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Delphine Seyrig

Actress / Film Director / Stage Actress / Film Actress | * 04/10/1932 († 58, 10/15/1990) | Beirut (Lebanon)
Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig (French: [sɛʁiɡ]; 10 April 1932 – 15 October 1990) was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She came to prominence in Alain Resnais's 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, and later acted in films by Chantal Akerman, Luis Buñuel, Marguerite Duras, Ulrike Ottinger, Francois Truffaut, and Fred Zinneman. She directed three films, including Sois belle et tais-toi (1981). ()

Delphine Seyrig (April 10, 1932 – October 15, 1990) was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She became active in the feminist movement in the 1970s along with filmmakers Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, and Ulrike Ottinger. In 1975, Seyrig joined forces with Carole Roussopoulos and Ioana Wieder to form the collective Les Insoumuses (The Resistant Muses) and produced videos that became an emancipatory tool and medium of political activism.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Documentaries

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A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily ro ...

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

NR

1976 | 3.7/5 | 3h 22min
Drama
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In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and i ...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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1972 | 3.8/5 | 1h 41min
Comedy
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An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail. ...

The Day of the Jackal

PG

1973 | 3.8/5 | 2h 23min
Action, Thriller
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The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands ...

Stolen Kisses

R

1968 | 3.7/5 | 1h 30min
Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Delphine Seyrig

Volpi Cup for Best Actress 2x César Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Delphine Seyrig as Actress(64)

as Self (archive footage)2020 Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
as Self (archive footage)2020 Delphine and Carole
as Self (voice)2019 Black Sun
as Self [archive footage]2014 Duras and Cinema
as (archive footage)2007 J'aime
as Self (archive footage)2000 Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
as Self (archive footage)1998 In and Out of Fashion
as Catherine Bertram1990 La bête dans la jungle
as Lady Windermere1989 Joan of Arc of Mongolia
as Marie-Claude Poitevin1986 The Discoveries of a Modern Couple
as Kabuki Theatre Lady (segment "Pride")1986 Seven Women, Seven Sins
as Aurelia Plath1986 Letters Home
as Jeanne1986 Golden Eighties
as herself1984 The Colour of Words
as Dr. Mabuse / Grand Inquisitor of Seville1984 Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
as Solange1983 Grain of Sand
as La mère1981 Le petit Pommier
as The Lady1981 The Man of Destiny
as Delphine (voice)1981 Documenteur
as Self - Interviewer1981 Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Helena Müller, als Lebensbaumgöttin, Kaufhausonsängerin, Mutter der Wundergeburt, Helena-Maya, Siame1981 Freak Orlando
as Mathilde1980 The Lost Way
as Yvette1980 I Sent a Letter to My Love
as Barbara1979 On the Move
as L'inconnue1977 Baxter, Vera Baxter
as Julie1977 Location Hunting
as herself1976 Scum Manifesto
as Anne-Marie Stretter1976 Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
as Jeanne Dielman1976 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
as Adriana Vivanti1976 Dear Michele
as Simone1975 The Last Word
as Aloïse (adulte)1975 Aloïse
as Anne-Marie Stretter1975 India Song
as Self (archive footage)1975 Autour de Jeanne Dielman
as herself1975 Maso and Miso Go Boating
as Kate1975 The Garden That Tilts
as Narrator / Inês Etienne Romeu1974 Inês
as Mme Bunkermann1974 Cry of the Heart
as Françoise Berger, la mère1974 Say it with Flowers
as Ceil Burrows1974 The Black Windmill
as Colette de Montpellier1973 The Day of the Jackal
as L'interprète1973 Diary of a Suicide
as Kristine Linde1973 A Doll's House
as Mme Thevenot1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
as Countess Elizabeth Báthory1971 Daughters of Darkness
as Elmire1971 Tartuffe
as La fée1970 Donkey Skin
as Madame de Mortsauf1970 Le Lys dans la vallée
as Marie-Madeline1969 Mr. Freedom
as The Prostitute1969 The Milky Way
1969 El vientre de la ballena
as Narrator (voice)1968 Spray of the Days
as Fabienne Tabard1968 Stolen Kisses
as Her1967 La Musica
as Francesca1967 Accident
as Hedda Gabler1967 Hedda Gabler
as Natalia Petrovna1966 Un mois à la campagne
as Une rédactrice1966 Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
as La maîtresse (F 2)1966 Comédie
as Alice1965 Qui donc a rêvé ?
as Hélène Aughain1963 Muriel, or the Time of Return
as Catherine Miller1963 Le Troisième Concerto
as A – the brunette woman1961 Last Year at Marienbad
as Milo's Wife1959 Pull My Daisy

TV Shows/Series with Delphine Seyrig as Actress(4)

as herself1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as herself1965 Dim Dam Dom
as Michele Martin1960 Pete and Gladys
as Betty Durham1954 Sherlock Holmes

Movies with Delphine Seyrig as Crew(7)

Writing/Screenplay1986 Letters Home
Directing/Director1981 Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Production/Producer1981 Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Directing/Director1976 Scum Manifesto
Directing/Director1975 Maso and Miso Go Boating
Directing/Director1974 Inês
Writing/Writer1974 Inês

Full Name: Delphine Seyrig
Citizenship: France
Born: Sunday, 04/10 1932 (April) in Beirut (Lebanon)
Died: Monday, 10/15 1990 (October) in 10th arrondissement of Paris (aged: 58)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Languages: French (FR)
Educated at: Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International
Spouses (current/former): Jack Youngerman
Children: Duncan Youngerman
Siblings: Francis Seyrig
Father: Henry Seyrig
Mother: Hermine de Saussure
Related to: Théophile Seyrig
Other names for Delphine Seyrig (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Beltiane"
"Delphine Claire Belriane Seyrig"
"델핀 세리그"
"Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig"
Delphine Seyrig frequently works together with these people:
Marguerite Duras (15x, Crew)
Ulrike Ottinger (14x, Crew)
Chantal Akerman (12x, Crew)
Liliane de Kermadec (10x, Crew)
Sami Frey (9x, Actor)
Michael Lonsdale (8x, Actor)
William Klein (8x, Crew)
Luis Buñuel (7x, Crew)
Éliane Marcus (7x, Crew)
Jean-Claude Carrière (5x, Crew)
Carole Roussopoulos (5x, Crew)
Serge Gainsbourg (3x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:12645, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/12/2024