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Belle may refer to:

Aircraft[link]

• Memphis Belle (aircraft), a World War II bomber

Businesses[link]

• Belle Baby Carriers, a U.S. baby carrier manufacturer
• Belle International, a Chinese footwear retailer

Computers and software[link]

• Belle (chess machine), an early chess computer
• Southern Belle (video game), a 1985 computer game
• Belle, the current version of Nokia's Symbian mobile operating system

Fictional characters[link]

• Belle (Disney), a fictional character from the Disney film Beauty and the Beast
• Belle (Peanuts), a fictional character from the comic strip Peanuts
• Belle Black, a fictional character from the American soap opera Days of our Lives
• Belle Dingle, a fictional character from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
• Belle Taylor, a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away

Film[link]

• Belle (1973 film), a 1973 Belgian-French drama film directed by André Delvaux
• Belle de Jour (film), a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve
• Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a 1944 documentary film about the famed World War II bomber Memphis Belle and crew on its final mission
• Memphis Belle (film), a 1990 fictionalized film inspired by the 1944 documentary about the bomber Memphis Belle

Literature[link]

• Belle (magazine), an Australian design magazine
• Belle et Sébastien, a French children's novel by Cécile Aubry

Music and musical theater[link]

• Belle (album), a 2011 album by New Zealand singer-song writer Bic Runga
• "Belle" (song), a 1998 song by Patrick Fiori, Daniel Lavoie and Garou
• Belle & Sebastian, Scottish pop group named after the French children's story Belle et Sébastien
• Belle (musical), a 1961 musical, alternatively titled The Ballad of Dr Crippen after Hawley Harvey Crippen
• "Belle", an Academy Award nominated song from the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast
• "Belle", a 1977 song written by Al Green, Fred Jordan and Reuben Fairfax, Jr.

People[link]

• Southern belle, a refined woman from the southern United States
• Alexis Simon Belle (1674–1734), French portrait artist
• Albert Belle (born 1966), American baseball player
• Camilla Belle (born 1986), American actress
• David Belle (born 1973), French actor
• Lexi Belle (born 1987), American pornographic actor
• Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), American author
• Belle Baker (1893–1957), American singer and actress
• Belle Baranceanu (1902–1988), American artist
• Belle Benchley (1882–1973), American director of the San Diego Zoo from 1927 to 1953,
• Belle Bennett (1891–1932), American stage and screen actress
• Belle Chrystall (1910–2003), British actress
• Belle Cole (1845–1905), American singer
• Belle Cooledge (1884–1855), American politician, first female mayor of Sacramento, California
• Belle Kinney Scholz (1890–1959), Euro-American sculptor
• Belle Goshorn MacCorkle (1841–1923), American former First Lady of West Virginia
• Belle Gunness (1859–1908), Norwegian-American female serial killer
• Belle Mitchell (1889–1979), American film actress. She appeared in over 100 films between 1915 and 1982
• Belle Montrose (1886–1963), Irish-American actress and vaudeville performer
• Belle Moore (1894–1975), Scottish freestyle swimmer
• Belle Reynolds (1840–1937), American herione of the American Civil War
• Belle Skinner (1866–1928), American businesswoman

Places[link]

• Belle, Missouri, a town in the United States
• Belle Township, Holt County, Nebraska, a township in the United States
• Belle, West Virginia, a town in the United States
• Belle Isle (disambiguation), one of several places
• Belle, Udupi, a village in India
• Belle, the former Dutch name for the commune Bailleul in the Nord department, France

Railroads[link]

• Southern Belle (KCS train), a passenger train operated by the Kansas City Southern Railway
• Brighton Belle, a passenger train operated by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
• Devon Belle, a passenger train with observation car operated by the Southern Railway and then British Railways, 1947 to 1954, the observation cars of which have been preserved

Ships[link]

