Dany Carrel

{{Short description|French actress (born 1932)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Dany Carrel

| image = DanyCarrel-1952-Harcourt.png

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1932|09|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tourane, Annam, French Indochina

| birth_name = Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles du Chaxel

| occupation = Film actor
Television actor

| years_active = 1953–1989

}}

Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles du Chaxel, better known as Dany Carrel, (born 20 September 1932{{Cite web |last=Les Gens du cinéma |title=Record about "Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles du Chaxel", alias "Dany Carrel" |url=http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=Dany+Carrel&nom_acteur=CARREL%20Dany&ident=27023&debut=0&record=0&from=ok |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=lesgensducinema.com |quote=[Translation] Reference: Birth certificate Nr 1934.MUN..00006. received from the French Foreign Office [because of a birth in a previous colony, namely French Indochina]}}) is a French actress.{{Cite web |date=2009-01-16 |title=BFI {{!}} Film & TV Database {{!}} CARREL, Dany |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/18845 |access-date=2023-12-12 |archive-date=2009-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116031925/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/18845 |url-status=dead }} She was born in Tourane, today Đà Nẵng (Vietnam - then French Indochina) to French father Marie Yves Aimé du Chaxel,{{Cite web |last=Archives de Paris, mairie du 13e arrondissement [Paris Archive, Town Hall of the 13th District] |title=Acte de décès [Death Certificate] Nr 89, go to view 20/31, concerning Juliette de Vriès, widow of Marie Yves Aimé du Chaxel [Dany Carrel's father] |url=https://archives.paris.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMjMtMTItMDUiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6NDtzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6MjcyNjk3O3M6MTY6InZpc2lvbm5ldXNlX2h0bWwiO2I6MTtzOjIxOiJ2aXNpb25uZXVzZV9odG1sX21vZGUiO3M6NDoicHJvZCI7fQ==#uielem_move=101.86666870117188,75&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=89&uielem_brightness=0&uielem_contrast=0&uielem_isinverted=0&uielem_rotate=F |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=archives.paris.fr |quote=
Le 14 janvier 1973 à 20 h 30, est décédée en son domicile, 60 rue Vergniaud, Juliette de Vriès, née à Paris 9e, le 1er avril 1880, sans profession, fille de Aâran de Vriès et de Marianne Wafelman, époux décédés, veuve de Marie Yves Aimé du Chaxel, dressé le 15 janvier 1973 à 14 h 10, sur la déclaration de Yvonne du Chaxel, femme Mosser [il s'agit donc de Dany Carrel elle-même], 40 ans, sans profession […]
[Translation: On 14 January 1973 at 8:30 p.m., died at his home, 60 Vergniaud Street, Juliette de Vriès, born in Paris 9th District, on 1 April 1880, without profession, daughter of Aâran de Vriès and Marianne Wafelman, deceased spouses, widow of Marie Yves Aimé du Chaxel, established on 15 January 1973 at 2:10 p.m., on the statement of Yvonne du Chaxel, a Mosser woman [so it is Dany Carrel herself], 40 years old, without profession…]}} a local Customs general manager, and his Vietnamese mistress, Kam.{{harvnb|Carrel|1991|p=355|Ref=Carrel1991}}, lettre de Huân, frère utérin de Dany Carrel à sa demi-sœur : « Maman a rencontré votre père lorsqu'elle avait dix-neuf-ans. Un jour, une superbe voiture s'est arrêtée juste devant la maison de maman, rue Hûng-Vuong. Maman est sortie pour la contempler. Votre père a aussitôt remarqué maman et l'a regardée avec un certain sentiment. Il était directeur général des douanes. Il a demandé à un ami vietnamien de lui présenter maman. Ainsi a commencé leur grand amour et leur vie conjugale... Maman avait vingt ans à la naissance d'Yvonne et dix-huit mois plus tard est née Alice. » [Translation : letter from Huân, uterine brother of Dany Carrel to her half-sister: "Mom met your father when she was nineteen. One day, a beautiful car stopped right outside Mama’s house on Hun-Vuong Street. Mama went out to contemplate it. Your father immediately noticed Mom and looked at her with a certain feeling. He was the director general of customs. He asked a Vietnamese friend to introduce him to Mom. So began their great love and married life... Mother was twenty years old at the birth of Yvonne and eighteen months later was born Alice."]

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.{{Cite web |title=Dany Carrel :"Je suis tout épatée d'être encore là !" |date=21 February 2021 |url=https://www.francedimanche.fr/actualites/dany-carrel-je-suis-tout-epatee-d-etre-encore-la |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222095356/https://www.francedimanche.fr/actualites/dany-carrel-je-suis-tout-epatee-d-etre-encore-la |archive-date=2021-02-22}}