- Françoise and her sister Catherine Deneuve were as different as night and day. While Catherine was cool, calm, remote, and possessed with an edge of mystery about her, Françoise was quite the opposite -- fun, radiant, outgoing, with such joie de vivre. The sisters made three films together: Les portes claquent (1960), La chasse à l'homme (1964), and Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), which is their best remembered.
- Françoise was an up-and-coming star in the early 1960s and younger sister Catherine Deneuve was actually whisked into films on her older sister's celebrity.
- Elder sister of Catherine Deneuve and Sylvie Dorléac, younger maternal half-sister of Daniele Clariond Tappou.
- She was killed when her rental car crashed and burned in Nice, France.
- Once engaged to actor Jean-Pierre Cassel in the early 1960s.
- Daughter of Maurice Dorléac and Renée Simonot.
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