Denise Vernac

{{Short description|French actress (1916–1984)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Denise Vernac

| image = Denise Vernac - regards 1946.jpg

| alt =

| caption = in Regards magazine, 1946

| birth_name = Denise Yvonne Eveillard

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|6|3|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Les Pavillons-sous-Bois, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|10|31|1916|6|3|df=yes}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| othername =

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1939–1966

| spouse =

| domesticpartner = Erich von Stroheim (1939–1957)

| website =

| children = Josef von Stroheim

}}

Denise Vernac (née Denise Yvonne Eveillard;{{Cite web |title=Vernac, Denise (1916–1984) |url=https://www.idref.fr/197769659 |website=idref.fr}} 3 June 1916 – 31 October 1984), was a French film actress. She appeared in seventeen films, between 1939 and 1966.Database (undated). [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0894484/filmotype "Filmography by Type for Denise Vernac"]. The Internet Movie Database. Accessed 20 August 2010.

Additionally, Vernac was the secretary and romantic companion of Erich von Stroheim, an Austrian-American actor, film director and producer, and screenwriter.{{Cite magazine |last= |first= |date=1946-10-21 |title=Life Visits a Billionaires' Club |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mE0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA142 |magazine=Life |publisher=Time, Inc. |pages=142}}{{Cite journal |last=Schmidlin |first=Rick |date=2006 |title=My Saga of the Newly Discovered Estate of Erich von Stroheim |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41167254 |journal=The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=101–109 |issn=1532-3978}}{{Cite book |last=Lennig |first=Arthur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVHg3VOmGL4C&pg=PA393 |title=Stroheim |date=2003-04-18 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-9044-0 |pages=393 |language=en}}

She died at age 68 and is buried in the cemetery in Maurepas, Yvelines.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}