Dani
Known For
Acting
Born
1944-10-01 in Castres, Tarn, France
Died
2022-07-18
Biography
Danièle Graule (1 October 1944 – 18 July 2022), known as Dani (sometimes as Dany), was a French actress and singer. Dani was born in Castres. In 1966 she was contracted to Pathé-Marconi and released her first single "Garçon manqué". In 1968 "Papa vient d'épouser la bonne" sold a million copies and was a major hit. Dani was meant to have been France's Eurovision Song Contest 1974 entry with the song "La Vie à 25 ans", but President Georges Pompidou died in the week of the competition, so she never entered Eurovision properly. Her only English language record release to date was "That Old Familiar Feeling", which had the same music as "La Vie à 25 ans" but with English lyrics by British singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul. On the cinema screen, she played the script-girl Liliane in François Truffaut's Day for Night and in the last Antoine Doinel-adventure Love on the Run a short-time-affair of Antoine, Christine's friend Liliane. Truffaut who made her famous with one role in two movies: she is Liliane in Day for Night. The fickle girlfriend of actor Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) recruited as a script trainee who is pinching for the English stuntman. In 1978, this Liliane became the friend of Christine Doinel alias Claude Jade in the final film of the Doinel cyclus. Truffaut used Liliane's flashbacks for Love on the Run. Here Liliane becomes the best friend of Christine (Claude Jade). And later, she has an affair with her husband Antoine, again Jean-Pierre Léaud. Thanks to the installation of new and old scenes, Claude Jade also mounted in the flashbacks of Day for Night, it seems Dani was already part of the Doinel Cycle. She died in Tours on 18 July 2022, aged 77. Source: Article "Dani (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Most Known For
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
Champs-Elysées
as Self
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
Numéro un
as Self
Victoires de la musique
as Self
Midi trente
as Self
Le monde est à vous
as Self
Capitaine Marleau
as Elvira Chastagne
Police Commissioner Moulin
as La mère de Momo
Dim Dam Dom
as Self
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
as Brigitte Helm (voice)
Rogue City
as Angelina Maranzano
Monsieur Abel
as La serveuse
Delphine
as l'assistante de Delphine
Claudine
as Rézy Lambrook
Day for Night
as Liliane, the Trainee Script Girl
My King
as Mysterious lady at the wedding
Princesses
as Léa
Love on the Run
as Liliane
Sleep Tight
as Néfertiti