Danielle Darrieux

Danielle Darrieux is the kind of screen legend who makes you quietly reconsider what a "career" even means. She started making films in 1931 — when sound cinema was barely a toddler — and was still working into her nineties, racking up more than 110 credits across eight decades. Born in Bordeaux in 1917, she had this effortless, warm intelligence on screen that aged beautifully with her; you can feel it whether she's the luminous ingénue in The Earrings of Madame de… or the world-weary matriarch decades later. The French establishment rewarded her handsomely — Honorary César, Silver Bear, Commander of the Legion of Honour — but honestly the real flex is outliving the entire studio system that made her famous and dying at 100 in 2017. That's not just longevity; that's history walking around in a silk scarf.

Name (English)

Danielle Darrieux

Name (Japanese)

ダニエル・ダリュー

Reading

だにえる・だりゅー

Born

May 1, 1917 – October 17, 2017

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Snake

Origin

Bordeaux, France

Height

2 cm

Occupation

singer / stage actor / film actor / actor / musician

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Commander of the Legion of Honour
• 2002 Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
• 1985 Honorary César
• Officer of Arts and Letters
• 2002 European Film Award for Best Actress
• César Award
• Molière Award for Best Actress

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC

Tags

• singer
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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