Mireille Darc (15 May 1938 – 28 August 2017) was a French actress, director, photographer, singer and model. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Merit. Alain Delon was her longtime co-star and companion.
Born Mireille Christiane Gabrielle Aimée Aigroz in Toulon, she attended the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Toulon and moved to Paris in 1959.
Darc's debuted in Claude Barma's television drama Du côté de l'enfer (aka, La Grande Brétèche, 1960). Her first leading role came in another production for French television, Jean Prat's Hauteclaire (1961). She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Weekend (Week-end, 1967) as Corinne, her highest profile role for international critics; as Christine in The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, 1972) and The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le retour du grand blond, 1974) and alongside Alain Delon and Louis de Funès in several films: Pouic-Pouic (1963), High Lifers (How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965), Jeff (1969), Borsalino (uncredited, 1970), The Love Mates (Madly, 1970), Icy Breasts (Les Seins de glace, 1974), Death of a Corrupt Man (Mort d'un pourri, 1977), Man in a Hurry (L'Homme pressé, 1977), and the television series Frank Riva (2003).
Darc had a heart condition from childhood, which required open-heart surgery in 1980. She was seriously injured in a car accident on July 7, 1983, in a tunnel in the Aosta Valley, Italy, suffering a fractured spine and other injuries that required three months of immobilization in a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland.
Although they had recently separated about two weeks prior to the accident after a fifteen-year relationship, Delon rushed to Aosta when he heard about the accident, and left separately for Geneva by automobile during the night.
She quit her film career, but she returned to television in the 1990s. In 2006, French President Jacques Chirac awarded Darc the Legion of Honour.
In 2013, Darc underwent further open heart surgery, and during 2016 she suffered several hemorrhages. She died on 28 August 2017 in Paris in a coma at the age of 79.
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| 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 | Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit as Self |
| 2015 | Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite as Self |
| 2013 | Mireille Darc, blessures intimes as Self |
| 2013 | Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son as Self |
| 2012 | Lino, il n'était que lui-même as Self |
| 2011 | Le Grand Restaurant II as The Client Who Doesn't Want to Age |
| 2005 | Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre as Self |
| 2002 | Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes as Self |
| 1998 | La justice de Marion : Les filles de Vincennes as Marion |
| 1997 | L'ami de mon fils as Louise |
| 1997 | Ni vue ni connue as Nicole Garrel |
| 1997 | Sapho as Fanny |
| 1984 | Réveillon chez Bob as Madeleine |
| 1983 | Si elle dit oui... je ne dis pas non as Catherine |
| 1982 | Jamais avant le mariage as Elisabeth |
| 1981 | Örnek Mücadele as La Grande sauterelle (uncredited) |
| 1981 | Reporters as Self |
| 1978 | Les Ringards as Annie Garmiche |
| 1977 | Mort d'un pourri as Françoise |
| 1977 | L'Homme pressé as Edwige de Bois-Rosé |
| 1977 | Les Passagers as Nicole |
| 1976 | L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres as Charlotte |
| 1975 | Le Téléphone rose as Christine, la call-girl de Mme Claude |
| 1974 | Dis-moi que tu m’aimes as Victoire Danois |
| 1974 | Le Retour du Grand Blond as Christine |
| 1974 | Borsalino and Co. as Prostitute in the Street (uncredited) |
| 1974 | Les seins de glace as Peggy Lister |
| 1974 | OK patron as Mélissa |
| 1973 | La Valise as Françoise |
| 1973 | Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu as Olga Leroy |
| 1972 | Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire as Christine |
| 1972 | L'Humeur vagabonde |
| 1972 | Il était une fois un flic... as Christine alias Françoise |
| 1971 | Laisse aller... c'est une valse as Carla |
| 1971 | Fantasia chez les ploucs as Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo" |
| 1970 | Madly as Agatha |
| 1970 | Borsalino as Prostitute (uncredited) |
| 1970 | Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais… elle cause ! as Francine |
| 1969 | Monte Carlo or Bust! as Marie-Claude |
| 1969 | Jeff as Eva |
| 1968 | Summit as Annie |
| 1967 | Haftasonu as Corinne Durand |
| 1967 | Fleur d'oseille as Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre |
| 1967 | La Blonde de Pékin as Christine Olsen |
| 1967 | Casino Royale as Jag (uncredited) |
| 1967 | La Grande Sauterelle as Salène |
| 1966 | À belles dents as Eva Ritter |
| 1966 | Ne nous fâchons pas as Églantine Michalon |
| 1966 | Zarabanda Bing Bing as Polly |
| 1966 | Du rififi à Paname as Lili Princesse |
| 1966 | Galia as Galia |
| 1965 | Les Bons Vivants as Marie Truchet, dite Héloïse (sketchs "La Fermeture" et "Les Bons Vivants") |
| 1964 | Les Barbouzes as Amaranthe |
| 1964 | La Chasse à l'homme as Georgina |
| 1964 | Les Durs à cuire (Comment supprimer son prochain sans perdre l'appétit) as Josette |
| 1964 | Des pissenlits par la racine as Rockie « la Braise », femme entretenue |
| 1964 | Monsieur as Suzanne, Former Maid of Monsieur |
| 1964 | 4 Fois D as Self |
| 1964 | L'Été en hiver as Diane, the Actress Wife |
| 1963 | Pouic-Pouic as Patricia Monestier |
| 1963 | Les Veinards as Jacqueline (segment "Le Vison") |
| 1962 | Virginie as Brigitte |
| 1962 | Le Diable et les Dix Commandements as Une amie de Mauricette |
| 1961 | Les Nouveaux Aristocrates as Milou Rivoire |
| 1961 | Mourir d'amour as Mariette, Maid |
| 1961 | Hauteclaire as Hauteclaire Stassin |
| 1961 | La Bride sur le cou as Marie-Jeanne |
| 1961 | ¿Pena de muerte? as Lina |
| 1960 | Les Distractions as Maïa |
| 1960 | La grande bretèche as Jane |
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