By Clarice Burger
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (UK: /dəˈnɜːv/, US: /dəˈnʊv/, French: [katʁin dənœv] ⓘ), is a French actress. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
Deneuve made her screen debut in 1957 at age 13, in a film shot the previous year when she was only 12. A major figure of the New Wave, she became, like Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon, one of the best-known French artists in the world. In a career spanning nearly 70 years, she has played more than a hundred roles and is recognized in France and internationally for being one of the key faces of the musical film genre with appearances in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Donkey Skin, 8 Women and The Beloved. Early in her career, she gained acclaim for her portrayals of aloof and mysterious beauties while working for well-known directors such as Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Roman Polanski, and Agnès Varda. She played in films attracting a total of nearly 99 million spectators in theaters, making her the working actress with the most admissions in France. In 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, France’s national symbol of liberty.
She has received numerous accolades over her career including a César Award for The Last Metro and the Venice Film Festival‘s Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Place Vendôme, as well as nominations for an Academy Award for Indochine and a BAFTA Award for Belle de Jour. To English-speaking audiences, Deneuve is best known for The Hunger. Her other notable films include Repulsion, The April Fools, Scene of the Crime and My Favorite Season. She has received honorary awards, including the Berlin International Film Festival‘s Golden Bear in 1998, the Cannes Film Festival‘s Honorary Palme d’Or in 2005, and the Venice Film Festival‘s Golden Lion in 2022.
Besides her native French, Deneuve speaks fluent Italian and English, and has some knowledge of Spanish. Her hobbies and passions include gardening, drawing, photography, reading, music, cinema, fashion, antiques and decoration. According to a 1996 The New York Times article, she is a practicing Roman Catholic.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Jean Grolier (bibliophile) –
- Paul Cezanne (painter) –
- Pretty Boy Floyd (gangster) –
- Pablo Casals (cellist and composer; died in San Juan, Puerto Rico) –
- Nadia Boulanger (pianist) –
- Richard Helms (headed the CIA for 6 years before President Nixon fired him for refusing to block an FBI probe into the Watergate scandal) –
- Soupy Sales (American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, and jazz aficionado) –
Born
- Sarah Bernhardt (actress) –
- N. C. Wyeth (illustrator) –
- John Reed (journalist) –
- George Wells Beadle (geneticist) –
- Joan Fontaine (actress) –
- Doris Lessing (author) –
- Timothy Leary (educator) –
- Donald H. Peterson (astronaut) –
- Christopher Lloyd (actor) –
- Tony Roberts (actor) –
- Annette Funicello (actress) –
- Catherine Deneuve (actress) –
- Jeff Goldblum (actor) –
- Brian Boitano (figure skater) –
- Jonathan Lipnicki (actor) –
Events
- The College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, was granted its charter by the royal governor of NJ –
- Andre Jacques Garnerin, French aeronaut and inventor of the parachute, made first parachute jump from a balloon, at height of 2,000 feet –
- First national horse show opened in New York City –
- New York’s original Metropolitan Opera House opened with a performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust –
- Chester Carlson produced the first xerographic copy –
- Percy L. Julian, Edwin W. Meyer, and Norman C. Krause received patent for cortisone –
- Margaret Meagher became Canada’s first female ambassador (to Israel) –
- Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, rejected the Nobel Prize for literature –
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the sweetner aspartame for tabletop use –
- The Kwanzaa U.S. postage stamp was first issued; Synthia Saint James did the artwork. –
- Fisherman caught a rare purple lobster off the coast of Winter Harbor, Maine –
Weather
- Los Angeles, California, hit 100 degrees F –
- San Diego, California, reached 104 degrees F –
- Vermont received 4-5 inches of snow, the most in October in 43 years –
- Portland, Maine, received 10.53 inches of rain in 24 hours –
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