Mireille Darc
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1938-05-15
Day of Death
2017-08-28 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Toulon, Var, France
Mireille Darc
Biography
Mireille Darc, who was born in 1938, was often compared to Brigitte Bardot. Her film career began in 1960 and she went on to make about 50 movies, including 1964’s Dandelion By The Roots which kicked off her work with Lautner. The pair would go on to make more than a dozen films together including The Great Spy Chase and 1967’s La Grande Sauterelle whose title also became her nickname.
She is perhaps most closely associated with Yves Robert’s 1972 comedy Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire in which she sported a now mythic backless dress. The movie was remade in English as The Man With One Red Shoe in 1985 and starring Tom Hanks.
Darc worked with Delon in such films as Jeff, L’Homme Pressé, Les Bons Vivants and Borsalino. The two were romantically involved for many years and reunited on stage in a 2007 Paris theater production of The Bridges Of Madison County.
Other directors she worked with included Edouard Molinaro, Jacques Deray, Roger Vadim and Jean-Luc Godard.
Darc took a break from film acting in the 1990s, working in several television series through the early 2000s. She also directed numerous documentaries for television.
Known For
Acting
(2020)
Le Terminus des prétentieux
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2015)
(2015)
(2013)
(2012)
(2011)
The Great Restaurant II
as The client who doesn't want to age
(2005)
(1998)
(1997)
Ni vue ni connue
as Nicole Garrel
(1997)
Sapho
as Fanny
(1997)
L'ami de mon fils
as Louise
(1984)
New Year's Eve At Bob's
as Madeleine
(1983)
Love Lies
as Catherine
(1982)
Jamais avant le mariage
as Elisabeth
(1981)
For a Cop's Hide
as La Grande sauterelle (uncredited)
(1981)
Reporters
as Self
(1978)
The Small Timers
as Annie Garmiche
(1977)
Death of a Corrupt Man
as Françoise
(1977)
The Hurried Man
as Edwige de Bois-Rosé
(1977)
The Passengers
as Nicole
(1976)
The Probability Factor
as Charlotte
(1975)
The Pink Telephone
as Christine, la call-girl de Mme Claude
(1974)
Borsalino and Co.
as Prostitute in the street (uncredited)
(1974)
(1974)
Icy Breasts
as Peggy Lister
(1974)
Tell Me You Love Me
as Victoire Danois
(1974)
OK Patron
as Mélissa
(1973)
Man in the Trunk
as Françoise
(1973)
Where There's Smoke
as Olga Leroy
(1972)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as Christine
(1972)
There Once Was a Cop
as Christine alias Françoise
(1972)
(1971)
Troubleshooters
as Carla
(1971)
Fantasia Among the Squares
as Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo"
(1970)
Borsalino
as Prostitute (uncredited)
(1970)
The Love Mates
as Agatha
(1970)
(1969)
Monte Carlo or Bust!
as Marie-Claude
(1969)
Jeff
as Eva
(1968)
Summit
as Annie
(1967)
Casino Royale
as Jag (uncredited)
(1967)
Weekend
as Corinne Durand
(1967)
The Blonde from Peking
as Christine Olsen
(1967)
The Big Grasshopper
as Salène
(1967)
Sorrel Flower
as Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre
(1966)
The Upper Hand
as Lili Princesse
(1966)
Let's Not Get Angry
as Églantine Michalon
(1966)
Balearic Caper
as Polly
(1966)
À belles dents
as Eva Ritter
(1966)
Galia
as Galia
(1965)
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
as Marie Truchet, aka 'Éloïse' (segment "Les Bons Vivants")
(1964)
Male Hunt
as Georgina
(1964)
Monsieur
as Suzanne, former maid of "Monsieur"
(1964)
The Great Spy Chase
as Amaranthe
(1964)
Dandelions by the Roots
as 'Rockie la Braise'
(1964)
Hard Boiled Ones
as Josette
(1964)
4XD
as Self
(1964)
L'Été en hiver
as Diane, the actress wife
(1963)
People in Luck
as Jacqueline (« Le Vison »)
(1963)
Squeak-squeak
as Patricia Monestier
(1962)
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Une amie de Mauricette
(1962)
Virginie
as Brigitte
(1961)
Please, Not Now!
as Marie-Jeanne
(1961)
The New Aristrocrats
as Milou Rivoire
(1961)
¿Pena de muerte?
as Lina
(1961)
Hauteclaire
as Hauteclaire Stassin
(1961)
To Die of Love
as Mariette, maid
(1960)
Trapped by Fear
as Maïa
(1960)
La grande bretèche
as Jane
Crew
(2005)
Une vie classée X
Director
(1989)
The Savage
Director
(1983)
Love Lies
Writer