Béatrice Dalle

Béatrice Dalle born 19 December 1964 is a French actress and model She has appeared in over fifty films and is best known internationally for her debut role in the 1986 film 372 le matin also released as Betty Blue Béatrice Dalle is renowned for her intense and unconventional roles often portraying characters that are both provocative and transgressive Dalle was born in Brest Finistère France as Béatrice Cabarrou She grew up in Le Mans with her mother father and an older sister At age 15 Dalle ran away from home to live in Paris In 1985 she married the painter JeanFrançois Dalle whom she divorced in 1988 In 2005 Dalle married an inmate she met while acting in a short film that was being shot in a prison They divorced in 2015 Dalle was working as a model when she met filmmaker JeanJacques Beineix Beineix cast her in the lead role of the 1986 film 372 le matin released in the UK and USA as Betty Blue which received BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and made a star of Dalle She went on to appear in a series of major roles in French films including the 1989 film Chimère which was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival She featured in the 1987 music video for Buster Poindexters version of Oh Me Oh My Im fool for you Baby and in the 1991 music video for Move to Memphis by Norwegian band aha She starred in Jim Jarmuschs Night on Earth in 1991 In 1997 she was cast in The Blackout her first film made in the United States In 2001 Dalle appeared in the controversial film Trouble Every Day in which she played a compulsive sexual cannibal She starred in the 2007 film À lintérieur in which she played a cruel psychopath stalking a pregnant woman In 1988 Dalle was interviewed by Clive James in Postcard from Paris where she said she was tired of Paris and wanted to move to New York Dalle has been arrested on several occasions for shoplifting drug possession and assault In January 2005 while making a film about prison life in Brest Dalle met Guenaël Meziani serving a 12year prison sentence for assaulting and raping his exgirlfriend She married him after 24 onehour visits and spoke on his behalf at hearings for his early release According to a 2015 profile of Dalle she said the marriage was a complete disaster once Meziani was released from prison and their divorce was apparently finalised in July 2014 Interviewed on the French TV programme Divan in 2016 Dalle stated that when she used to work in a morgue with her friends they sold body parts of corpses and while on acid they ate a dead mans ear Source Article Béatrice Dalle from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA