Janine Darcey

Janine Darcey — Biography

Janine Darcey, born Janine Renée Casaubon, was a French actress of stage, film and television. She appeared in about sixty films between 1936 and 1993 and is remembered for being in the cast of Jules Dassin's crime film Du rififi chez les hommes.

Her career lasted well over half a century. In the postwar years she appeared in films such as Return to Life (1949). In Un témoin dans la ville (1959) she played the hotel owner, and in The Straight Line (La ligne droite) she played Thérèse Cassard. Over the following decades she took part in productions including Les risques du métier (1967), Le Fantôme de la liberté (1974), La Carapate (1978) and Coup de tête (1979). Later work includes Le Bon Plaisir (1984), where she played the waitress Berthe, and American Dreamer (1984).

In her private life she married the actors Serge Reggiani and Gérard Landry, and had a son. She died in Fontenay-lès-Briis on 1 October 1993.