- In the documentary Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000), Michael Lonsdale tells a very poignant anecdote related to the actress: Delphine had once made him a gift of a succulent plant that grew flowers about every two years. He claims that it kept flourishing for about 15 years, but never again after Delphine's death.
- She once criticized the movies of Ingmar Bergman for their unrealistic portrayal of the relationships between women and compared them unfavorably to the plays of Henrik Ibsen, whom she admired for his ability to offer more authentic portrayals of female characters.
- She signed the Manifesto of the 343 to support the legalization of abortion in France.
- She often wore Chanel. She got to know the stylist as she first designed her clothes for Last Year at Marienbad (1961).
- The feasts she had at her apartment in Place des Vosges were legendary among French actors. Jean-Pierre Marielle once called her apartment the best night club in all of Paris.
- She was short of breath. She had some nodules on her vocal cords, which caused her to give a particular rhythm to her sentences out of fear of not finishing them. These trademark intonations are one of the reasons her voice is considered by many the most beautiful of French cinema.
- She once joked that, had she not been an actress, her ideal job would have been to sell tickets at the cinema, so that she could see a lot of movies.
- In his autobiography "Désordre", Jean-Claude Carrière tells a very funny anecdote related to the actress. His friend Guy Bechtel had called his daughter Delphine. The girl was born in the 50's and Carrière was her stepfather. The writer asked his friend why he had picked this name, imagining that the actress couldn't have inspired this choice. Bechtel told him that he had named his daughter after a Delphine he had once met in a provincial Protestant college after the war, a head-turner who had won the hearts of all the boys. Carrière later found out that it was Delphine Seyrig indeed.
- Marguerite Duras once called her a 'famous stranger' with regards to her relatively little fame among large audiences.
- She was fluent in German due to her Alsatian ancestry.
- She was well-known for having great power on the stage plays she starred in, usually choosing her directors herself or making them bend to her wishes.
- Tilda Swinton named Delphine as a major role model, stating that she was particularly influenced by her work in Last Year at Marienbad (1961).
- She admired Marilyn Monroe both for her acting abilities and for her patience to pose for Hollywood photographers.
- Shortly before she died, she had approached her frequent collaborator Chantal Akerman, asking her to direct a stage production of "A Streetcar named Desire" where she wished to play Blanche. Akerman wasn't available and the production was never done. The director later stated that, had she been familiar with Delphine's illness, she would have done it.
- As of February 2014, she's the only 20th century actress who has a Paris rue wearing her name. There was talk in 2013 to name another one after Romy Schneider, but the project has been indefinitely postponed.
- She's buried at the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. When he was director of the "Théâtre Montparnasse", Gaston Baty had one door opened on the wall that separates the theatre from the cemetery, so that he could easily visit the tomb of 19th century stage legend Marie Dorval, whom he worshiped. Being familiar with this anecdote, Delphine chose to be buried against the wall of the cemetery.
- Once mentioned the role of Countess Bathory in Daughters of Darkness (1971) as the favourite of her career.
- Peter Greenaway named Delphine as his favourite actress.
- She appeared in 6 movies with Michael Lonsdale: Comédie (1966), Stolen Kisses (1968), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Aloïse (1975), India Song (1975) and Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (1976). The two actors also worked together in several stage productions, including La chevauchée sur le lac de Constance (1974), which was filmed.
- One year after Stolen Kisses (1968), she collaborated again with François Truffaut in Mississippi Mermaid (1969). Her voice can be heard reading the newspaper announcements at the beginning of the movie and during the restaurant scene later on.
- In the early 60s, she introduced her former mentor Lee Strasberg to the French theatre world. She dreamed of a method acting workshop being started in Paris.
- She was well-known for not caring about awards. She never attended the Césars when she was nominated and even refused the "Prix du Syndicat de la Critique" that she won for her stage performance in "Sarah et le cri de la langouste".
- In her autobiography "Le temps et rien d'autre", Françoise Fabian shares an anecdote about a stage production of Harold Pinter's "Old Times" where she starred opposite Delphine and Jean Rochefort. It was an habit for spectators to arrive even ten minutes after the beginning of a performance, consequently making distracting noises. Irritated by this, Delphine chose one evening to enter the stage, sit on the couch she had to and then stay in silence for about ten minutes as a form of provocation. Only after everyone had taken his seat, she delivered her first line.
- There's a Rue Delphine Seyrig in Paris: a métro station and university residence wearing the actress' name are located there.
- She adopted her cat Olivia while doing a stage production of Harold Pinter's "The Collection". They appeared in about 200 performances together.
- When she moved to New York in the 50s, her dream was to play Cleopatra opposite Marlon Brando's Antony on Broadway. She eventually went on to play the role in 1976 in a London production at the Young Vic theatre opposite actor Michael Graham Cox.
- Cool, auburn-haired French actress, born in Lebanon. Spent part of her early childhood in New York, where her archaeologist father was cultural attaché. Acted on the Parisian stage from 1952-55. Returned to New York to attend classes at the Actor's Studio. Appeared on stage in Arthur Miller's adaptation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People". On the strength of her performance, she was cast in the lead of Last Year at Marienbad (1961) by director Alain Resnais. Subsequently acted in films by major European film makers, including Joseph Losey, Luis Bunuel and Francois Truffaut.
- During the shooting of Muriel (1963), Alain Resnais introduced her to Agnès Varda, Liliane de Kermadec and Marguerite Duras. Delphine told the three female filmmakers that, had they needed her, she would have been glad to work with them. She went on to work with all three.
- While in England to star in a stage production of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant", she went to visit the Chiswick Refuge Centre for victims of domestic violence set up by Erin Pizzey. She wanted to set up a similar one in Paris.
- Before she died, she was considering to direct a western and a sequel to her documentary Sois belle et tais-toi! (1981).
- During her 1956-1961 stay in New York, she lived in Greenwich village.
- It was thanks to her power of persuasion that Harold Pinter accepted that his plays 'The Lover', 'The Collection' and 'Old Times' would be performed in France for the first time. In his autobiography 'Ce genre de choses', Jean Rochefort offers an hilarious recounting of the meeting: he and Delphine had flown to London to convince Pinter to give his permission for the plays to be performed. During their meeting at the bar of the Savoy Hotel, Rochefort, who could barely speak English, was just repeating the sentence 'We are before a wall' with regards to the stubbornness of Pinter's refusal, something that was deeply annoying the author. It was only thanks to Delphine's charms and communication skills that Pinter eventually reconsidered and gave his approval to the project.
- In the early stages of her career, many thought that her unique, now immensely celebrated voice would be an obstacle to a successful acting future. She even saw some coaches that tried to teach her how to change it.
- She used to credit Alain Resnais for having passed on to her the love for cinema.
- Friends with Marguerite Duras, Simone Signoret, Jacqueline Veuve, Jean Rochefort, Jane Fonda, Jenny Runacre, William Klein, Andrea Rau.
- Michael Lonsdale nicknamed her "The Actress with the Cello Voice".
- She personally introduced Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989) at the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1989.
- Born the same day as Omar Sharif.
- Sister of Francis Seyrig
- She considered herself a feminist who was additionally socialist as opposed to her friend Jane Fonda, whom she called a socialist who was additionally feminist.
- In the 70's she proposed a deal to Marguerite Duras: she offered her to star in 12 of her movies every year just on the condition that she would have been given a few days off every month. The contract was never sealed, as Duras couldn't apparently come out with 12 scripts a year.
- Always kept visiting son Duncan Youngerman in New York after he relocated there to study.
- She used to ride a motor-scooter.
- Her neighbors in Place Des Vosges were Annie Girardot and Francis Blanche.
- She first met Ulrike Ottinger at the 1975 Bruxelles Film Festival where the director's first movies (Berlinfieber - Wolf Vostell (1973), Laocoon & Sons (1975) and The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (1975)) were shown. Delphine congratulated the director on the courage and originality of her works and told her that she would have been glad to work with her in the future. She did.
- She often collaborated with choreographer Maurice Béjart, providing voice-over for some of his documentaries or filmed ballet productions.
- Her friend Jean-Claude Carrière stated that she used to lend her apartment in Place des Vosges to women who wanted to have abortions under the assistance of licensed doctors.
- In 1972, she lent her apartment to Harvey Karman to give the first ever demonstration of the 'super coil' abortion technique.
- Her biographer François Poiriée coined the nickname Déesse for her because her initials D. (French pronunciation: de) and S. (French pronunciation: es) form the word Déesse (Goddess).
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