Dany Carrel

Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles du Chaxel, better known as Dany Carrel (born 20 September 1932^[1]), is a French actress.^[2] She was born in Tourane, today Đà Nẵng (Vietnam, then French Indochina) to French father Marie Yves Aimé du Chaxel,^[3] a local Customs general manager,^[4] and his Vietnamese mistress, Kam.^[4]

Dany Carrel
Born	Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles du Chaxel (1932-09-20) 20 September 1932 (age 92) Tourane, Annam, French Indochina
Occupation(s)	Film actress Television actress
Years active	1953–1989

She shot about 50 films and TV films from the 1950s – when she quickly became famous – to the 1990s, and also played in theatre.

She gradually retired starting from the eighties due to two bouts of cancer. In 2021, she was hospitalized for three weeks after contracting COVID-19.^[5]

Selected filmography

• Dortoir des grandes (1953)
• “Maternite Clandestine” (1953)
• Scandal in Montmartre (1955)
• Passionate Summer (1956)
• Women's Club (1956)
• People of No Importance (1956)
• Porte des Lilas (1957)
• Élisa (1957)
• Why Women Sin (1958)
• Girls for the Summer (1958)
• This Desired Body (1959)
• The Goose of Sedan (1959)
• Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
• The Hands of Orlac (1960)
• The Enemy General (1960)
• Une souris chez les hommes (1964)
• Trap for Cinderella (1965)
• An Idiot in Paris (1967)
• A Little Virtuous (1968)
• La prisonnière (1968)
• Clérambard (1969)
• Trois milliards sans ascenseur (1972)
• Schools Falling Apart (1981)

Publication

• Dany Carrel with help of Marie-José Jaubert (1991). L'Annamite [The Girl from Annam] (in French). Paris: éditions Robert Laffont. ISBN 978-2-221-06928-8.