Renée Simonot

Renée Simonot
Renée Deneuve
Born	Jeanne Renée Deneuve 10 September 1911(1911-09-10) Le Havre, Fraunce
Dee'd	11 Julie 2021(2021-07-11) (aged 109)
Thrift	Stage actress voice artist film actress
Years active	1918–2001
Hauf-marrae(s)	Maurice Dorléac (m. 1940; d. 1979)
Bairns	4, including Françoise Dorléac an Catherine Deneuve
Kin	Christian Vadim (guidson) Chiara Mastroianni (guiddaughter)

Renée Simonot (10 September 1911 - 11 July 2021) was a French actress. She wis married tae actor Maurice Dorléac, an is the mither o actresses Catherine Deneuve an Françoise Dorléac, an grandmither o actors Christian Vadim an Chiara Mastroianni.

Personal life an career

Born Jeanne Renée Deneuve in Le Havre, Fraunce. She debuted at the Odeon Theatre in 1918 at the age o 7. Primarily a stage actress, she remained there for 28 years, hauldin the post o "leading lady". Her dochter Catherine chose tae uise her maiden name, Deneueve, as her stage name. Simonot is Renée's stage name, which she teuk frae a opera sangster an faimily friend.

Renée Simonot wis ane o the first French actresses tae begin the dubbing o American films in Fraunce frae the beginnin o the talkies in 1929 throu the 1930s. She wis the voice o Olivia de Havilland (in maist o her films), Sylvia Sidney, Judy Garland an Esther Williams, amang ithers. She met Maurice Dorléac while dubbin for MGM, that she marriet in 1940 an she haed three dochters: Françoise in 1942, Catherine in 1943, an Sylvie in 1946. She, wi actor Aimé Clariond, haed a dochter Danielle an aw, born in 1937.

Simonot deed in Paris in Julie 2021 at the age o 109.

Select Theatre

• 1921 Les Misérables Paul Meurice and Charles Hugo based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Odeon Theatre

• 1922: Henry Dupuy-Molière and Jean-José Mazuel Frappa, directed Gémier Firmin, Odeon Theatre

• 1928 La Belle Aventure Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Robert de Flers, Stephen Rey, Odeon Theatre

• 1932: The Favorite Martial Piéchaud, Odeon Theatre

• 1934: Joan of Arc in Saint-Georges de Bouhélier, Odeon Theatre