Dani

Danièle Graule (1 October 1944 – 18 July 2022), known as Dani (sometimes as Dany), was a French actress and singer.

Biography

Dani was born in Castres. In 1966 she was contracted to Pathé-Marconi and released her first single "Garçon manqué". In 1968 "Papa vient d'épouser la bonne" sold a million copies and was a major hit. Dani was meant to have been France's Eurovision Song Contest 1974 entry with the song "La Vie à 25 ans", but President Georges Pompidou died in the week of the competition, so she never entered Eurovision properly.

On the cinema screen, she played the script-girl Liliane in François Truffaut's Day for Night and in the last Antoine Doinel-adventure Love on the Run a short-time-affair of Antoine, Christine's friend Liliane. Truffaut who made her famous with one role in two movies: she is Liliane in Day for Night. The fickle girlfriend of actor Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) recruited as a script trainee who is pinching for the English stuntman. In 1978, this Liliane became the friend of Christine Doinel alias Claude Jade in the final film of the Doinel cyclus. Truffaut used Liliane's flashbacks for Love on the Run. Here Liliane becomes the best friend of Christine (Claude Jade). And later, she has an affair with her husband Antoine, again Jean-Pierre Léaud. Thanks to the installation of new and old scenes, Claude Jade also mounted in the flashbacks of Day for Night, it seems Dani was already part of the Doinel Cycle.

She died in Tours on 18 July 2022, aged 77.

Discography

Albums

1967 : "H" comme Hippies 1970 : Dani 1977 : Les Migrateurs 1993 : N Comme Never Again 2003 : Tout dépend du contexte 2005 : Laissez-Moi Rire 2020 : Horizons doré 2024 : Attention départ

Selected filmography

1970: Tumuc Humac by Jean-Marie Périer, with Marc Porel and François Périer 1973: Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles by Georges Lautner, with Bruno Pradal 1973: A Police Officer Without Importance by Jean Larriaga, with Marc Porel 1973: Day for Night by François Truffaut, with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jacqueline Bisset 1976: Les Anneaux de Bicêtre by Louis Grospierre, with Michel Bouquet, Claude Jade 1979: Love on the Run by François Truffaut, with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade 1988: Story of Women by Claude Chabrol, with Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet 2006: Avenue Montaigne by Danièle Thompson, with Cécile de France, Valérie Lemercier 2018: Guy by Alex Lutz, with Alex Lutz, Pascale Arbillot, Élodie Bouchez