Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is known as one of Europe's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols from the 1960s and 1970s. He achieved critical acclaim for roles in films such as Purple Noon (1960), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), L'Eclisse (1962), The Leopard (1963), Le Samouraï (1967), La Piscine (1969), Le Cercle Rouge (1970), Un flic (1972), and Monsieur Klein (1976). Over the course of his career Delon worked with many well-known directors, including Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Louis Malle. As a singer, Delon recorded the popular duet "Paroles, paroles" (1973) with Dalida. 

In 1985, he won the César Award for Best Actor for his performance in Notre histoire (1984). In 1991, he received France's Legion of Honour. In 1995, at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Honorary Golden Bear. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, he received the Honorary Palme d'Or.

​He acquired Swiss citizenship in 1999.

​Alain Delon, né le 8 novembre 1935 à Sceaux, est un acteur franco-suisse.

Il est aussi producteur à travers sa société Adel Productions, et a également réalisé deux films.

Sa carrière commence en 1957. Acteur parmi les plus populaires du cinéma français, il joue dans des films qui attirent en salles un total de quelque 134 millions de spectateurs, ce qui fait de lui un champion du box-office au même titre que Louis de Funès et Jean-Paul Belmondo à la même époque. Ayant partagé l'affiche avec de grands acteurs tels que Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Romy Schneider ou Lino Ventura, un grand nombre de films dans lesquels il a joué sont devenus des classiques du cinéma, parmi lesquels : Plein Soleil, Rocco et ses frères, Le Guépard, L'Insoumis, Le Samouraï, La Piscine, Le Clan des Siciliens, Le Cercle rouge, Borsalino, Monsieur Klein ou Notre histoire.

Bien que n'ayant pas souhaité persister à Hollywood, il dispose d'une renommée mondiale, aux États-Unis aussi bien qu'en Europe — en particulier en Italie —, ainsi qu'en Asie, où il a développé des activités entrepreneuriales. Il obtient en 1985 le César du meilleur acteur pour Notre histoire, et une Palme d'honneur lors du festival de Cannes 2019 pour l'ensemble de sa carrière.

Alain Delon was born in Sceaux, Seine (now Hauts-de-Seine), Île-de-France, a wealthy suburb of Paris. His parents, Édith (née Arnold; 1911–1995) and Fabien Delon (1904–1977), divorced when Delon was four. Both remarried and, as a result, Delon has a half-sister and two half-brothers. His paternal grandmother was Corsican, from Prunelli-di-Fiumorbo. When his parents divorced, Delon was sent to live with foster parents; after the foster parents died, Delon's parents took shared custody of him, but the arrangement proved unsatisfactory. He attended a Catholic boarding school, the first of several schools from which he was expelled because of unruly behavior. Delon left school at 14, and worked for a brief time at his stepfather's butcher shop. He enlisted in the French Navy three years later, aged 17, and during 1953–1954 he served as a fusilier marin in the First Indochina War.

​In 1956, after being dishonorably discharged from the navy, Delon returned to France. He had little money, and got by on whatever employment he could find. He spent time working as a waiter, a porter, a secretary and a sales assistant. During this time he became friends with the actress Brigitte Auber, and joined her on a trip to the Cannes Film Festival, where his film career would begin.

At Cannes, Delon was seen by a talent scout for David O. Selznick. After a screen test Selznick offered him a contract, provided he learn English. Delon returned to Paris to study the language, but when he met French director Yves Allégret, he was convinced that he should stay in France to begin his career. Selznick allowed Delon to cancel his contract, and Allégret gave him his debut in the film with Edwige Feuillère, Quand la femme s'en mêle (1957) (Send a Woman When the Devil Fails). Marc Allégret cast him in Be Beautiful But Shut Up (1958), which featured a young Jean-Paul Belmondo.

During their relationship, he had an affair with German actress, singer and model Nico. In 1962, Nico gave birth to a son, Christian Aaron Boulogne (Ari Päffgen) "Ari", but Delon never recognized the child as his; Ari was raised mostly by Delon's parents. ​

​Delon was given the lead in the comedy Women Are Weak (1959). This was a big hit in France and was the first of Delon's films to be seen in America. Delon made some personal appearances in New York to promote the movie. He was a known friend of Serbian-born gangster Vojislav Stanimirovic.

