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Catherine Deneuve, orig. Catherine Dorléac, (born Oct. 22, 1943, Paris, France), French film actress. She appeared in films from age 13 and won fame with her role in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). Her cool blond beauty and skillful portrayals in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) and Luis Buñuel’s Belle de jour (1967) and Tristana (1970) made her an international star. Her numerous other films include The Last Metro (1980), Indochine (1992), 8 Women (2002), Standing Tall (2015), and The Midwife (2017).

acting Summary

Acting, the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a fictional character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television. (Read Lee Strasberg’s 1959 Britannica essay on acting.) Acting is generally agreed to be a matter less of mimicry, exhibitionism, or

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Film, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film