Denise Benoît (10 September 1919 – 29 May 1973) was a French actress and singer, active across a wide range of genres on the stage, radio and television.
Through several theatrical contacts she became the student of the actor and director Jean Meyer, spent a year at the Conservatoire and began her acting career in 1942.
[2] In 1945 while a student of André Brunot at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique in Paris she took part in a televised play by Courteline; at the time she was only recognized as an actress, with her singing career yet to begin.
[9] In the 1950s she began a long association with radio broadcasting, which at the time she expressed a preference for, including ten years on the regular programme of Louis Ducreux.
[2] While taking a respite for the birth of her first child in the early 1950s, Joseph Kosma guided her in broadening her song repertoire and wrote a few for her.