Delon next made two films that ensured his international reputation. In 1960, he appeared in René Clément's Plein Soleil, released in the US as Purple Noon, which was based on the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Delon played protagonist Tom Ripley to critical acclaim; Highsmith was a fan of his portrayal. The movie was a hit in France and on the art house circuit in English-speaking countries. He then played the title role in Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers (1960).

Delon made his stage debut in 1961 in the John Ford play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore alongside Romy Schneider in Paris. Visconti directed the production which broke box office records.

Around this time Delon was mentioned as a possibility for the lead in Lawrence of Arabia. Peter O'Toole was cast instead, but then Delon was cast by Michelangelo Antonioni opposite Monica Vitti in L'Eclisse (1962), a major critical success, although audiences were small. 

​Producer Jacques Bar was making a heist film with Jean Gabin with backing from MGM, titled Any Number Can Win (1963). Gabin's co-star was meant to be Jean-Louis Trintignant until Delon lobbied Bar for the role. He took the film's distribution rights in certain countries instead of a straight salary. Because this had never been done before in France, this was known as "Delon's method." The gamble paid off well, with Jean Gabin later claiming that Delon earned 10 times more money than he did as a result. The experience gave Delon a taste for producing. He also signed a five-picture deal with MGM, of which Any Number Can Win was the first. His reputation was further enhanced when he worked with Visconti again for Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) with Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale. This was the seventh biggest hit of the year in France; Any Number Can Win was the sixth. The Leopard was also widely screened in the U.S. through 20th Century Fox. Delon was now one of the most popular stars in France.

In 1963, Alain Delon was involved with French actress Nathalie Barthélémy while still engaged to Romy Schneider. When Nathalie Barthélémy became pregnant  with Alain Delon's son Anthony, Schneider and Delon decided to break up.

In 1964, the Cinémathèque Française held a showcase of Delon's films and Delon started a production company, Delbeau Production, with Georges Beaume. They produced a film called The Unvanquished (L'insoumis) (1964), where Delon played an OAS assassin. It had to be re-edited because of legal issues. Despite being distributed by MGM, audiences were small.

On 13 August 1964, Delon married Nathalie Barthélémy. Their son, Anthony Delon, was born. ​

While making La Piscine, Delon's friend and bodyguard Stevan Marković was found murdered in a rubbish dump near Paris. The police investigation went on to reveal allegations of sex parties involving celebrities such as Delon and members of government including future French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou, whose wife, Claude Pompidou, was allegedly the focus of a series of compromising photos at one such party. Corsican crime boss François Marcantoni, a friend of Delon, was suspected of involvement. The affair gained notoriety throughout France and in the French press as the "Marković affair". In a 1969 BBC interview, Delon was questioned about his alleged involvement in the death of Marković, rumours of his involvement in sex parties, and Delon's own sexual tastes.

Delon then starred in a series of gangster films with the most popular being Borsalino (1970), which Delon produced and in which he co-starred opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo. Neither of these broke through in the US the way Delon hoped. Neither did The Red Circle, despite Delon appearing with Yves Montand. For a change of pace, he produced a romantic drama, The Love Mates (1971), which was not a success. Neither was the comedy Easy, Down There! (1971).

​In the early 1970s, Delon made another attempt at the English speaking market. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) for Joseph Losey was poorly received but Red Sun (1972), with Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune, did well. In France, he made his third film with Melville, Un flic (1972).

In 1973, he recorded a duet with Dalida, "Paroles, paroles", that went on to become one of the most recognizable French songs. The two had been friends since first meeting in Paris in 1955, where they were neighbors in a building located in the Champs-Élysées and had a short relationship in the 1950s.

Delon tried again for Hollywood stardom with Scorpio (1973), which was only a minor hit. In France, Delon returned to his first swashbuckler since The Black Tulip, playing the title character in the 1975 Italian-French film Zorro. In 1976, Delon starred in Monsieur Klein, for which he was nominated for the César Award.

In the 1970s, Delon expanded his interests. He bought trotters (harness racing) and promoted fights. Since the formation of a perfume label in his name, Delon has had a variety of products sold under his name including wristwatches, clothing, eyewear, stationery and cigarettes. Delon's sunglasses brand became particularly popular in Hong Kong after actor Chow Yun-fat wore them in the 1986 crime film A Better Tomorrow (as well as two sequels). Delon reportedly wrote a letter thanking Chow for helping the sunglasses sell out in the region. The film's director John Woo has acknowledged Delon as one of his idols and wrote a short essay on Le Samourai as well as Le Cercle Rouge for the Criterion Collection DVD releases.

In 1979, Delon stated only a quarter of his business activities involve films, that he also has "a helicopter business, build furniture, promote prize fights, and race horses", and that he was still interested in becoming a star in America. That same year he made a final attempt at Hollywood stardom, starring in The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979). The film was not a big success. Delon returned to produce and make French films.

In 1985, He was awarded the Best Actor César Award for his role in Bertrand Blier's Notre histoire (1984), and portrayed the aristocratic dandy Baron de Charlus in a film adaptation of Marcel Proust's novel Swann in Love in the same year.

In 1987, Delon met Dutch model Rosalie van Breemen on the set of the music video for his song "Comme au cinéma" and started a relationship. They had two children: Anouchka Delon (25 November 1990) and Alain-Fabien Delon (18 March 1994). The relationship ended in 2001.

​In 2001, Delon starred in the French television drama Fabio Montale. He played an ageing policeman dressed in stylish clothes, a "signature Delon" role for audiences. The show was a big hit. In 2003, Delon tried to recreate the success of Fabio Montale and produced and starred in another French television police drama, Frank Riva. It did well but less so than Fabio Montale. He starred, in 2008, as Jules Cesar in the box-office hit Asterix aux jeux Olympiques which co-starred Gérard Depardieu. Around this time he mostly took roles in TV movies and also played some roles on the French stage. He directed a TV movie himself in 2008 co-starring Anouk Aimee, titled Love Letters based on a play by A.R. Gurney. In 2018, after a seven-year hiatus from cinema, Delon was planning to star in a new movie, titled La Maison Vide, co-starring Juliette Binoche and directed by Patrice Leconte. However, in November 2018 the French media announced that the project was canceled.

Delon's last roles to date have been in the 2011 television movie Une journée ordinaire, in the 2019 movie Toute Ressemblance as a guest in a talkshow.

Delon suffered a stroke in June 2019. He was admitted to hospital after experiencing dizziness and headaches. In August 2019, he was recovering in a Swiss hospital.

Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon naît le 8 novembre 1935 à Sceaux, dans le département de la Seine (actuellement les Hauts-de-Seine). Fils de Fabien Delon (1904-1977), directeur du cinéma de Bourg-la-Reine, Le Régina, et d'Édith Arnold (1911-1995), employée dans une pharmacie, il est né dans une famille de la petite bourgeoisie. Les Delon sont originaires de Saint-Vincent-Lespinasse, en Tarn-et-Garonne.

En 1939, Alain Delon a quatre ans lorsque ses parents divorcent. Il est alors confié à une famille d’accueil, ce qui restera pour lui une blessure d'enfance jamais cicatrisée. Il est placé ensuite dans la pension catholique de Saint-Nicolas d'Igny, dans l'Essonne, où il passe toute sa jeunesse avec un de ses meilleurs amis, Gérard Salomé. Il se fait renvoyer six fois des écoles qu'il fréquente. Sa mère qui a épousé en secondes noces Paul Boulogne, un commerçant boucher-charcutier de Bourg-la-Reine, lui ménage une place dans le domicile familial. Alain passe un CAP de charcuterie et travaille à la charcuterie de son beau-père qui compte seize employés.

À 14 ans, il a l'occasion de tourner le rôle d'un voyou dans Le Rapt, un court-métrage muet de 22 secondes réalisé par Olivier Bourguignon, le père de l'un de ses amis. Au même âge, il fait une fugue dans le but d'aller vivre à Chicago, mais il est arrêté à Bordeaux.

Devançant l'appel sous les drapeaux, il effectue à 17 ans son service militaire dans la Marine nationale. Après un passage au Centre de formation maritime de Pont-Réan, il poursuit son service militaire en 1953 à l'École des transmissions des Bormettes. Après qu'il a été pris pour un vol de matériel, la Marine nationale lui laisse le choix entre quitter la Marine ou prolonger son engagement de trois à cinq ans. Matelot de 1re classe, il est alors affecté à la compagnie de protection de l'arsenal de Saïgon. Vers la fin de la guerre d'Indochine, il est mis aux arrêts pour avoir volé une jeep et fait une virée au cours de laquelle le véhicule est tombé dans un arroyo. Son brevet de radio lui est retiré et il est exclu de la Marine. Cette période le marque profondément : il découvre la discipline militaire, le sens de l'honneur et du drapeau de la France. Il se prend de passion pour les armes, et est subjugué par Jean Gabin dans Touchez pas au grisbi, film qu'il voit dans la capitale indochinoise.

