Florence Delay | |
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| Born | 19 March 1941 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Novelist, dramatist, playwright, actress |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Notable awards | Prix Femina |
Florence Delay (born 19 March 1941 in Paris) is a French academician and actress. She is best known for portraying Joan of Arc in the 1962 Robert Bresson film The Trial of Joan of Arc .
The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the Sorbonne.
In 1962 she played the title role of Joan of Arc in Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc) by Robert Bresson. At 30 she published her first novel, Minuit sur les jeux. She was awarded the Prix Femina in 1983 for her novel Riche et légère. With Jacques Roubaud of the Oulipo, she compiled Graal Théâtre, a series of 10 plays about the Arthurian legend, from 1977 to 2005.
She has been an actress, narrator or writer in movies by Chris Marker, Hugo Santiago, Benoît Jacquot, Emilio Maillé and Michel Deville. She was elected to the Académie française on 14 December 2000.
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