Famous Biographies

Canada Born: Abitibi, Québec, Canada, 21 April 1963. A student at the National Theatre School, Dupuis began work in films in the late 1980s after a successful career in theatre. However, Dupuis’s star status in Québec was assured after his steamy “heart-throb” performance in the Continue reading the biography

France Born: Châteauroux, France, 27 December 1948. One of the principal leading men of the French cinema of the 70s and its top male star of the 80s. A juvenile delinquent in his teens, he took up acting as therapy, on the recommendations of a prison psychologist. While training at dramatic school Continue reading the biography

Born: Paris, France, 22 October 1943. The daughter of veteran stage and screen actor Maurice Dorléac and the younger sister of the late Françoise Dorléac, she made her screen debut while still a schoolgirl of 13, assuming the maiden name of her mother, who was also an actress. Despite the patrona Continue reading the biography

ALAIN DELON France Born: Sceaux, France, 8 November 1935. When the exceptionally handsome young Alain Delon started acting in the 1950s, he bypassed the New Wave, unlike his contemporary Jean-Paul Belmondo. Instead, he came to prominence in René Clément’s Plein Soleil/Purple Noon (1960), bas Continue reading the biography

Born: Bordeaux, France, 1 May 1917. The daughter of an army doctor who died when she was seven, she was raised in Paris and was a 14-year-old cello student at the Conservatoire when her mother entered her in an audition for an adolescent role in the film Le Bal (1931). It was the start of a glorious Continue reading the biography

Born: Paris, France, 17 July 1900. Died: 1983. Dalio came from the music hall and theatre and was typecast in most of his huge 1930s filmography (thirty features in 1936-38 alone) in minor roles which exploited his Semitic features—a casting which was both racist and a source of employment. The co Continue reading the biography

CHOW YUN-FAT Hong Kong Born: Nam Nga Island, Hong Kong, 18 May 1955. Hailed in the Los Angeles Times as “The Coolest Actor in the World,” the endearingly plebeian yet strikingly handsome Chow has been a fixture of Hong Kong film and TV since the 1970s. He is best known by American and Br Continue reading the biography

Born: St. Petersburg, Russia, 27 July 1903. Died: Leningrad, Russia, 1966. After a career on stage in Leningrad, Cherkassov began playing small comic roles in films, such as Vladimir Gardin’s Poet i tsar / The Poet and the Tsar (1927). His first major dramatic roles were the leading part in Io Continue reading the biography

Born: Coruña, Spain, 21 November 1922. Died: Paris, France, 22 November 1996. The daughter of a loyalist politician and diplomat, she volunteered as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War and after Franco’s victory sought asylum in France. After studying acting at the Paris Conservatoire, she b Continue reading the biography

Born: Montréal, Québec, Canada, 27 June 1966. Bussières first attracted attention as a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt’s rigorously dark film, Sonatine. But it was Blanche, a TV series directed by Charles Binamé that gave her étoile status in Québec. After playing the heroine of Continue reading the biography