Denise Perrier

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| name = Denise Perrier

| image = File:Miss World 1953, Denise Perrier, Frankrijk.jpg

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| caption = Denise Perrier in 1953

| birth_name = Denise Margaret Perrier

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1935|2|13}}

| birth_place = Ambérieu-en-Bugey, France

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| occupation = Model
Actress

| years_active = 1954-1971

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| title = Miss World 1953

| competitions = Miss France 1953
(Winner)
Miss World 1953
(Winner)

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Denise Perrier (born February 13, 1935){{cite web |url=https://www.bugeycotiere.fr/51554/denise-perrier-la-miss-monde-1953-de-retour-sur-ses-terres-natales/ |title=Denise Perrier : la Miss Monde 1953 de retour sur ses terres natales |website=Bugeycotiere.fr |date=20 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214182638/https://www.bugeycotiere.fr/51554/denise-perrier-la-miss-monde-1953-de-retour-sur-ses-terres-natales/ |archive-date=14 December 2019 |language=fr |url-status=dead}} is a French actress, former model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1953. She now goes by "Denise Perrier Lanfranchi." She remains the only French woman to have won the Miss World title.{{cite web |url=https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/nord-pas-calais/maeva-coucke-rate-couronne-miss-monde-1588995.html |title=Maëva Coucke rate la couronne de Miss Monde |website=Francetvinfo.fr |date=8 December 2018 |language=fr}}

Biography

Denise Perrier was born and grew up in the French town Ambérieu-en-Bugey. Her father was a gendarme. Her family moved to French Indochina and returned to France before the 1954 Geneva Conference. When she was 18 years old, the director of the casino of Saint-Raphaël invited her to compete in the Miss Saint-Raphaël beauty pageant contest that was taking place the same night. She won the contest and moved on to participate to the Miss France contest.{{cite web |url=https://www.leprogres.fr/ain-01-edition-amberieu-et-bas-bugey/2019/08/03/denise-perrier-miss-monde-1953-je-me-souviens-de-mon-ecole |title=Denise Perrier, Miss monde 1953 : « Je me souviens de mon école » |website=Leprogres.fr |date=3 August 2019 |language=fr}}

Denise Perrier was crowned Miss France World 1953 by Miss France World 1952, Nicole Drouin. She represented France in the Miss World 1953 pageant. Perrier was the chosen as Miss World during that year's pageant,{{cite book|last=Rose|first=David|title=Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland: More Personal Ads from the London Review of Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSNpHWBeHucC&pg=PA149|access-date=24 September 2011|date=2 February 2010|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-2564-9|pages=149–}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aCg_AAAAIBAJ&pg=6058,1348701&dq=denise+perrier+miss+world&hl=en|title=Miss Egypt Says Crown Should Go To American|date=20 October 1953|work=Windsor Daily Star|access-date=24 September 2011}} representing France, the same year that Christiane Martel of France also won the Miss Universe pageant. She was the first French woman to win this title.{{in lang|fr}} [https://www.parismatch.com/People/Miss-France-1953-a-choisi-l-amour-1591774 Miss France 1953 : aux couronnes, elle préfère l’amour], Parismatch.com, 15 December 2018 She met Julia Morley and they became close friends.

Perrier has also acted in films. Her most memorable scene is an uncredited appearance in the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever.{{in lang|fr}} {{cite web |last=Mikanowski |first=David |url=https://www.programme-tv.net/news/cinema/69714-le-monde-ne-suffit-pas-france-3-sophie-marceau-denise-perrier-eva-green-qui-sont-les-james-bond-girls-francaises-22-photos/ |title=Opération tonnerre (France 4) : Claudine Augier, Sophie Marceau, Eva Green... Qui sont les James Bond girls françaises? |website=Programme-tv.net |date=5 December 2018 |language=fr}} In the scene, after a little persuasion from James Bond, who starts throttling her with the top of her bikini, she gives up and reveals the location of the villain of the film. She has stated she asked Sean Connery to go a little rough on her to make the strangling look more believable, and he complied.

After leaving her modelling career, Perrier became active in local government in her native France. She held three municipal mandates in the list of Jacques Médecin, then the Mayor of Nice.

She was one of the judges at the 2005, 2010, 2011 and 2013 Miss World contests.