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.

Filmography

• 2011The Great Restaurant II — The Client Who Doesn't Want to Age
• Infrarouge — Self - Presenter, Director
• 2005Une vie classée X — Director
• Frank Riva — Catherine Sinclair
• Le Bleu de l’Océan — Patricia
• 1998La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes — Marion
• 1997L'ami de mon fils — Louise
• 1997Ni vue ni connue — Nicole Garrel
• 1997Sapho — Fanny
• Terre indigo — Clélia Debarbera
• Les Yeux d'Hélène — Hélène Charrière
• Les Cœurs brûlés — Hélène Charrière
• 1989The Savage — Director
• 1984New Year's Eve At Bob's — Madeleine
• 1983Love Lies — Catherine, Writer
• 1982Jamais avant le mariage — Elisabeth
• 1981For a Cop's Hide — La Grande sauterelle (uncredited)
• 1978The Small Timers — Annie Garmiche
• 1977Death of a Corrupt Man — Françoise
• 1977The Hurried Man — Edwige De Bois-Rosé
• 1977The Passengers — Nicole
• 1976The Probability Factor — Charlotte
• 1975The Pink Telephone — Christine, la call-girl de Mme Claude
• 1974Borsalino and Co. — Prostitute in the Street (uncredited)
• 1974Icy Breasts — Peggy Lister
• 1974OK Patron — Mélissa
• 1974Tell Me You Love Me — Victoire Danois
• 1974The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe — Christine
• 1973Man in the Trunk — Françoise
• 1973Where There's Smoke — Olga Leroy
• 1972The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe — Christine
• 1972There Once Was a Cop — Christine alias Françoise
• 1972Vagabond Humor
• 1971Fantasia Among the Squares — Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo"
• 1971Troubleshooters — Carla
• 1970Borsalino — Prostitute (uncredited)
• 1970She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks — Francine
• 1970The Love Mates — Agatha
• 1969Jeff — Eva
• 1969Monte Carlo or Bust! — Marie-Claude
• 1968Summit — Annie
• 1967Casino Royale — Jag (uncredited)
• 1967Sorrel Flower — Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre
• 1967The Big Grasshopper — Salène
• 1967The Blonde from Peking — Christine Olsen
• 1967Weekend — Corinne Durand
• 1966Balearic Caper — Polly
• 1966Galia — Galia
• 1966Let's Not Get Angry — Églantine Michalon
• 1966The Upper Hand — Lili Princesse
• 1966À belles dents — Eva Ritter
• 1965How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning — Marie Truchet, dite Héloïse (sketchs "La Fermeture" et "Les Bons Vivants")
• 1964Dandelions by the Roots — Rockie
• 1964Hard Boiled Ones — Josette
• 1964L'Été en hiver — Diane, the Actress Wife
• 1964Male Hunt — Georgina
• 1964Monsieur — Suzanne, Former Maid of Monsieur
• 1964The Great Spy Chase — Amaranthe
• 1963People in Luck — Jacqueline (segment "Le Vison")
• 1963Squeak-squeak — Patricia Monestier
• 1962The Devil and the Ten Commandments — Une amie de Mauricette
• 1962Virginie — Brigitte
• 1961Hauteclaire — Hauteclaire Stassin
• 1961Please, Not Now! — Marie-Jeanne
• 1961The New Aristrocrats — Milou Rivoire
• 1961To Die of Love — Mariette, Maid
• 1961¿Pena de muerte? — Lina
• 1960La grande bretèche — Jane
• 1960Trapped by Fear — Maïa

Appearances as themselves (31)

• 2020Le Terminus des prétentieux — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes... — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Mireille Darc, la femme libre — Self (archive footage)
• 2017À la recherche de... Pierre Richard — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• 2015Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite — Self
• 2015Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit — Self
• 2013Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son — Self
• 2013Mireille Darc, blessures intimes — Self
• 2012Lino, il n'était que lui-même — Self
• C à vous — Self
• 2005Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre — Self
• 2002Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• Vivement dimanche prochain — Self
• Stars 90 — Self
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• 1981Reporters — Self
• 30 millions d'amis — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Midi Première — Self
• Numéro un — Self
• Système 2 — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Samedi soir — Self
• Dim Dam Dom — Self
• 19644XD — Self
• La naissance du Grand Blond — Self