
Mireille Darc
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.
97 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 97

Champs-Elysées
1982

Sacrée soirée
1987

Vivement dimanche
1998

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Midi Première
1975

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Numéro un
1975

C à vous
2009
Midi trente
1972
Samedi soir
1971

Infrarouge
2006

Nulle part ailleurs
1987

Stars 90
1990
Système 2
1975

30 millions d'amis
1976

Casino Royale
1967

Vivement dimanche prochain
1998

Dim Dam Dom
1965

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972

Death of a Corrupt Man
1977

Weekend
1967

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974

Borsalino and Co.
1974

Borsalino
1970

Les Yeux d'Hélène
1994

For a Cop's Hide
1981

The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962

Terre indigo
1996

Les Cœurs brûlés
1992

The Great Spy Chase
1964

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017

Squeak-squeak
1963

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970

Frank Riva
2003

Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969

Male Hunt
1964

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965

Please, Not Now!
1961

There Once Was a Cop
1972

Le Bleu de l’Océan
2003

Icy Breasts
1974

The Pink Telephone
1975

Monsieur
1964

Dandelions by the Roots
1964

Let's Not Get Angry
1966

Trapped by Fear
1960

Reporters
1981

Galia
1966

The Probability Factor
1976

Summit
1968

Mireille Darc, la femme libre
2018

People in Luck
1963

The Hurried Man
1977

The Blonde from Peking
1967

Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit
2015

Troubleshooters
1971

The Upper Hand
1966

Man in the Trunk
1973

Fantasia Among the Squares
1971

Hard Boiled Ones
1964

Love Lies
1983

Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013

Sorrel Flower
1967

Balearic Caper
1966

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002

Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
2019

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019

Hauteclaire
1961

Jeff
1969

Vagabond Humor
1972

New Year's Eve At Bob's
1984

The Big Grasshopper
1967

The Passengers
1977

The Great Restaurant II
2011

OK Patron
1974

Sapho
1997

À belles dents
1966

Where There's Smoke
1973

Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
2015

L'Été en hiver
1964

The Love Mates
1970
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
2012

The Small Timers
1978

Ni vue ni connue
1997

Virginie
1962

Le Terminus des prétentieux
2020

To Die of Love
1961

Jamais avant le mariage
1982

The New Aristrocrats
1961

La grande bretèche
1960

La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes
1998

¿Pena de muerte?
1961

L'ami de mon fils
1997

Tell Me You Love Me
1974

4XD
1964

Mireille Darc, blessures intimes
2013

