Seyrig, Delphine

Seyrig, Delphine

▪ French actress
in full  Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig  
born April 10, 1932, Beirut, Lebanon
died Oct. 15, 1990, Paris, Fr.
 French actress celebrated for her mysterious beauty and distinctive characterizations.

      Seyrig grew up in Lebanon, Greece, France, and the United States and studied drama in Paris and at the Lee Strasberg Actors Studio in New York. Initially a stage actress, she was cast in director Alain Resnais's L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961; Last Year at Marienbad) as a beautiful, idealized woman who resists a man's attempts at brainwashing. Her role in Resnais's Muriel (1963) won her a best actress award at the Venice Film Festival. Her more than 30 subsequent films included roles in François Truffaut's Baisers volés (1968; Stolen Kisses), as a garish beauty in the satire Mister Freedom (1968), as a lesbian vampire in Les Lèvres rouges (1971; Daughters of Darkness), and in Luis Buñuel's Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).

      In later years Seyrig allied herself with the French feminist movement, and beginning in 1975—the year she portrayed a femme fatale in Marguerite Duras's India Song—she usually worked with women directors. Despite her many films she considered herself primarily a stage actress; she performed in both classic and contemporary plays, often with small experimental theatres in France.

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