page_title: Françoise Dorléac
section_title: International Career
hierarchical_section_title: Françoise Dorléac / Biography / International Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of actors Françoise Dorleac and Michael Caine watching ice hockey during the cinematography of Billion Dollar Brain in Helsinki Ice Hall. Republished in Hufvudstadsbladet, 25 January, 2016, Varför läser Michael Caine Husis?
context_page_description: Françoise Paulette Louise Dorléac was a French actress and model. She was the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve, with whom she starred in the 1967 musical, The Young Girls of Rochefort. Her other films include Philippe de Broca's movie L'homme de Rio, François Truffaut's La peau douce, Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac and Val Guest's Where the Spies Are.
context_section_description: That Man from Rio and Soft Skin were seen widely internationally and Dorleac received an offer to play the female lead in an expensive Hollywood financed epic, Genghis Khan (1965). She was David Niven's love interest in a spy film at MGM, Where the Spies Are (1966).
  Dorléac appeared as the adulterous wife in Roman Polanski's black comedy Cul-de-sac (1966), shot in Britain. She returned to France to star in a TV adaption of the Prosper Mérimée novel Julie de Chaverny ou la Double Méprise (1966) directed by Marchand. Then she joined Gene Kelly and her sister Catherine, who was a cinematic star by this time, in The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), an homage to Hollywood musicals.
  Her final film role was the female lead in Billion Dollar Brain (1967) opposite Michael Caine, who played spy Harry Palmer.
caption: Françoise Dorléac and Michael Caine during the filming of Billion Dollar Brain at Helsinki Ice Hall, February 1967.
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