Who was Alain Delon married to? All about his wife and children as the French actor died at 88

French actor Alain Delon, best known for his parts in movies including Zorro and Le Samourai, died on August 18 at 88. His family sent a statement to AFP news and said,

“Alain Fabien, Anouchka, Anthony, as well as (his dog) Loubo, are deeply saddened to announce the passing of their father. He passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family.”

Delon had a stroke in 2019 and has been experiencing health issues recently. However, his actual cause of death hasn't been revealed.

Alain Delon was a renowned French actor who married Nathalie Delon, another French actress, model, filmmaker, and writer, in 1964. The couple gave birth to a son named Anthony the same year.

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Alain Delon was married to Nathalie

Alain lost Nathalie 3 years ago (Image via Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

French actress, model, filmmaker, and writer Nathalie Delon, also known as Nathalie Barthélémy, was born in France. Her debut performance in the 1967 neo-noir film Le Samouraï is widely recognized. She acted in thirty movies and directed two: Ils appellent ça un accident (1982) and Sweet Lies (1988).

Nathalie became familiar with Delon when she went to the filming of his movie, La Tulipe Noire, in May 1963. After becoming engaged in April 1964, Nathalie and Alain were married in Loir-et-Cher on August 13, 1964.

As per Rotten Tomatoes, author Bertrand Guyard wrote of the Delons' performances in Le Figaro,

"Their gazes, fraught with meaning, are enough to thrill the camera.”

Guyard further observed that although the husband and wife are almost silent, the filmmaker draws inspiration from their representations of "a mythical couple in the seventh art."

Later, on September 30, 1964, their son Anthony Delon was born in Los Angeles at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. However, Alain Delon and Nathalie divorced on February 14, 1969. During their marriage, they collaborated on two movies: Doucement les Basses, a few years after their divorce, and Le Samouraï during their marriage.

After that, Nathalie Delon continued her acting career until the 1980s. She debuted in The Private Lesson in 1968, which catapulted her into stardom in Japan and placed her among the top 10 international actresses.

She co-starred with Anthony Hopkins in When Eight Bells Toll in 1971 and Franco Nero in The Monk in 1972. When she starred in Le S*x Shop in 1973, Roger Greenspun of The New York Times noted that her part was one of the movie's "moments of real pleasure."

Delon's memoir, Pleure pas, c'est pas grave (Don't cry, it's okay), was released in 2006. It is a description of "her darker period, her marriage to Alain Delon, her descent into hell with drugs," according to Le Figaro. Later, on January 21, 2021, in Paris, she died at 79 from pancreatic cancer.

Anthony Delon, the son of Alain Delon and Nathalie Delon, is an American-French actor. Although Delon was raised in France, he was born in Los Angeles. He has two half-brothers and a half-sister: Alain-Fabien Delon, who is younger, the late Christian Aaron Boulogne, who was older, and Anouchka Delon, who, along with Christian was born of the affair between Alain and Nico, the German singer, actress, and model.

Anthony also contributed to films such as Pêcheur d'Islande (1996), Un été de canicule (2003), and The Condor Mystery (2005) in his later years.

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Even though Alain Delon's cause of death hasn't been revealed, ABC News reported that Anthony had reported earlier this year that his father had received a cancer diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma. The report also mentioned Delon's precarious health over the last year.