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Farewell to Nathalie Delon, the actress for whom Alain Delon divorced Romy Schneider

Nathalie Delon, memorable French actress best remembered for her role as Jane Lagrange in Jean-Pierre Melville’s film Frank Costello angel face, where she co-starred with then-husband Alain Delon, died on Thursday 21 January in Paris at the age of 79. To communicate the news to the world was the son Anthony on Instagram: “My mother died at 11 this morning, in Paris, surrounded by her loved ones. A cancer took her away in a short time “. The actress, who was born with the name of Francine Canovasil on August 1, 1941 in Oujda, Morocco, appeared in a total of thirty films, including The army of heroes (1969) also by Melville, Doctor Justice (1975) by Christian Jacque e An unfaithful female (1976) by Roger Vadim.

Of Spanish origin, Nathalie arrives in Paris in 1962 after leaving her first husband, Guy Barthélémy. Beautiful, she is 21 when she meets Alain Delon, at the time engaged to Romy Schneider, in a Paris nightclub. After a troubled divorce that ended up in newspapers all over the world, Alain married Nathalie in August 1964 in France and then moved together to Los Angeles, the city which, shortly after, will give birth to their son Anthony. On the set of Frank Costello angel face, however, the tension between the two, who had been in crisis for some time, is cut with a knife and that is why they decide, by mutual agreement, to divorce in February 1969.

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Later Nathalie will say that Schneider’s shadow has always hovered over their marriage. While Delon begins a relationship with Mireille Darc, Nathalie Delon decides to devote herself to the care of her son and to study to become a director: in the eighties, in fact, she goes behind the camera to direct two films: They call it an accident (1982) e Sweet Lies (1986), with Treat Williams. In 2006 she published her memories in a memoir confirming that she has always remained linked to Alain because of her son Anthony who, about a month ago, shared a shot of his parents next to each other on Instagram.

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