De retour en 1956 à Paris, où il fait la connaissance de la future Dalida, avec qui il a ensuite une liaison, il enchaîne les petits métiers, notamment comme débardeur aux Halles et serveur dans un café près des Champs Élyséesd. À Montmartre, il côtoie le monde de la pègre et des gigolos. Sa rencontre amoureuse avec Brigitte Auber au Club Saint-Germain l'éloigne de cet univers et change son parcours. Dans le quartier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, il se fait remarquer par Jean-Claude Brialy qui l'invite au Festival de Cannes, où son physique et sa « gueule d'ange » ne passent pas inaperçus. Il fait un bout d'essai concluant et aborde ainsi le milieu du cinéma, sans formation particulière d’acteur.

À Rome, où Alain Delon vit avec Gian Paolo Barbieri, qui deviendra un photographe célèbre, il est remarqué par le célèbre producteur de films et découvreur de talents américain David O. Selznick, qui lui propose un contrat de sept ans aux États-Unis à la condition qu'il apprenne l'anglais. De retour en France, Delon se met donc à l'étude de cette langue, mais il rencontre Yves Allégret, qui le convainc de rester en France.

En 1957, Michèle Cordoue, dont il est l'amant, convainc son mari, le réalisateur Yves Allégret, de l'engager pour tourner son premier film Quand la femme s'en mêle. Il y joue un petit rôle aux côtés de la star Edwige Feuillère. Alain Delon raconte : « Je ne savais rien faire. Allégret m'a regardé comme ça et il m'a dit : « Écoute-moi bien, Alain. Parle comme tu me parles. Regarde comme tu me regardes. Écoute comme tu m'écoutes. Ne joue pas, vis ». Ça a tout changé. Si Yves Allégret ne m'avait pas dit ça, je n'aurais pas eu cette carrière ».

En 1958, il rencontre Romy Schneider sur le tournage du film Christine, réalisé par Pierre Gaspard-Huit, avec son ami Jean-Claude Brialy et Micheline Presle. Le coup de foudre est réciproque. Il a vingt-deux ans, elle en a dix-neuf ; Ils sont surnommés « les fiancés de l’Europe ». Ils incarnent la beauté, la jeunesse, le succès et deviennent un couple célébré par le show-business et le public.

Ils se fiancent le 22 mars 1959, sur le lac de Lugano dans la maison des parents Schneider, sous les feux de la presse. 

Après Christine, où il tenait son premier rôle important, Delon rencontre son premier succès dans Faibles Femmes de Michel Boisrond.

En 1963, il joue le rôle de Tancrède dans Le Guépard de Luchino Visconti, en compagnie de Claudia Cardinale et de Burt Lancaster ; le film obtient la Palme d'or au festival de Cannes, et restera comme un de ses plus grands rôles, achevant de faire d'Alain Delon un acteur majeur du grand cinéma européen.

La même année, il tourne, sous la direction de Henri Verneuil, Mélodie en sous-sol, récompensé par le Golden Globe du meilleur film en langue étrangère. C'est lors du tournage de ce classique du genre policier que Delon rencontre Jean Gabin. Cette série de films est considérée comme une suite de chefs-d'œuvre. Alain Delon s'impose également en héros de film d'aventures dans La Tulipe noire, de Christian-Jaque, avec Virna Lisi.

De 1959 à 1963, Alain Delon et Romy Schneider ont une histoire d'amour.

La chanteuse allemande, Nico, avec qui il a eu une relation, met au monde un fils, Christian Aaron Boulogne dit Ari Boulogne, le 11 août 1962. Même si l'enfant a été élevé par la mère d'Alain Delon et adopté par son beau-père, Alain Delon a toujours nié être son père.

Le 13 août 1964, un an après sa rupture avec Romy Schneider, il épouse Francine Canovas (Francine débutera au cinéma en 1967, sous le nom de Nathalie Delon dans le film de Melville Le Samouraï) à La Ville-aux-Clercs. Leur fils Anthony naît le 30 septembre 1964, à Hollywood, où l'acteur a signé un contrat de longue durée, car il veut y faire carrière. Déçu par la qualité des films, il résilie son contrat.

En 1967, Alain et Nathalie tournent ensemble dans Le Samouraï, le classique de Jean-Pierre Melville. 