• La Belle (ship), one of French explorer La Salle's ships lost in 1686 during a colonization attempt in Texas
• Belle of Louisville, a restored Ohio/Mississippi River sternwheeler riverboat
• Celebration Belle, a riverboat
• Northern Belle, a ship that ran aground near London in 1857
• USCS Belle (1848), a survey ship in service with the United Coast Survey from 1848 to 1857

Other uses[link]

• Belle Experiment, an accelerator-based particle physics experiment
• Belle Mahone (born 1914), Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse

See also[link]

• Bel (disambiguation)
• Bell (disambiguation)
• BEL (disambiguation)

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Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve in 1995
Born	Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (1943-10-22) 22 October 1943 (age 68) Paris, France
Years active	1957–present
Spouse	David Bailey (1965–72)

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Catherine Deneuve (French pronunciation: [katʁin dəˈnœv], born 22 October 1943) is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion (1965) and Belle de jour (1967).^[1] Deneuve was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in Indochine; she also won César Awards for that film and The Last Metro (1980). One of France's most renowned actresses, she has also appeared in seven English-language films, most notably the 1983 cult classic The Hunger. In 2008, she appeared in her 100th film, Un conte de Noël.

Early life[link]

Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in occupied Paris to French stage and screen actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve (born 1912). Deneuve is the second of their three daughters. Her older sister was Françoise Dorléac (1942-1967) and her younger sister is Sylvie Dorléac (born 1946).^[2] They have a maternal half-sister, Danielle (born 1937). Deneuve attended Catholic schools.^[3]

Film career[link]

As Catherine Dorléac, she made her film debut at age eleven in Les Collégiennes (1957), filmed in 1955 but not released until two years later. Deneuve subsequently began using her mother's surname professionally so she wouldn't be confused with her elder sister, Françoise Dorléac, who was using their father's name.

Deneuve then starred in films such as Vice and Virtue (1962), directed by Roger Vadim. The film that brought her stardom was Jacques Demy's 1963 musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. She made two more films with Demy, most notably another musical, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), with Dorléac – who was killed in a car accident the following year – as her twin sister. Further prominent films from this early time in her career included Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965), Jean-Paul Rappeneau's La Vie de château (1966), which employed her 'underused comic skills', and Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour (1967), – as the ' haut-bourgeois housewife who achieves sexual satisfaction working in a Parisian brothel.'^[4] In the Polanski film, Deneuve first portrayed the character archetype for which she would be nicknamed the "ice maiden", playing a beautiful Belgian girl, an emotionally distant and mysterious woman 'going homicidally insane in Kensington.' Her work for Buñuel would be her most famous,^[5][6] and her screen persona as "a cold, remote erotic object which dreams are made on" reached a peak, according to the critic Philip French, in her second Buñuel film Tristana, (1970).^[7] Deneuve remained active in European films throughout the 1960s and 70s, but limited her appearances in American films of the period to The April Fools (1969) and Hustle (1975).

Shortly before his death in 1980, Alfred Hitchcock had planned to direct Deneuve in an adaptation of the spy novel The Short Night. Her most notable films during the decade were François Truffaut's Le Dernier métro (1980), which garnered her the César Award for Best Actress, and Tony Scott's cult classic The Hunger (1983), her third American film in which she starred as a bisexual vampire, featuring David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Deneuve's sex scene with Sarandon in The Hunger brought her a significant lesbian following.^[8]

Deneuve won a second César Award and received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for her performance in Indochine (1992), which also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Deneuve is one of the distinct few to receive an Oscar nomination for a non-English speaking role. Her other significant films were André Téchiné's Ma saison préférée (1993) and Les Voleurs (1995). In 1997, Deneuve was the protagonist in the music video for the song N'Oubliez Jamais sung by Joe Cocker. In 1998 she won acclaim and the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Place Vendôme. In 1999 Deneuve appeared in five films, including: Est-Ouest, Le temps retrouvé, and Pola X. Her part in Lars von Trier's musical drama Dancer in the Dark (2000) alongside Icelandic singer Björk was subject to considerable critical scrutiny. The film was selected for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Deneuve's fourth and most recent American film to date was The Musketeer (2001). She shared the Silver Bear Award for Best Ensemble Cast at the Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in 8 Women (2002). In 2005, Deneuve published her diary A l'ombre de moi-meme ("In My Own Shadow", published in English as Close Up and Personal: The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve); in it she writes about her experiences shooting the films Indochine and Dancer in the Dark; and working with leading men such as Burt Reynolds, Jack Lemmon, Vincent Perez, William Hurt, John Malkovich, Alain Delon, Gérard Depardieu, and Marcello Mastroianni. In 2006, she headed the jury at the Venice Film Festival. She made another brief return to Hollywood with a guest-starring role on the FX TV series Nip/Tuck during its fourth season in November 2006. She also lent her voice to the Oscar-nominated animated feature Persepolis (2007). In 2008, she appeared in her 100th film, Un conte de Noël. That same year she was honored at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for her contributions to European cinema.

In 2010 Deneuve starred in the period comedy Potiche (2010). Her latest film is the musical Les Bien-aimés (2011) co-starring her real-life daughter Chiara Mastroianni. Although they share four previous acting credits, this is the first time Deneuve and Mastroianni have shared a scene together.

During an interview at the Cannes Film Festival with Ali Naderzad, Deneuve was asked which was her own favorite film. "I still say it was The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. To do a film completely with music like an opera was an incredible experience. But to work with music all the time, it's such a lift, you know? It's an opera, it's very different."^[9]

Career outside of film[link]

Modeling[link]

One of the world's great beauties, her image was used to represent Marianne, the national symbol of France, from 1985 to 1989. She was the face of Chanel No. 5 in the late 1970s and she caused sales of the perfume to soar in the United States – so much so that the American press, captivated by her charm, nominated her as the world's most elegant woman.^[10]

In 1983, American Home Products retained her to represent their cosmetics line. The company hired world-renowned photographer Richard Avedon and Catherine Deneuve to promote its line of Youth Garde cosmetics in which she famously proclaimed "Look closely. Next year I will be 40."^[11]

She is considered the muse of designer Yves Saint Laurent; he dressed her in the films Belle de Jour, La Chamade, La sirène du Mississipi, Liza, and The Hunger. In 1992, she became a model for his skincare line.

In 2001, she was chosen as the new face of L'Oréal Paris. In 2006, Deneuve became the third inspiration for the M•A•C Beauty Icon series. Deneuve and make-up artists collaborated on the colour collection that became available at M•A•C locations worldwide in February 2006. Deneuve began appearing in the new Louis Vuitton luggage advertisements in 2007.

Entrepreneurial[link]

Deneuve introduced her own perfume, Deneuve, in 1986. She is also a designer of glasses, shoes, jewellery and greeting cards.

Charities[link]

Deneuve in 1999

• Deneuve was appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the Safeguarding of Film Heritage in 1994. On 12 November 2003, she resigned her position to protest the nomination of French businessman Pierre Falcone as the Angola representative, which enables him to escape justice and investigation for illegal arms dealing.^[12]

• Deneuve asked that the rights owed to her from her representation of Marianne be given to Amnesty International.^[13]

• Louis Vuitton made a donation to The Climate Project, spearheaded by Al Gore, on behalf of Deneuve.^[14]

• Deneuve is also involved with Children Action, Children of Africa, Orphelins Roumains and Reporters Without Borders.^[15]

• Douleur sans frontiers (Pain Without Borders) – At the end of 2003, Deneuve recorded a radio commercial to encourage donations to fight against the pain in the world, notably for the victims of landmines.^[16]

• Handicap International – In the middle of July 2005, Deneuve lent her voice to the message of radio commercials, TV and cinema, which denounced the use of the BASM (cluster bombs).^[17]

• Voix de femmes pour la démocratie (Voice of women for democracy) – Deneuve read the text, "Le petit garçon", of Jean-Lou Dabadie, on the entitled CD, "Voix de femmes pour la démocratie." The CD was sold for the benefit of the female victims of the war and the fundamentalisms that fight for democracy.^[18]

