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Delphine Seyrig (April 10, 1932 - October 15,
1990) was a stage and film actress and a film
director.

==Life and work==
Born Delphine Claire Belriane Seyrig in Beirut,
Lebanon on April 10, 1932, she was the daughter of
an archeologist and the sister of the French
composer Francis Seyrig. As a young lady, she
studied acting at the Comédie de Saint-Etienne,
training under Jean Dasté, and at the Centre
Dramatique de l'Est. She also studied at the
Actors Studio in New York City where, in 1958, she
appeared in her first film, Pull My Daisy. She
returned to France in 1960 and was hired by
director Alain Resnais to star in his film, Last
Year at Marienbad|L'Année dernière à Marienbad.
Her performance brought her international
recognition.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Delphine Seyrig worked
with some of the best directors in the film
industry including François Truffaut, Marguerite
Duras and Alain Resnais. She became one of
Europe's most respected actors both on stage and
in film, and was named best actress at the Venice
Film Festival for her role in the 1963 film,
Muriel (film)|Muriel. Her range was such that she
played many diverse roles, and because she was
fluent in French, English, as well as in German,
she appeared in films in all three languages,
including a number of Hollywood productions.

Through the years, Seyrig used her celebrity
status to promote women's rights. Of the three
films she directed, her most important was the
1977 production Sois belle et tais-toi (Look
Beautiful and Keep Your Mouth Shut) that included
actresses, Shirley MacLaine, Maria Schneider
(actress)|Maria Schneider and Jane Fonda, amongst
others, speaking frankly about the level of sexism
they had to deal with in the film industry. In
1982 Seyrig was a key member of the group that
established the "Centre Audiovisuel Simone de
Beauvoir" in Paris which maintains a large archive
of women's filmed and recorded work and produces
work by and about women. In 1989, Seyrig was given
a festival tribute at the Créteil International
Women's Film Festival, France.

She was married to the American painter, Jack
Youngerman (born 1926) who had studied at the
École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She died in Paris
in 1990 at the age of 58, apparently from cancer,
and was interred there in the Cimetière du
Montparnasse.

==Filmography (actress)==
*Pull My Daisy  (1958) 
*Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à
Marienbad) (1961) 
*Muriel ou le temps d'un retour  (1963) 
*Qui êtes-vous, Polly Magoo?  (1966) 
*Comédie  (1966) 
*Accident (movie)|Accident  (1967) 
*Baisers volés  (1968) 
*La musica  (1968) 
*Mister Freedom  (1969) 
*La voie lactée  (1969)  
*El Vientre de la ballena  (1969) 
*Peau d'âne  (1970) 
*Le Lys dans la vallée  (TV)  (1970) 
*Le Rouge aux lèvres  (1970) 
*Tartuffe  (TV)  (1971)  
*Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie  (1972) 
*Le Journal d'un suicidé  (1972) 
*Le Boucher, la star et l'orpheline  (1973) 
*The Day of the Jackal (1973)
*A Doll's House (movie)|A Doll's House (1973)
*Contre une poignée de diamants  (The Black
Windmill)  (1974) 
*Diselo con flores  (Dites-le avec des fleurs) 
(1974) 
*Le Cri du coeur (1974)
*Le Jardin qui bascule (1974)
*India Song  (1975) 
*Der Letzte Schrei  (1975) 
*Aloïse  (1975) 
*Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080
Bruxelles  (1976) 
*Dear Micheal  (Caro Michele)  (1976) 
*Scum Manifesto (movie)|Scum Manifesto  (1976)  
*Baxter, Vera Baxter  (1977) 
*Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta desert  (1976) 
*Je t'aime, tu danses  (1977)
*Repérages  (1977) 
*Utkozben  (1979) 
*Chère inconnue  (1980) 
*Le Chemin perdu  (1980) 
*Le Petit Pommier  (TV) (1981) 
*Freak Orlando  (1981) 
*Le Grain de sable  (1983) 
*Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse 
(1984) 
*Grosse  (1985)  
*Les Étonnements d'un couple moderne  (TV) 
(1985)  
*Golden Eighties  (1986) 
*Letters Home  (1986) 
*Seven Women, Seven Sins  (1987) 
*Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia  (1989)  
*Une saison de feuilles  (TV)  (1989) 
*La Pagaille  (1990)

==Filmography (director)==
* Sois belle et tais-toi (1981) 
* Scum Manifesto (1976) 
* Maso et Miso vont en bateau (1975) 

==Reference==
* Adapted from the article
http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Delphine_S
eyrig Delphine Seyrig, from Wikinfo, licensed
under the GNU Free Documentation License.