as    Salène

1966
Balearic Caper

as    Polly

1964
Monsieur

as    Suzanne, l'ex-femme de chambre de "Monsieur"

1963
Pouic-Pouic

as    Patricia Monestier

1961
Please, Not Now!

as    Marie-Jeanne