​En résidence séparée à partir du 19 octobre 1967, le couple divorce le 14 février 1969.

Entre 1968 et 1983, Alain Delon partage la vie de l'actrice Mireille Darc.

En 1970, Delon tourne avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, son unique rival dans le cinéma français, Borsalino, classique du film de gangsters signé Jacques Deray.

En 1970 et 1972, Delon tourne de nouveau avec un de ses maîtres, Jean-Pierre Melville, Le Cercle rouge, et Un flic qui marque sa rencontre professionnelle avec Catherine Deneuve. Durant la décennie, il développe et pousse à l'extrême deux aspects essentiels de son personnage cinématographique : le fétichisme du vêtement (chapeau et imperméable) et le professionnalisme. On retrouve cet aspect dans Le Cercle rouge, Un flic et Borsalino and Co.…

En 1974, Delon accepte le rôle principal de Zorro.

Dans les années 1970 et au début des années 1980, Alain Delon apparaît dans un grand nombre de films d'action, en majorité des polars, où il interprète des personnages de héros, ou parfois d'anti-héros tragiques. Il tentera de nouvelles incursions dans le cinéma américain en tenant l'un des rôles principaux du thriller Scorpio et du film catastrophe Airport 80 Concorde qui ne remporte pas un grand succès commercial.

En 1973, il connaît un succès international dans le monde musical aux côtés de son amie Dalida avec le duo Paroles... Paroles.... .Au milieu des années 1960, Alain Delon vit une idylle avec Dalida, bien que les deux soient amis depuis leur première rencontre à Paris, en 1955, alors qu'ils étaient voisins de palier dans un immeuble situé avenue des Champs-Élysées.

En 1978, il crée à Genève sa société de diffusion de produits de luxe, Alain Delon Diffusion SA ; sous son nom, on trouve des parfums comme AD, suivi en 1981 d'une fragrance pour femme, « Le Temps d'Aimer ». Ces deux lignes ont été remplacées par d'autres fragrances, telles que « Samouraï », « Samouraï Woman », « Shogun » ou encore « Samouraï Woman Pinkberry ». La société de l'acteur vend aussi du champagne, du cognac, des montres, des lunettes, des cigarettes, ainsi que des vêtements et des accessoires à son nom. Les concepteurs de ces différents produits ne sont pas connus. L'acteur Chow Yun-fat porte des lunettes de soleil de la marque « Alain Delon » dans le film Le Syndicat du crime et ses deux suites ; John Woo, le réalisateur, a déclaré par ailleurs être un admirateur de Delon et de son jeu d'acteur.

En 1981, Delon réalise son premier film, un polar, Pour la peau d'un flic, d'après Jean-Patrick Manchette, qui révèle Anne Parillaud. Il joue dans Trois Hommes à abattre, où il rencontre Dalila Di Lazzaro.

Étant producteur, Delon avoue que tous les films incluant dans leur titre le terme « Flic », qu'il choisit lui-même, s'avérent être des succès commerciaux.

Il revient à la réalisation en 1983 pour Le Battant, avec de nouveau Anne Parillaud et Richard Anconina dans un second rôle.

En 1984, il incarne le baron de Charlus dans Un amour de Swann, adapté de Marcel Proust par Volker Schlöndorff ; le film recueille des critiques mitigées.

Après le film Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort, Alain Delon cesse d'apparaître en héros de polar.

Il s'installe en 1985 en Suisse, à Chêne-Bougeries, une commune du canton de Genève. Le 23 septembre 1999, le conseil communal de Chêne-Bougeries vote la naturalisation suisse d'Alain Delon, ainsi que de ses deux enfants, Anoucka et Alain-Fabien.

​Il rencontre en 1987 Rosalie van Breemen, un mannequin néerlandais, sur le tournage du vidéo-clip de sa chanson Comme au cinéma. Il a avec elle deux enfants : Anouchka, née le 25 novembre 1990, et Alain-Fabien, né le 18 mars 1994. 

En 1998, Delon déclare mettre fin à sa carrière au cinéma.

​​Bien qu'il ait annoncé mettre un terme à sa carrière cinématographique, Alain Delon accepte, en 1999, de participer au film de Bertrand Blier Les Acteurs, dans lequel il rend hommage à Jean Gabin et Lino Ventura, Louis de Funès, Yves Montand et Simone Signoret.

