Nathalie Delon

Nathalie Delon born Francine Canovas also known as Nathalie Barthélémy 1 August 1941 21 January 2021 was a French actress model film director and writer In the 1960s Nathalie was regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the world and in the 1970s she was considered a French sex symbol She is well known for her first acting role appearing opposite her husband actor Alain Delon in the neonoir film Le Samouraï directed by JeanPierre Melville 1967 She appeared in 30 films and directed two others Nathalie was also credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones Francine Canovas was born on 1 August 1941 in Oujda then under the French Protectorate in Morocco to a French family of Spanish origin She was the daughter of Louis Canovas 19152003 piednoir of Oran Algeria manager of a transport company in Morocco who abandoned the family when she was 8 months old in 1942 and Antoinette Rodriguez who was from Melilla Nathalie had a sister Louisette and a brother In 1957 Nathalie married a conscript from the north of France Guy Barthélémy who later became the signing officer for Omnium Marocain dAssurance They lived in Morocco and had a daughter named Nathalie Barthélémy The marriage ended in 1960 and the following year she moved to Paris Their divorce was granted in July 1964 In August 1962 Nathalie met French actor Alain Delon at New Jimmys a Paris nightclub and they began a secret relationship that night that lasted one year In May 1963 Nathalie accompanied Delon to the shoot of his new film La Tulipe Noire The couple became engaged in April 1964 and on 13 August 1964 they married in LoiretCher Their son Anthony Delon was born on 30 September 1964 at CedarsSinai Medical Center in Los Angeles They were one of the most glamorous and talkedabout couples of the 1960s In June 1968 Nathalie and Delon separated The couple later divorced on 14 February 1969 They worked together on two films Le Samouraï whilst they were married and Doucement les Basses after their divorce During the 1960s and 1970s she dated Bobby Keys Marc Porel Eddie Fisher Renaud Verley Louis Malle and Franco Nero among others Her greatest love was Chris Blackwell whom she was with for 15 years 19781993 During the 1960s Nathalie Delon was a model She was photographed by top French and foreign photographers for famous magazines such as Vogue In 1967 Nathalie became a film actress starring opposite her husband in the film Le Samouraï by JeanPierre Melville which became a hit Writing of the Delons performances in Le Figaro Bertrand Guyard notes husband and wife are both nearly silent but their gazes fraught with meaning are enough to thrill the camera with the director drawing from their portrayals a mythical couple in the seventh art Source Article Nathalie Delon from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA