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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7751 |
| Birthday | 1938-05-15 |
| Place of Birth | Toulon, Var, France |
| Also Known As | Mireille Aigroz, |
1974
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
6.528/340
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1964
Male Hunt
6.4/33
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1961
Hauteclaire
2/1
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1964
The Great Spy Chase
6.83/158
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1967
Weekend
6.9/311
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1972
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
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1997
Sapho
0/0
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1966
Let's Not Get Angry
7.524/164
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1964
Monsieur
6.313/24
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1963
Squeak-squeak
6.798/186
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1963
People in Luck
5.5/31
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1969
Monte Carlo or Bust!
5.791/58
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1961
Please, Not Now!
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1967
Sorrel Flower
4.9/12
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1971
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1970
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6.1/61
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Death of a Corrupt Man
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1972
There Once Was a Cop
6/46
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1973
Man in the Trunk
6.3/60
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1971
Troubleshooters
6.3/37
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1967
The Big Grasshopper
6.2/18
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1966
The Upper Hand
6.307/44
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1976
The Probability Factor
3.6/12
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2013
Mireille Darc, blessures intimes
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
5.5/38
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The Love Mates
4.1/9
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1962
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
5.586/35
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1964
Dandelions by the Roots
5.4/49
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1974
Icy Breasts
5.7/65
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1975
The Pink Telephone
4.5/19
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
7/2
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Galia
4.8/12
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1984
New Year's Eve At Bob's
6.1/17
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1978
The Small Timers
5/2
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1967
The Blonde from Peking
5.5/19
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Trapped by Fear
6.5/13
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Where There's Smoke
5.8/6
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The Hurried Man
5.7/41
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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
7/2
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L'Été en hiver
8/1
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Jeff
4.8/9
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Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
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Balearic Caper
4.4/5
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1968
Summit
5.5/2
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1977
The Passengers
5.6/9
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1966
À belles dents
3.5/2
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1997
L'ami de mon fils
0/0
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2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
7/1
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1964
Hard Boiled Ones
3.5/2
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1982
Jamais avant le mariage
4/3
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Jamais avant le mariage
1974
Tell Me You Love Me
4.8/8
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1961
To Die of Love
3/1
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1983
Love Lies
2.8/4
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1972
Vagabond Humor
2/2
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1981
Reporters
6.9/9
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1964
4XD
10/1
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2015
Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit
8.7/3
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1974
OK Patron
5/5
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1961
The New Aristrocrats
1/1
Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do parents and their superficial society firends and the...
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The New Aristrocrats
1997
Ni vue ni connue
0/0
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1962
Virginie
0/0
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1961
¿Pena de muerte?
8/1
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2011
The Great Restaurant II
5.8/4
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2018
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
8/1
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1967
Casino Royale
5.25/814
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1970
Borsalino
6.884/242
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Borsalino
2012
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
6/1
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2015
Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
8/1
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1974
Borsalino and Co.
6.409/110
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1981
For a Cop's Hide
5.8/88
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2020
Le Terminus des prétentieux
7/2
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1998
La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes
0/0
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Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
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2002
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
7.5/2
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