French actress Nathalie Delon, best remembered for her role alongside her husband Alain Delon in Frank Costello angel face by Jean-Pierre Melville, who died on Thursday 21 January in Paris at the age of 79. The news was given by his son, Anthony Delon. My mother died this morning at 11, in Paris, surrounded by her loved ones. Cancer took her away in no time. The actress had made a total of thirty films in supporting roles until the early 1980s, including The Army of Heroes (1969), also by Jean-Pierre Melville, Docteur Justice (1975), by Christian Jacque, and An Unfaithful Female (1976), by Roger Vadim. Nathalie Delon then went behind the camera to direct Ils appellent a un accident (1982) and Sweet Lies (1986), starring Treat Williams. He will publish his memories in a memoir in 2006.
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Of Spanish origin, Nathalie Delon was born Francine Canovason 1 August 1941 in Oujda, Morocco, then under the French protectorate. She lands in Paris in 1962 after leaving her first husband, Guy Barthlmy, a former member of the contingent, with whom she has a daughter. Beautiful, big green velvet eyes, she is 21 when, in a nightclub in the capital, by chance she literally stumbles upon Alain Delon, in full swing and engaged to Romy Schneider. An encounter that will ignite in a clandestine passion born before Delon leaves Romy. The star married Nathalie in August 1964 in the strictest privacy. The couple immediately embarks on board the ship Francia for a honeymoon and settles in Los Angeles, where their son Anthony was born a month later. But quickly, in the superb villa on the heights of Hollywood, the union between the two becomes stormy. On the set of Frank Costello the face of an angel (the original title of the film Le Samoura) the tension between the spouses is frightening. They divorced in February 1969.
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Schneider’s ghost will always be present in the relationship between the two: Alain – Nathalie declared in an interview – never talked to me about her but from time to time I saw a shadow of sadness in her eyes. When the divorce arrives, in 1969, Nathalie leaves with her son, while Delon begins her affair with Mireille Darc. However, the two remain linked. Anthony, who is 56 today, no later than a month ago, posted a photo of his parents on Instagram. They are next to each other on their wedding day.
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