Born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in Paris, France; daughter of veteran French actors Maurice Dorléac and Renée Deneuve. Entered films as a teenager using her actress mother's maiden name and appeared in several routine movies such as LES PORTES CLAQUENT (1960) with elder sister Françoise Dorléac (1942-1967). Her youthfulness mirrored the sparkle of Jacques Demy's playful musical THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964), and Deneuve became a leading international star. Later an icy charm would brilliantly embody contemporary repression and ennui in Roman Polanski's REPULSION (1965) along with Luis Buñuel's BELLE DE JOUR (1967) and TRISTANA (1970). Hollywood has occasionally beckoned the stunningly photogenic Deneuve, but neither the romantic comedy of THE APRIL FOOLS (1969) nor the neo-noir HUSTLE (1975) garnered her the popular acclaim she (and the films) deserved. Although her impassive quality has produced powerfully underplayed performances studded with sexual tension (François Truffaut's LE DENIER MÉTRO / THE LAST METRO, 1980, André Téchiné's SCENE OF THE CRIME, 1986), too often she has merely decorated films, cast as obligatory romantic heroines. 1983's THE HUNGER polarized critics who either despised or delighted in the decadent vampires whose modishness brought the former model's career around full circle. Deneuve ill-advisedly ventured into production with DRÔLE D'ENDROIT POUR UNE RENCONTRE / A STRANGE PLACE TO MEET in 1988, but had by then become thoroughly institutionalized by the French Republic, which chose her profile as the model for symbolic "Marianne" statues to be displayed across the country. Her indelible, glossy womanliness earmarked her casting in INDOCHINE (1992), in which she played an ideal Frenchwoman who has never seen her native land; this performance brought her an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress. She won France's César® Awards as Best Actress for her performances in LE DENIER MÉTRO (1980) and INDOCHINE (1991). She was nominated as Best Actress for LE SAUVAGE (1976), HÔTEL DES AMÉRIQUES (1982), AGENT TROUBLE (1988), DRÔLE D'ENDROIT POUR UNE RENCONTRE (1989), MA SAISON PRÉFÉRÉE (1994), LES VOLEURS (1997), and PLACE VENDÔME (1999); she received a Best Supporting Actress César nomination for PALAIS ROYAL! (2006) Other notable credits include EST-OUEST / EAST-WEST (1999), DANCER IN THE DARK (2000), THE MUSKETEER (2001) and 8 FEMMES / 8 WOMEN, "Les liaisons dangereuses" (2002, TV mini-series), UM FILME FALADO / A TALKING PICTURE (2003), ROIS ET REINE / KINGS & QUEEN and LES TEMPS QUI CHANGENT / CHANGING TIMES (both 2004), LE CONCILE DE PIERRE / THE STONE COUNCIL and LE HÉROS DE LA FAMILLE / FAMILY HERO (both 2006), APRÉS LUI / AFTER HIM and PERSEPOLIS (voice) (both 2007), and UN CONTE DE NOËL and JE VEUX VOIR / I WANT TO SEE (both scheduled for 2008). Deneuve was formerly married (1965-72) to photographer David Bailey and has children by director Roger Vadim and actor Marcello Mastroianni.  Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role 1992: INDOCHINE 1 nomination