Celebrity Biographies
Nathalie Delon
An icon of French cinema, she was married to Alain Delon, with whom she starred in the classic “The Silence of a Man”. Nathalie Delon she passed away on January 21, 2021, in Paris, at the age of 79, as a result of cancer. “RIP Mom,” wrote Anthony Delon, the couple’s only child, who broke the news. A week before, he had released a photo of her parents with the caption “unbreakable love, 53 years later.”
Born in Oujda (Morocco), into a family of Spanish origin dedicated to the transport company, Francine Cánovas –her real name– worked as a model from a very young age. She married the soldier Guy Barthélémy, with whom she had a daughter, although she soon divorced him, to emigrate to France.
Her romance with Alain Delon – whom she met by chance in a Parisian nightclub – was widely covered by the media, because he had left (by letter) what was supposed to be the woman of his life, Romy Schneider . , for her. When she became pregnant, they were married on August 13, 1964, when he was at the height of her career. After the link, she debuted as an actress in the cinema, as Nathalie Delon , with The silence of a man , where she gave life to the girlfriend of his character, a hired assassin, who does not give in to the blackmail of a commissioner to give him give away.
After the success of this film, the best of her career, Nathalie Delon took part in thirty others, including La leçon particulière (1968), The Army of Shadows (1969), Bluebeard (1972), and A Faithful Woman (1976 ). ). She retired from the screen after Nuit de chien , from 2008. She also directed two films, Ils appellent ça un accident (1982) and Sweet Lies (1986).