Nathalie Delon, beguiling French actress noted for Le Samouraï, and a fixture in the gossip columns – obituary She and her former husband, the star of French film Alain Delon, remained close but their marriage was stormy With Alain Delon boarding the ocean liner France after their wedding, August 1964 Credit: AFP via Getty Nathalie Delon, the actress, who has died aged 79, was a glamorous, quintessentially French beauty who appeared in more than 30 films in the 1960s and 1970s, but was best-known in France for her tempestuous marriage to its leading film star of the era, Alain Delon. Their first meeting, in a Paris nightclub in 1962, was not propitious. She asked him to stand up so that she could retrieve her handbag, on which he was sitting.