En 2001, Alain Delon incarne le commissaire de police Fabio Montale de Marseille, dans une série policière d'après l'œuvre de Jean-Claude Izzo pour TF1, qui s'avère être un des scores historiques pour la télévision française en termes d'audience avec 12,4 millions de téléspectateurs. 

​En 2001, dans son livre de souvenirs, L'amour n'oublie jamais, paru chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert, le photographe Christian Aaron Boulogne, fils de Nico, mannequin, actrice et chanteuse allemande, affirme être le fils caché et non reconnu d'Alain Delon.

En octobre 2002, Alain Delon et Rosalie van Breemen se séparent après quinze ans de vie commune. Dépressif, âgé de soixante-sept ans, Delon avoue souvent à la presse son manque d'envie de vivre.

Il est fait commandeur de la Légion d'honneur en 2005 par le président de la République française Jacques Chirac pour « sa contribution à l'art du cinéma mondial ».

En 2008, il tient le rôle de Jules César dans Astérix aux Jeux olympiques, mais ce film à très gros budget, malgré plus de six millions de spectateurs, est très mal accueilli par la critique et ne reçoit pas le succès escompté. ​

​Il reprend le théâtre en 2011 avec la pièce Une journée ordinaire sur les relations père-fille qu'il interprète aux côtés de sa fille, Anouchka.

Le Festival de Cannes 2013 lui rend hommage ; à cette occasion, lors de la sélection Cannes Classics, le film Plein Soleil est présenté en version remastérisée. En octobre, Alain Delon joue de nouveau dans la pièce de théâtre Une journée ordinaire, mais cette fois en tournée à travers la France, accompagné de nouveau de sa fille Anouchka. 

Le 19 mai 2019, lors du festival de Cannes, il reçoit une Palme d'honneur pour l'ensemble de sa carrière. Il prononce alors une allocution lors de laquelle il apparaît en larmes.

En août 2019, fils d'Alain Delon, Anthony Delon confirme que son père a été victime deux mois auparavant d'un accident vasculaire cérébral et d’une hémorragie cérébrale, ce qui a conduit à son hospitalisation à l'hôpital de la Salpêtrière puis dans une clinique suisse

Alain Delon confie en juin 2021 vouloir tourner une dernière fois avant sa mort : « [J'ai] envie de faire un film et surtout de faire mon dernier film. Celui qui restera pour toujours. Et après, je pourrai partir, je n’aurai plus rien d’autre à faire ». Pour ce tournage, il souhaite une équipe « exceptionnelle » avec un « metteur en scène exceptionnel », sûrement « une femme », citant Lisa Azuelos.

​Adriana Abascal López-Cisneros (born October 31, 1970) is a Mexican-born model, who has appeared on the covers of magazines including Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire, Hola! and Vanity Fair, she is also an executive producer, TV show host (US & Latin America), and an author.

She won the title of Señorita Mexico in 1988 and participated in "Miss Universe 1989".

Abascal had a relationship with Televisa's owner Emilio Azcárraga Milmo from 1990 until his death in 1997.

Abascal became a host of the Emmy-nominated TV show "Todobebé" which aired nationally on Telemundo and syndicated across Latin America.

In 2000 Abascal married Spanish businessman Juan Villalonga; this marriage produced daughters Paulina and Jimena and son Diego, but they divorced in 2009.

In 2002, she wrote the book “Una mujer, cada Mujer” (One woman, every Woman), distributed in the US, Mexico, and Spain.

She has participated in designer shows including Paris Haute Couture - Giorgio Armani, Valentino Garavani, Giambattista Valli, Versace, John Paul Gaultier, Stephane Rolland, Thierry Lasry, Alber Elbaz, and at NY Fashion Week - Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Tory Burch, Cusnie et Ochs, Novis, Lela Rose, Christian Siriano and Tommy Hilfiger.

In 2013, Abascal became the host and main judge of the series, "Desafio Fashionista" for Discovery Home & Health.

In 2014, she produced the show "My Style Stories" with E-Entertainment.

In June 2013, she married French businessman Emmanuel Schreder, a company CEO, in Ibiza, Spain.
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Currently, she divides her time between Paris and Los Angeles. She speaks Spanish, English, French, and Italian.

​Adriana Abascal López-Cisneros (Veracruz, 31 de octubre de 1970) es una modelo y participante en concursos de belleza mexicana.

Fue elegida cómo Miss Veracruz 1988 más tarde Miss México 1988 mismo año de su título como "Miss México" y participó en el certamen Miss Universo 1989, donde quedó en quinto lugar. 

