Dani

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 fri…

Movies & TV Shows

1. My King (2015) — Mysterious lady at the wedding
2. Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2014) — Brigitte Helm (voice)
3. Day for Night (1973) — Liliane, the Trainee Script Girl
4. Rogue City (2020) — Angelina Maranzano
5. Carbone (2017) — Dolly Wizman
6. Love on the Run (1979) — Liliane
7. Story of Women (1988) — Loulou
8. Guy (2018) — Anne-Marie
9. Avenue Montaigne (2006) — Claudie
10. The Car Keys (2003) — Big Middle-class Woman
11. On Air (2012) — Barka
12. Some Too Quiet Gentlemen (1973) — Odette
13. Capitaine Marleau (2015) — Elvira Chastagne
14. I Can't Sleep (1994) — Seamstress
15. 1974, une partie de campagne (2002) — Self
16. Circle of Love (1964)
17. War on Beasts (2018) — Mère Martel
18. Police Commissioner Moulin (1976) — La mère de Momo
19. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
20. Sleep Tight (2003) — Néfertiti
21. Morning Dew (2018) — The florist
22. Princesses (2000) — Léa
23. Claudine (1978) — Rézy Lambrook
24. Sacrée soirée (1987) — Self
25. Drôle de genre (2003) — Lou Wand
26. Gainsbourg and His Girls (2010) — Self - Singer (voice)
27. Chance at Love (1964) — Hélène's friend ('Fiancés de la chance, Les') (uncredited)
28. Victoires de la musique (1985) — Self
29. Les Anneaux de Bicêtre (1977) — Lina
30. Delphine (1969) — l'assistante de Delphine
31. The Girl Across the Way (1968) — Martine
32. Michel Delpech &... live at the Grand Rex, Paris (2007) — Self
33. Dim Dam Dom (1965) — Self
34. Numéro un (1975) — Self
35. A Police Officer Without Importance (1973) — Joëlle
36. La croisade des enfants (1988) — Une prostituée
37. La Robe à cerceau (1993)
38. La Génération Salut les copains (2019) — Self
39. Monsieur Abel (1983) — La serveuse
40. Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) — Self