• Deneuve has also been involved with various charities in the fight against AIDS and cancer.^[16]

Political involvement[link]

• In 1972, Deneuve signed the Manifesto of the 343 (Manifeste des 343 salopes, Manifesto of the 343 sluts). The manifesto was an admission by its signers to have practiced illegal abortions and therefore exposed themselves to judicial actions and prison sentences.^[19] It was published in Le Nouvel Observateur on 5 April 1971. That same year, feminist lawyer Gisèle Halimi founded the group, Choisir ("To Choose"), to protect the women who had signed the Manifesto of the 343.

• Deneuve is involved with Amnesty International's program to abolish the death penalty.

• In 2001, Deneuve delivered a petition organized by the French-based group, "Together Against the death penalty", to the U.S. Embassy in Paris.^[20]

• In April 2007, Deneuve signed a petition on the internet protesting the "misogynous" treatment of socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal. More than 8,000 French men and women signed the petition, including French actress Jeanne Moreau.^[21]

Personal life[link]

Deneuve speaks fluent French, Italian, English and is semi-fluent in German.^[22] Her hobbies and passions include gardening, drawing, photography, reading, music, cinema, fashion, antiques and decoration.^[16]

In 1961, at age 17, Deneuve moved in with director Roger Vadim, who at 33 was nearly twice her age. They had a son, Christian Vadim (b. 18 June 1963), when Deneuve was 19 and Vadim was 35. The pair ended their relationship a month later.^[2]

On August 19, 1965, the 21-year old Deneuve married British photographer David Bailey. They divorced in 1972 but remain friends, and Deneuve has since said "Marriage is obsolete and a trap."^[23]

Following her separation from Bailey, Deneuve had a relationship with actor Marcello Mastroianni, with whom she co-starred in four films. At age 28, Deneuve gave birth to their daughter, Chiara Mastroianni (b. 28 May 1972).^[2] The couple split in 1975 but remained friends. Deneuve was present at his bedside when he died of pancreatic cancer on December 19, 1996.^[2]

Deneuve also had a brief relationship with actor Clint Eastwood in 1966 while on a break from Bailey,^[24] and dated director François Truffaut in the late 1970s.^[2]

She had an on-and-off, long-term relationship with Canal+ tycoon Pierre Lescure during the 1980s and '90s.^[2]

In an August 2007 interview, the intensely private Deneuve stated that she was in a relationship but would not disclose the name of her partner.^[25]

Deneuve has four grandchildren. She became a grandmother for the first time at age 43 in September 1987, when Christian's 18-year-old girlfriend gave birth to their son Igor.^[26] Her other grandchildren are: Milo (b. 1996, Chiara's son with Pierre Torreton), Anna (b. 2003, Chiara's daughter with Benjamin Biolay), and Lou (b. 2010, Christian's daughter with Julia Livage).^[27]

Deneuve is a longtime cigarette smoker and has expressed her frustration with the increasing bans on smoking. During a press conference held in a Madrid hotel in March 2011 to promote Potiche, she was told to put out her cigarette and refused by saying she would pay the fine instead. "I think it is all very excessive", Deneuve told reporters.^[28]

Filmography[link]

Discography[link]

• 1980 :
  • Dieu fumeur de havanes – by and with Serge Gainsbourg (original film soundtrack Je vous aime by Claude Berri)
  • Quand on s'aime – duet with Gérard Depardieu, for a television programme

• 1981 : Her first and only album issued – Souviens-toi de m'oublier written by Serge Gainsbourg

1. Digital delay
2. Depression au-dessus du jardin
3. Epsilon
4. Monna Vanna et Miss Duncan
5. Marine bond tremolo
6. Ces petits riens (duet with Serge Gainsbourg) – original version performed by Gainsbourg and Juliette Gréco (1964)
7. Souviens-toi de m'oublier (duet with Serge Gainsbourg)
8. Overseas telegram
9. What tu dis qu'est-ce tu say
10. Oh Soliman
11. Alice helas

• 1993 : Paris Paris – by and with Malcolm McLaren
• 1997 : Allo maman bobo – by Alain Souchon, during an evening with Les Enfoirés in 1997 with Alain Souchon, Jean-Jacques Goldman and Laurent Voulzy
• 1999 : Joyeux anniversaire maman – by Stomy Bugsy (original film soundtrack Belle-maman by Gabriel Aghion)
• 2000 : Cvalda – by and with Björk (original film soundtrack Dancer in the dark by Lars von Trier)
• 2001 : Toi jamais – original film soundtrack Huit Femmes by François Ozon (original version performed by Sylvie Vartan en 1976)
• 2006 : Ho capito che ti amo – original film soundtrack Le héros de la famille by Thierry Klifa
• 2010 : C'est beau la vie by Jean Ferrat – original film soundtrack Potiche by François Ozon

• Audiobooks for Éditions des Femmes :
  • Cendrillon by Charles Perrault
  • Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
  • Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia by Marguerite Duras
  • Les Paradis aveugles by Duong Thu Huong
  • La Marquise d'O by Heinrich Von Kleist
  • Lettres à un jeune poète by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Lettres à ma mère by Sylvia Plath

Awards and nominations[link]

César Awards[link]

Academy Awards[link]

BAFTA Awards[link]

Other Awards[link]

See also[link]

• Cinema of France

References[link]

External links[link]

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Florence Foresti, 2008

Florence Foresti (born November 8, 1973 in Vénissieux, Rhône) is a French comedienne and actress.

Background[link]

Following her high school studies in literature, theatre and dramatic expression at Saint-Just de Lyon, Florence Foresti entered a school for cinematography at Lyon. After her studies, she appeared in the French television show Thalassa.

At 20, Florence enrolled in a course in classical theatre at Lyon, which she quit after just two days. She had a few other jobs, including working for EDF in Lyon, before finally becoming a computer graphics artist. But she didn't give up on her artistic ambitions, and in 1998 made her début at the café-théâtre Le nOmbril du mOnde ("The navel of the world"), as part of an all woman trio Les Taupes Models (a pun between French "Model Moles" and English "Top Models") with Céline Ianucci and Cécile Giroud, while simultaneously working as a computer graphics artist. The trio was noticed while touring and Anne Roumanoff proposed to make the act the first part of her show. Florence Foresti's career was launched.

In 2001 her first one woman show, Manquerait plus qu'elle soit drôle ("The only thing missing is that she be funny") won the Jury prize at the Antibes festival. Her style bears comparison with that of Muriel Robin and Sylvie Joly, as well as with some of the 'attitude' and voices of Dieudonné M'bala M'bala and Élie Semoun. She appeared in the Stéphane Bern programme 20h 10 pétantes, and then on Laurent Ruquier's On a tout essayé, playing zany characters.

In 2009 she staged her show MotherFucker. She explained the Anglo-Saxon directness of the title in an interview with Paris Match: "I asked myself, can one remain a woman, while still being a full-time mother? This question affected me so much that I dubbed my show MotherFucker. And it's a nod to Madonna, my idol. After the birth of her daughter, Lourdes, she appeared in a T-shirt with the word Mother on the front, Fucker on the back. It's so clever, this way of playing with her image, her private life and her playing with words. I stole this."^[1]

Filmography[link]

• 2006: Dikkenek : Commissaire Laurence
• 2006: Lucas, fourmi malgré lui : voice of the ant Kreela (in the french version of this film)
• 2007: Détrompez-vous : Brigitte
• 2007: Si c'était lui... : Roseline, sister of Hélène, played by Carole Bouquet
• 2008: Mes amis, mes amours of Lorraine Lévy : Sophie, the florist
• 2009: w:fr:King Guillaume , dir: Pierre-François Martin-Laval : Magali Brunel
• 2011: w:fr:Hollywoo (also scriptwriter) : Jeanne

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Lenombrildumonde.com

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