Seyrig, Delphine |
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BORN 10 May 1932, Beirut - DIED 15 Oct 1990, Paris BIRTH NAME Seyrig, Delphine Claire Belriane CAUSE OF DEATH lung disease GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Cimetière du Montparnasse, 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet (division 15) |
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Delphine Seyrig was born in Lebanon as the daughter of the director of the Beirut Archaeological Institute. Her brother was the composer Francis Seyrig. She moved to New York with her family when she was ten years old. She studied acting at the Comédie de Saint-Étienne and in New York at the Actors Studio. Her first movie part was in "Pull my Daisy" in 1958. Her appearance in "Last Year at Marienbad" (1961) made her famous. She played ordinary women as well as femme fatales in movies by Truffaut, Losey and Bunuel. She was a convinced feminist and in 1973 she was one of the 343 women who openly declared they had an abortion, at that time still illegal in France. Also in 1973 she was Colette de Montpelier in "The Day of the Jackal". In 1982 she was a founding member of the Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir in Paris. She died in 1990 in Paris. Related persons • was directed by Truffaut, François |
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 The grave of Delphine Seyrig at the Cimetière Montparnasse, Paris. Picture by Androom (18 Feb 2016) |
Sources • Cullen, Catherine, Paris, The Woman's Travel Guide, Virago Press, London, 1993 • Delphine Seyrig - Wikipedia (EN) |
