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Compagnons de delphine seyrig11/12/2022 © Copyright Wikipédia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.Seyrig was married to the American painter, Jack Youngerman, who had studied in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she met him. In turn, perhaps Seyrig's most demanding role was in Chantal Akerman's 1976 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, in which she was required to adopt a highly restrained, rigorously minimalistic mode of acting to convey the mindset of the title character. She may be most widely known for her role as Colette de Montpelier in Zinnemann's 1973 film Day of the Jackal. She played many diverse roles, and because she was fluent in French, English and German, she appeared in films in all three languages, including a number of Hollywood productions. She achieved recognition for both her stage and film work, and was named best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her role in Resnais' Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (1963). Later her parents returned to Lebanon and sent her to school in France.ĭuring the sixties and seventies, Seyrig worked with such directors as François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Marguerite Duras, Fred Zinnemann and Alain Resnais. She grew up in Lebanon and her family moved to New York when she was 10 years old. Seyrig was the daughter of archaeologist Henry Seyrig and Hermine de Saussure, sister of the composer Francis Seyrig. Among her roles of this period is the older married woman in Francois Truffaut's Baisers volés (1968). Her performance brought her international recognition and she moved to Paris. In New York she met director Alain Resnais who asked her to star in his film, L'Année dernière à Marienbad. In 1958 she appeared in her first film, Pull My Daisy. In 1956 she returned to New York and studied at Actors' Studio. She appeared briefly in small roles in TV series Sherlock Holmes. Later her parents returned to Lebanon and sent her to school in France.Īs a young woman, Seyrig studied acting at Comédie de Saint-Étienne, training under Jean Dasté, and at Centre Dramatique de l'Est.
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