Dominique Darel

{{short description|French model and actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Dominique Darel | image = Dominique Darel.jpg | image_size = 220px | alt = A black-and-white photograph of Dominique Darel from 1973 | caption = Dominique Darel, 1973 | birth_date = 1950 | birth_place = Cannes, France | death_date = June 4, 1978 | death_place = Cannes, France | occupation = French model and actress | years_active = Late 1960s–1978 | known_for = Maria Romana De Gasperi in Roberto Rossellini's ''Year One'' }}

'''Dominique Darel''' (1950–1978) was a French model and actress, mainly active in Italian cinema.

== Biography == Dominique Darel was born in Cannes and moved to Rome with her boyfriend Max Delys in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boero |first=Beatrice |date=2021-01-13 |title=Roma vintage, i favolosi anni '70 e i miti di quel tempo |url=https://www.italiachiamaitalia.it/roma-vintage-i-favolosi-anni-70-e-i-miti-di-quel-tempo/ |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=Italia Chiama Italia |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref name="cdcd">{{cite news|title=E' morta Dominique Darel|newspaper=La Stampa|date=7 June 1978}}</ref>

Darel made her film debut in Luchino Visconti's ''Death in Venice'', then became a minor starlet in Italian genre cinema.<ref name="hg">{{cite book|last=Centro sperimentale di cinematografia|title=Bianco e Nero, Volume 39|publisher=Società Gestione Editoriali., 1978}}</ref> She appeared in ''Andy Warhol's Dracula'' (1974), and for a pictorial that was published in the August 1974 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine, Warhol photographed Darel and Delys nude with his Polaroid camera in 1973.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=August 1974 |title=Instant |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_playboy_1974-08_21_8/page/n91/mode/2up?q=warhol |journal=Playboy |volume=21 |issue=8 |pages=83–85}}</ref> She is probably best known for the role of Maria Romana De Gasperi in Roberto Rossellini's ''Year One''.

Darel died at 28, on June 4, 1978, in a car accident in Cannes.<ref name="cdcd" /><ref name="hg" />

== Filmography ==

* 1971: ''Death in Venice'' * 1972: ''La cosa buffa'' * 1972: ''The Grand Duel'' * 1973: ''Woman Buried Alive'' * 1974: ''Blood for Dracula'' * 1974: ''Year One'' * 1977: ''Difficile morire''

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0201150}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Darel, Dominique}} Category:French film actresses Category:1978 deaths Category:Road incident deaths in France Category:1950 births Category:People from Cannes Category:Actresses from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Category:French female models Category:20th-century French actresses Category:Models from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur