Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.  By decade's end, her place among French cinema's premiere actresses was secure.  She had not yet turned 30.  

Throughout the 70s, Deneuve dabbled in both comedy and drama, but her best work was still to come.  Working with directors such as Francois Truffaut in 1980's The Last Metro  and Andre Techine in 1986's Le Lieu du crime, for example, she honed her skill at portraying an aloof, seemingly inpenetrable persona punctuated with moments of near total vulnerability.  Indeed, it is this ability that has led many to call Deneuve the prototypical French actress.

More recently, her performance in 1992's Indochine garnered her