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  2. Apr 6, 2024 · Delphine Seyrig (born April 10, 1932, Beirut, Lebanondied October 15, 1990, Paris, France) was a French actress celebrated for her mysterious beauty and distinctive characterizations. Seyrig grew up in Lebanon , Greece, France , and the United States and studied drama in Paris and at the Actors Studio in New York .

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  3. Jan 6, 2020 · Born in Beirut in 1932, the French star brought a sense of enigmatic glamour and intelligence to films by many of the most celebrated continental directors of the time, including Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras, François Truffaut, Chantal Akerman and Luis Buñuel.

  4. Delphine Seyrig. Actress: The Day of the Jackal. Delphine was born in Beirut on the 10th April 1932 into an intellectual Protestant family. Her Alsatian father, Henri Seyrig, was the director of the Archaeological Institute and later France's cultural attaché in New York during World War Two.

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  5. Oct 15, 1990 · Biography. Delphine Seyrig (April 10, 1932 – October 15, 1990) was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She became active in the feminist movement in the 1970s along with filmmakers Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, and Ulrike Ottinger. In 1975, Seyrig joined forces with Carole Roussopoulos and Ioana Wieder to form the ...

  6. Jul 15, 2022 · Born in Beirut in 1932, the daughter of French and Swiss intellectuals, Seyrig had committed to being a serious actor by her twenties. At the time, she was married to an American painter and living in Manhattan, where the art scene—though not yet the film scene—was hot.

  7. Apr 7, 2022 · Seyrig and Roussopoulos hit it off, and in 1975, they teamed up with translator Ioana Wieder to found a collective, Les Insoumuses. The name is a play on the French words for “insubordinate” and “muses,” and as Esmé Hogeveen wrote in her review of Callisto McNulty’s 2019 documentary Delphine and Carole for the Brooklyn Rail, Les Insoumuses “aptly describes the witty spirit behind ...

  8. Born in 1932 in Beirut, Lebanon, to French Alsatian parents, actress Delphine Seyrig built her reputation on the Paris stage before arriving in America in 1956. In New York, she studied at the Actors Studio, performed on television, and appeared in the underground 16mm film Pull My Daisy (1958), written by Jack Kerouac.

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