Ha sido la única Miss Veracruz que ha ganado un certamen nacional y llevada al certamen internacional de Miss Universo ya que, desde entonces, ninguna veracruzana ha corrido con la misma suerte.

Abascal estudió en el Instituto Pacelli, situado en el puerto de Veracruz. Posteriormente trabajó como modelo y actriz; también fue productora ejecutiva de telenovelas históricas de Televisa. En Los Ángeles, después de tener su primera hija, presentó un programa de Tv Todo Bebé.

Es autora del libro "Una mujer, cada Mujer", publicado en el 2002 en México, Estados Unidos y España.

Estuvo unida sentimentalmente durante 7 años con Emilio Azcárraga Milmo "El Tigre", el que fuera el hombre más rico de América Latina y dueño del imperio Televisa.

Era la propietaria del Yate Eco hasta que se lo vendió a Larry Ellison (propietario de Oracle).

Tiene 3 hijos: Paulina, Diego y Jimena, de su matrimonio con Juan Villalonga.

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​Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

Angelica Kauffman was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland. Her family moved to Morbegno in 1742, then Como in Lombardy in 1752 at that time under Austrian rule. In 1757 she accompanied her father to Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/Austria where her father was working for the local bishop. Her father, Joseph Johann Kauffmann, was a relatively poor man but a skilled Austrian muralist and painter, who was often traveling for his work. He trained Angelica and she worked as his assistant, moving through Switzerland, Austria, and Italy. Angelica, a child prodigy, rapidly acquired several languages from her mother, Cleophea Lutz, including German, Italian, French and English. She also showed talent as a musician and was forced to choose between opera and art. She quickly chose art as a Catholic priest told her that the opera was a dangerous place filled with "seedy people." By her twelfth year she had already become known as a painter, with bishops and nobles being her sitters.

In 1754, her mother died and her father decided to move to Milan. Later visits to Italy of long duration followed. She became a member of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in 1762. Kauffman and her family moved to Florence in June 1762, where the young artist first discovered the painting style that was coined Neoclassical painting.

Moving to Rome in January 1763, Kauffman was introduced to the British community. While learning more English and continuing her portraiture, a few months later the family moved again to Naples. There Kauffman studied works by the Old Masters, and had her first painting sent to a public exhibition in London. Later in 1763 she visited Rome, returning again in 1764. From Rome she passed to Bologna and Venice, everywhere feted for her talents and charm. Writing from Rome in August 1764 to his friend Franke, Winckelmann refers to her popularity; she was then painting his picture, a half-length; of which she also made an etching. She spoke Italian as well as German, he says, and expressed herself with facility in French and English – one result of the last-named accomplishment being that she became a popular portraitist for British visitors to Rome. "She may be styled beautiful," he adds, "and in singing may vie with our best virtuosi". In 1765, her work appeared in England in an exhibition of the Free Society of Artists. She moved to England shortly after and established herself as a leading artist.

While in Venice, Kauffman was persuaded by Lady Wentworth, the wife of the British ambassador, to accompany her to London. One of the first pieces she completed in London was a portrait of David Garrick, exhibited in the year of her arrival at "Mr Moreing's great room in Maiden Lane." The rank of Lady Wentworth opened society to her, and she was everywhere well received, the royal family especially showing her great favour. Her firmest friend, however, was Sir Joshua Reynolds. In his pocket-book her name as "Miss Angelica" or "Miss Angel" appears frequently; and in 1766 he painted her, a compliment which she returned by her Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Another instance of her intimacy with Reynolds is to be found in her variation of Guercino's Et in Arcadia ego, a subject which Reynolds repeated a few years later in his portrait of Mrs Bouverie and Mrs Crewe.

In 1767 Kauffman was seduced by an imposter going under the name Count Frederick de Horn, whom she married, but they were separated the following year. It was probably owing to Reynolds's good offices that she was among the signatories to the petition to the King for the establishment of the Royal Academy. In its first catalogue of 1769 she appears with "R.A." after her name (an honour she shared with one other woman, Mary Moser); and she contributed the Interview of Hector and Andromache, and three other classical compositions. She spent several months in Ireland in 1771, as a guest of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Viscount Townshend, and undertook a number of portrait commissions there. Her notable Irish portraits include those of Philip Tisdall, the Attorney General for Ireland, and his wife Mary, who acted as her patron, and of Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely and his family, including his niece Dorothea Monroe, the most admired Irish beauty of her time. It appears that among her circle of friends was Jean-Paul Marat, then living in London and practising medicine, with whom she may have had an affair.

