Alain Delon | |
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Delon at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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Born |
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon 8 November 1935 Sceaux, France |
Residence | Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland |
Citizenship | French Swiss (since 1999) |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1957–2012 |
Spouse(s) | Nathalie Delon (1964-1968), Rosalie van Breemen (1987-2002) |
Partner(s) | Romy Schneider (1958-63), Mireille Darc (1968-1982) |
Children |
Anthony Delon, born on 30 September 1964 Anouchka Delon, born on 25 November 1990 Alain-Fabien Delon, born on 18 March 1994 |
Website | alaindelon.ch |
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (French: [alɛ̃ dəlɔ̃]; born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and businessman.
Delon became one of Europe's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols in the 1960s. He achieved critical acclaim for roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Purple Noon (1960), L'Eclisse (1962), The Leopard (1963), Lost Command (1966) and Le Samouraï (1967). Over the course of his career Delon worked with many well known directors, including Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni and Louis Malle.
Delon acquired Swiss citizenship on 23 September 1999, and the company managing products sold under his name is based in Geneva. He resides in Chêne-Bougeries in the canton of Geneva.
Delon was born in Sceaux, Seine (now Hauts-de-Seine), Île-de-France, a suburb of Paris. His parents, Édith (née Arnold) and Fabien Delon, divorced when Delon was four. Both remarried, and Delon has a half-sister and two half-brothers. His paternal grandmother was Corsican, from Prunelli-di-Fiumorbo.