Dany Carrel

Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles du Chaxel, better known as Dany Carrel, is a French actress. She was born in Tourane, today Đà Nẵng (Vietnam - then French Indochina) to French father Marie Yves Aimé du Chaxel, a local Customs general manager, and his Vietnamese mistress, Kam. 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.