​Her friendship with Reynolds was criticized in 1775 by fellow Academician Nathaniel Hone, who courted controversy in 1775 with his satirical picture The Conjurer. It was seen to attack the fashion for Italian Renaissance art and to ridicule Sir Joshua Reynolds, leading the Royal Academy to reject the painting. It also originally included a nude caricature of Kauffman in the top left corner, which he painted out after she complained to the academy. The combination of a little girl and an old man has also been seen as symbolic of Kauffman and Reynolds's closeness, age difference, and rumoured affair.

From 1769 until 1782 Kauffman was an annual exhibitor with the Royal Academy, sending sometimes as many as seven pictures, generally on classical or allegoric subjects. One of the most notable was Leonardo expiring in the Arms of Francis the First (1778).

In 1773 she was appointed by the Academy with others to decorate St Paul's Cathedral, a scheme that was never carried out, and it was she who, with Biagio Rebecca, painted the Academy's old lecture room at Somerset House.

While Kauffman produced portraits, and self-portraits, she identified herself primarily as a history painter, an unusual designation for a woman artist in the 18th century. History painting was considered the most elite and lucrative category in academic painting during this time period and, under the direction of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Royal Academy made a strong effort to promote it to a native audience more interested in commissioning and buying portraits and landscapes. Despite the popularity that Kauffman enjoyed in British society, and her success there as an artist, she was disappointed by the relative apathy of the British towards history painting. Ultimately, she left Britain for Rome, where history painting was better established, held in higher esteem and patronized.

History painting, as defined in academic art theory, was classified as the most elevated category. Its subject matter was the representation of human actions based on themes from history, mythology, literature, and scripture. This required extensive learning in biblical and Classical literature, knowledge of art theory and a practical training that included the study of anatomy from the male nude. Most women were denied access to such training, especially the opportunity to draw from nude models; yet Kauffman managed to cross the gender boundary. It is unclear as to how she gained the knowledge of the male anatomy that she had, but there is speculation that she studied plaster casts of statues. The male characters in her artworks are seen as being more feminine than most painters would choose to display, which may be a result of her lack of formal training on male anatomy

In 1807 she died in Rome, being honored by a splendid funeral under the direction of Canova. The entire Academy of St Luke, with numerous ecclesiastics and virtuosi, followed her to her tomb in Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, and, as at the burial of Raphael, two of her best pictures were carried in procession.

By the time of her death Angelica Kaufman had made herself what she considered to be a renewed artist. This explains why her funeral was directed by the well known Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova. Canova designed her funeral based on the funeral of the Renaissance master Raphael.

By 1911, rooms decorated with her work were still to be seen in various places. At Hampton Court was a portrait of the duchess of Brunswick; in the National Portrait Gallery, a self-portrait (NPG 430).

There were other pictures by her in Paris, at Dresden, in the Hermitage at St Petersburg, in the Alte Pinakothek at Munich, in Kadriorg Palace, Tallinn (Estonia) and in the Joanneum Alte Galerie at Graz. The Munich example was another portrait of herself, and there was a third in the Uffizi at Florence. A few of her works in private collections were exhibited among the Old Masters at Burlington House.

Angelica Kauffman is also well known by the numerous engravings from her designs by Schiavonetti, Francesco Bartolozzi and others. Those by Bartolozzi especially found considerable favour with collectors. Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), artist, patriot, and founder of a major American art dynasty, named several of his children after notable European artists, including a daughter, Angelica Kauffman Peale.

A biography of Kauffman was published in 1810 by Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi.  The book was also the basis of a romance by Léon de Wailly (1838) and it prompted the novel contributed by Anne Isabella Thackeray to the Cornhill Magazine in 1875 entitled "Miss Angel".

The Angelika Kauffmann Museum in Schwarzenberg, Vorarlberg (Austria) was established in 2007. This location is in the same area that her father called home. The annually changing exhibitions focus on different aspects and themes of her artistic work. In the 2019 exhibition "Angelika Kauffmann – Unknown Treasures from Vorarlberg Private Collections", many of her paintings were shown to the public for the first time, as a large proportion of her oeuvre is owned by private collectors. The museum is housed in the so-called "Kleberhaus", an old farmhouse in the typical architectural style of the region.