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Béatrice Dalle

b. 1964

French actress

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Born 1964. Béatrice Dalle is a French model and actor.

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 37°2 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.

Biography Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. She was raised Catholic

Career Dalle was working as a model when she met filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix. Beineix cast her in the lead role of the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (released in the UK and the USA as Betty Blue), which received BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and made Dalle a star.

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 Poindexter's version of "Oh Me Oh My (I'm fool for you Baby)" and in the 1991 music video for "Move to Memphis" by Norwegian band a-ha.

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.

She starred in Jim Jarmusch's 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 l'intérieur, in which she played a cruel psychopath stalking a pregnant woman.

Controversies Dalle has been arrested on several occasions for shoplifting, drug possession and assault.

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 man's ear.

Personal life In 1985, she married the painter Jean-François Dalle, whom she divorced in 1988. She kept his patronym. JoeyStarr later said that they had to separate and keep some distance between them because they were a fusional couple. Dalle and JoeyStarr separated in 2005. They remained inseparable afterwards. According to a 2015 profile of Dalle, she said the marriage was "a complete disaster" once Meziani was released from prison. Their divorce was finalised in July 2014.

After her second divorce, Dalle was in a relationship with a man named Eddy, a mixed martial arts (MMA) instructor. 2019 "" One of the characters Indochine

2021 "Cold & Distant" Protagonist Hangman's Chair

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Beatrice Dalle, Béatrice Cabarrou

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Alessandro Gassmann

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Who is Béatrice Dalle?

French actress

When was Béatrice Dalle born?

Béatrice Dalle was born on 19 December 1964 in Brest.

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Béatrice Dalle is a model and actor.

What nationality is Béatrice Dalle?

Béatrice Dalle is French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Béatrice Dalle

· Wikidata: Q273394

· DBpedia: Béatrice Dalle

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