Catherine Jacob

Catherine Jacob

Born: December 16, 1956
in Paris, France
Catherine Jacob (born 16 December 1956) is a French film and theatrical actress who has won a César Award for her role in Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988), and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Tatie Danielle (1990), Merci la vie (1991) and Neuf mois (1994). She has been two-time president of the Lumières Award. She is known for her voice and her charisma.

Born in Paris on 16 December 1956, Catherine Jacob spent part of her childhood and adolescence in Compiègne, where she was educated at primary school and then Pierre d'Ailly High School. Her father was a dental surgeon and her mother an orthodontist. She has a younger brother.

After obtaining a diploma in architecture, Catherine Jacob moved to Paris. From 1978 to 1980, she studied acting at the Cours Florent, then located on Saint Louis Island.

She started to act in the early 1980s as an extra in movies like Swann in Love by Volker Schlöndorff (1984), Les Nanas by Annick Lanoë (1985), State of Grace by Jacques Rouffio (1986) and Malady of Love by Jacques Deray (1987). She also appeared in TV movies and TV series like Dickie-roi by Guy Lefranc, Toutes griffes dehors by Michel Boisrond, Julien Fontanes, magistrat, Marie Pervenche, Sentiments and Qui c'est ce garçon? by Nadine Trintignant in minor roles.

In 1985, she wrote and starred in her first one-woman show called Welcome to the Club, directed by Rémi Chenylle, drawing eleven portraits of characters. She appeared in several festivals with her show and toured with it the following year.

In 1988 she played Marie-Thérèse in the cult film Life Is a Long Quiet River by Étienne Chatiliez. The movie was a huge success, and Jacob won the César Award for Most Promising Actress. She also played in the TV miniseries Le vent des moissons alongside Annie Girardot. That same year, she and Jacques Bonnaffé also had a huge success with the play Paris-Nord - Attractions pour noces et banquets. It was planned to be shown only for 10 nights, but due to the success, the play continued for three years.

In 1989, she continued her tour with the play Paris-Nord - Attractions pour noces et banquets. She got a supporting role in Les Maris, les Femmes, les Amants by Pascal Thomas, with Jean-François Stévenin and Michel Robin. She starred in two TV movies: L'été de la révolution with Bruno Cremer and Brigitte Fossey and Le vagabond de la Bastille by Michel Andrieu. She also appeared in an episode of the TV series Imogène with Dominique Lavanant.

In 1990, she ended her tour with the play Paris-Nord - Attractions pour noces et banquets after three years. She appeared in the second movie of the director Étienne Chatiliez, Tatie Danielle with Tsilla Chelton, Isabelle Nanty and Karin Viard. It was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie was again a big success at the box office, well received by the critics and became a cult movie. Jacob was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress. ...

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Character: The Baroness
Released: February 13, 2024
Type: TV
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
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Un fil à la patte
Title: Un fil à la patte
Character: la baronne Duverger
Released: April 21, 2023
Type: Movie
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Rumba Therapy
Title: Rumba Therapy
Character: Patronne
Released: August 24, 2022
Type: Movie
Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, we're nothing. Tony decides to reconnect with the daughter he abandoned twenty years earlier, when she was just a baby. Still a coward, he's unable to screw up the courage to actually confront her directly. So he decides to sign up for a dance class she's teaching in Paris. Incognito, of course. To get to know her gradually… in a desperate attempt to give some meaning to his empty life. In the process, he has more than a few dance steps to learn!
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Title: Papy fait de la résistance
Character: Madame Bourdelle
Released: June 1, 2021
Type: Movie
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100% Organic
Title: 100% Organic
Character: Hortensia
Released: January 5, 2021
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Basque butcher brings her new boyfriend — a Parisian vegan — home to meet her family.
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Hortense
Title: Hortense
Character: Sophie Delalande
Released: December 14, 2020
Type: Movie
An apparently well-rounded woman hides a secret wound: her daughter Hortense was taken from her as she was only 3.
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Title: Les Copains d'abord
Character: Annie
Released: July 30, 2020
Type: TV
Faced with eviction, two neighboring families will risk everything to continue living together — even if it’s the worst idea they’ve ever had.
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Murder on Reunion Island
Title: Murder on Reunion Island
Character: Juliette Gentil
Released: September 21, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: Les Impatientes
Character: La Baronne
Released: September 26, 2018
Type: TV
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To Each, Her Own
Title: To Each, Her Own
Character: Noëlle Benloulou
Released: June 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Just as Simone works up the courage to tell her conservative Jewish family she's a lesbian, she finds herself attracted to a male Senegalese chef.
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Like Mother, Like Daughter
Title: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Character: Irène
Released: March 29, 2017
Type: Movie
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This Is Our Land
Title: This Is Our Land
Character: Agnès Dorgelle
Released: January 25, 2017
Type: Movie
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Un jour mon prince
Title: Un jour mon prince
Character: La Reine Titiana
Released: January 17, 2017
Type: Movie
There are almost a hundred years that The Sleeping Beauty is asleep No prince charming responsible for waking found favor in his eyes or, if it does not wake up, the world of fairies disappear.
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Trois mariages et un coup de foudre
Title: Trois mariages et un coup de foudre
Character: Annie
Released: December 31, 2016
Type: Movie
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Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
Title: Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
Character: Mère Château
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.
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Hidden Kisses
Title: Hidden Kisses
Character: Catherine
Released: February 4, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Cassandre
Character: Nicole
Released: November 28, 2015
Type: TV
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Character: Self
Released: November 4, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: It's Never Too Late
Character: Valérie
Released: November 11, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: Lili Rose
Character: Pierrot's sister
Released: October 22, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: Divorce French Style
Character: Daphné
Released: June 25, 2014
Type: Movie
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Character: Sandra
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: Movie
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Character: Lisette Katz
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Type: TV
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Title: Les Vieux Calibres
Character: Madame Le Bihan
Released: April 30, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Laurence Ravel
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Je vous présente ma femme
Character: Viviane Martin
Released: April 12, 2013
Type: Movie
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Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Bay of Algiers
Character: Zoé
Released: June 26, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Our dear neighbors
Character: Sylvie
Released: June 4, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Ten Minutes from Naturists
Character: Solange Langlois
Released: March 4, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Livid
Character: Wilson
Released: December 6, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Client
Character: Viviane Fondary
Released: September 26, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Gérald K. Gérald
Character: Samantha de Réglisse
Released: March 18, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Demain, je me marie
Character: Karine
Released: February 9, 2011
Type: Movie
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Roses on Credit
Title: Roses on Credit
Character: Mme Donzert
Released: September 9, 2010
Type: Movie
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Notre Dame des Barjots
Title: Notre Dame des Barjots
Character: Lieutenant Sanchez
Released: April 2, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Thelma, Louise et Chantal
Character: Chantal
Released: March 3, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Caroline, la fille d'Huguette et Raymond
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: 48 Hours a Day
Character: Laurent
Released: June 4, 2008
Type: Movie
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Behind the Walls
Title: Behind the Walls
Character: Director
Released: April 30, 2008
Type: Movie
A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.
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La Maison Tellier
Title: La Maison Tellier
Character: Odile Tellier
Released: April 29, 2008
Type: Movie
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La Méthode Bourchnikov
Title: La Méthode Bourchnikov
Character: Sylvette Martin (voice)
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Pink Soldier
Title: The Pink Soldier
Character: La Voix du Grand Magasin
Released: December 23, 2006
Type: Movie
The plot of the musical is about a little boy who hides in the toy section of a department store at night, where the toys come to life.
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Les Aristos
Title: Les Aristos
Character: La duchesse Marie-Claude Saumur-Chantilly de Fortemure
Released: September 20, 2006
Type: Movie
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?
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Dikkenek
Title: Dikkenek
Character: Sylvie
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may need some help in finding the woman of his dreams, and embracing loyalty rather than logic he turns to Jean-Claude for advice.
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L'enfant d'une autre
Title: L'enfant d'une autre
Character: Maud Kert
Released: March 14, 2006
Type: Movie
A successful businesswoman thinks she has found her daughter, whom she lost when she was six months old...
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Title: Le Cri
Character: Renée Panaud
Released: February 27, 2006
Type: TV
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Désiré Landru
Title: Désiré Landru
Character: Mme Marchadier
Released: September 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Désiré Landru - husband, lover - and murderer. Based on documented facts, this is the full story of one of the most ambiguous criminals and lovers of the 20th century, the first modern serial killer.
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Louise
Title: Louise
Character: Joanne
Released: July 24, 2005
Type: Movie
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Quartier V.I.P.
Title: Quartier V.I.P.
Character: Louisette
Released: May 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Gardien à la Santé, Alex mène une petite vie tranquille aux côtés de son épouse Louisette et de son collègue et copain René. Muté au quartier des V.I.P., il se voit proposer par l'un des détenus, Bertrand, un businessman condamné pour affaires frauduleuses, un étrange marché : Claire, l'épouse de Bertrand, a décidé de se séparer d'un mari devenu encombrant tout en profitant de sa fortune. Alex est alors chargé de lui proposer une affaire financière alléchante mais bidon qui pourrait permettre à Bertrand de récupérer son argent. Désireux de mettre un peu de piment dans sa vie, Alex accepte de jouer le jeu et de se comporter pendant ses soirées en homme d'affaires suisse et discret ! Claire est séduite. Très vite, Bertrand réalise qu'Alex s'intéresse vraiment à sa femme, Claire découvre la supercherie financière et Louisette la trahison conjugale...
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Louise
Title: Louise
Character: Joanne Guiberry
Released: January 18, 2005
Type: Movie
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Qui mange quand ?
Title: Qui mange quand ?
Character: Rose Lantier
Released: October 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Two young parents are desperate to regain more defined roles when they realize that their son does not know his father from his mother.
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The First Time I Turned Twenty
Title: The First Time I Turned Twenty
Character: Mme Goldman, la mère
Released: October 6, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of ridicule, but she has a talent for music and is determined to fulfil her ambition to play in the school jazz band.
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Title: Colette, une femme libre
Character: Mathilde de Morny dite « Missy »
Released: January 25, 2004
Type: TV
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Who Killed Bambi?
Title: Who Killed Bambi?
Character: Véronique
Released: December 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr. Philip there, feels atracted to him from the beggining and starts suffering from strange fainting; so he calls her Bambi: her legs don't support her. Patients mysteriously start to dissappear from their rooms; so Bambi and Dr. Philip start a cat vs. mouse paranoid game, in order to catch the probable killer.
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Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
Title: Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
Character: Ambiguité (voice)
Released: November 19, 2003
Type: Movie
In 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo spirits, delivers some weapons to rebels in Brazil and hunts for treasure with Rasputin.
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Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand
Title: Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand
Character: Marianne
Released: November 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Hugo Pratt's famous comics adventurer, Corto Maltese while sojourning in Adana, Turkey, discovers a map to the treasure of Cyrus, an ancient king of Persia. To assist him in his quest, he enlists his old friend/nemesis the unbelievable Raspoutine whom he first has to help escape from the prison of Samarkand (aka "La maison dorée de Samarkand", the golden house of Samarkand). On the long and tortured way to the riches, he encounters all kind of interesting characters, soldiers of fortune, lost British actors, and even his doppelgänger.
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Atlantic Island
Title: Atlantic Island
Character: Chantal Seignelet
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Several boys aged seven to fourteen, have formed their own secret support group as a result of parental neglect and abuse. The group is however more keen on revenge against the adults on their island. They break into houses and steal items, not for money, more for the thrill. They vandalize homes and torment the occupants. One man decides to seize the opportunity to do away with his wife and blame it on the intruders.
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Title: L'Adieu
Character: Georgette
Released: April 28, 2003
Type: TV
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Qui mange quoi ?
Title: Qui mange quoi ?
Character: Rose
Released: December 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Rose, a health and fraud inspector, wants to have a child with Marc, a biologist in the same organization as her. But first, she decides to settle her problems with René, her ex-husband's uncle. Their restaurant is on the verge of bankruptcy despite the efforts of Joseph, the cook. As for Marc, he is afflicted with a possessive sister, Chantal, psychorigid and adept at macrobiotics.
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La Torpille
Title: La Torpille
Character: Dominique Dumas
Released: April 16, 2002
Type: Movie
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J'ai faim !!!
Title: J'ai faim !!!
Character: Lily
Released: November 7, 2001
Type: Movie
A chubby forty-ish florist is dumped for a gorgeous young woman. She decides to lose weight and to ruin her rival's life in order to win her handsome lover back.
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God Is Great and I'm Not
Title: God Is Great and I'm Not
Character: Evelyne
Released: September 26, 2001
Type: Movie
Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
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The Heart at Work
Title: The Heart at Work
Character: Françoise
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives.
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Evasions
Title: Evasions
Character: Diane Lessing
Released: June 6, 2000
Type: Movie
In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the sensitive daughter of a factory owner, decides somewhat belatedly to escape as well, together with her arrogant fiancé Bruno. Since they have a luxury automobile, the elderly society lady Daine Lessing decides to join them, and brings along the sensitive homosexual diplomat with her. The four of them finally leave the city in the hopelessly overloaded luxury car, only to get stuck in the middle of a seemingly endless column of refugees along a dusty road outside Paris...
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Qui mange qui ?
Title: Qui mange qui ?
Character: Rose
Released: May 20, 1999
Type: Movie
A young health inspector takes on the restaurant of her lover who betrayed her.
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Jeudi 12
Title: Jeudi 12
Released: December 22, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Tout le monde en parle
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 1998
Type: TV
Tout le monde en parle is a French talk show broadcast on France 2 from September 5, 1998 to July 8, 2006. It was hosted by Thierry Ardisson and produced by Catherine Barma. During its first season, the show took the form of societal debates; it was in September 1999 that it was re-formatted into a talk-show. The show features guests who are making news at the moment, including actors, writers, singers, politicians and athletes. Guests discuss their life and engage in thematic interviews. The show gradually acquired a provocative reputation, notably since the host does not hesitate to ask political guests questions about their private and sexual lives. With Thierry Ardisson as the main host, he was first accompanied by Laurent Ruquier and Linda Hardy. Later, he turned to duos Éric and Ramzy, then Kad and Olivier. Finally, he opted for comedian Lauren Baffie as co-host, until the end of the show.
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Let There Be Light!
Title: Let There Be Light!
Character: Dieu Suzanne
Released: July 8, 1998
Type: Movie
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
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Théo et Marie
Title: Théo et Marie
Character: Marcelle
Released: April 16, 1998
Type: Movie
After the arrest of his mother, who is accused of collaboration, 14-year-old Theo decides to go join his grandfather in Paris. On the road he meets Marie, an 11 year old orphan.
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XXL
Title: XXL
Character: Lorène Benguigui
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death of a rural Auvergne peasant who once hid David and his cousin Nathan (Felix Fibich) from the Nazis. Nathan is now a NYC diamond dealer on West 47th Street. David, Nathan, Arlette, and Berrebi head for the funeral in Auvergne. There they encounter the deceased peasant's son, Jean Bourdalou (Gerard Depardieu), who operates the family's restaurants in Paris. Arlette does a romantic take on Bourdalou, which sends the distraught Berrebi off to cry on the shoulder of his mother Gaby (Gina Lollobrigida). Back in Paris, Bourdalou and Berrebi make plans to open a trendy fashion restaurant in Manhattan.
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La Vie à trois
Title: La Vie à trois
Character: Charlotte
Released: December 8, 1997
Type: Movie
The arrival of a first child disrupts the life of a young couple who had been living a free and carefree existence until then.
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Gentlemen Children
Title: Gentlemen Children
Character: Yolande
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly transformed into adults. The next morning, the three twelve-year-old boys realize to their amazement that...they HAVE BEEN transformed into adults! As for they parents they have become...KIDS! It is the beginning of a series of mishaps for Joseph, a Jew, Igor, a catholic and Nourdine, an Arab...
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La Ballade de Titus
Title: La Ballade de Titus
Character: Louise
Released: July 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Once upon a time, Titus was locked up in a cellar by his adoptive parents with only a television set, a VCR... and five hundred cartoon tapes... Twenty years later, Titus escapes. The world seems to him then a simple amusement park...
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Oui
Title: Oui
Character: Nathalie
Released: December 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Can sex make you less of an asshole? One summer, nine friends stop thinking about their sex life in the wrong way and all learn to give pleasure and to give themselves, all manage to delight and make their partner enjoy.
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The Orinoco Dam
Title: The Orinoco Dam
Character: Arlette Legrand
Released: September 14, 1996
Type: Movie
After the accidental death of her husband, Dominique Vallorie agrees to take over the construction of an important dam on the Orinoco River. She does not know that by accepting to go to Venezuela, her life as a woman and engineer will change. Through a great love story she will assert herself despite all the pitfalls on the way.
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The Grand Dukes
Title: The Grand Dukes
Character: Carla Milo
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
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Let's Hope It Lasts
Title: Let's Hope It Lasts
Character: Christine Ponty
Released: February 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Joseph and Victor are two motorcyclists of the national police force and inseparable friends. If the first leads a tidy life with wife and child, the second, single, is always in search of a soul mate - And one day he finds her.
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Happiness Is in the Field
Title: Happiness Is in the Field
Character: Madame André dit « Lolotte »
Released: December 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...
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Girls with Guns
Title: Girls with Guns
Character: Cécile
Released: June 22, 1994
Type: Movie
In Montelimar, four young women whom life has not spared want to emerge from mediocrity. They decide to rob a bank, but everything is not so simple and the perfectly developed heist could turn into disaster.
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Dieu que les femmes sont amoureuses
Title: Dieu que les femmes sont amoureuses
Character: Anne
Released: June 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Anne divides her time between her children, a 16-year-old son and twins Lili and Lolotte and her work as an editor. Her life is turned upside down by the reappearance on the scene of Arthur, one of her first loves, whom she never wanted to see again. He doesn't know that he is the father of the twins but he is determined to win Anne over. The trouble is, she is surrounded by men desperate for her hand and thinks she is in love with one of them.
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Neuf mois
Title: Neuf mois
Character: Dominique
Released: February 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Samuel est psychanalyste. Toute la journée, il voit des patients exprimer des griefs, en particulier des adolescents rebelles qui méprisent leurs parents. Cette situation l'a conduit à voir d'un mauvais œil l'idée de sa paternité. C'est alors que sa compagne Mathilde lui annonce qu'elle est enceinte. Terrifié par l'idée, Samuel vit les neuf mois de grossesse de Mathilde plutôt comme un cauchemar, et les conseils de son ami Marc, homme à femmes mais célibataire endurci, n'arrangent rien à son angoisse. De leur côté, Georges et Dominique, la sœur de Marc, déjà parents de trois filles, affrontent sans inquiétude la quatrième grossesse de Dominique. L'expérience des uns va finalement avoir raison des appréhensions des autres, et entre les deux couples vont se tisser de solides nœuds d'amitié.
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The Thirst for Gold
Title: The Thirst for Gold
Character: Fleurette, épouse d'Urbain
Released: August 31, 1993
Type: Movie
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains. His plan is to deposit all this wealth in a Swiss Bank, where neither his wife - whom he is about to divorce - nor the French State can get at it. Accompanied by his money-grabbing Granny Zézette, Urbain heads off for Switzerland, with his gold concealed in the walls of a model house on the back of a trailer. Unfortunately, his scheme is threatened by his wife and his embittered ex-chauffeur, who are determined to get his money at any cost...
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The Girl in the Air
Title: The Girl in the Air
Character: Rose
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be locked up for another three or four decades. She decides that this is much too long to wait to spend time with her sweetheart and decides to learn how to fly a helicopter. Why? So she can fly in and take him out of his prison yard, which is exactly what she does, thrilling romantics all over France and seriously upsetting the authorities. This award-winning film is based on a true incident from 1986.
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My Father the Hero
Title: My Father the Hero
Character: Christelle
Released: October 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
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Thank You, Life
Title: Thank You, Life
Character: Evangeline Pelleveau, la mère jeune
Released: March 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.
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Title: Les Nuls, l'émission
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 1990
Type: TV
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Auntie Danielle
Title: Auntie Danielle
Character: Catherine Billard
Released: April 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title character, who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets. Eventually, she moves in with her nephew and his vain wife. Soon, her family is at war with Tatie, and takes off for Greece, leaving her in the care of Sandrine (Isabelle Nanty), an au pair who is as equally bitter as Tatie herself. At first the two don't get along, yet the two eventually become friends. However, Sandrine is invited to accompany an American student for an overnight stay at the beach, which would leave Tatie alone for a night. Angered, Tatie fires Sandrine, and while she is alone, she goes into deep depression, eventually setting the family's apartment on fire. The fire becomes a national story, with Tatie cast as a poor old lady and the family labeled as cruel and heartless villains.
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Title: Les Jupons de la révolution
Character: Rose Bertin
Released: July 19, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: L'Été de la Révolution
Character: Madame Lecoeur
Released: April 26, 1989
Type: TV
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The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
Title: The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
Character: Marie-Françoise Tocanier
Released: January 4, 1989
Type: Movie
In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness...
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Life Is a Long Quiet River
Title: Life Is a Long Quiet River
Character: Marie-Thérèse
Released: February 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
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Malady of Love
Title: Malady of Love
Character: Nurse
Released: September 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
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State of Grace
Title: State of Grace
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...
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Title: Télématin
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1985
Type: TV
Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Julien Fontanes, magistrat
Character: Dany
Released: January 27, 1980
Type: TV
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A lovely summer afternoon
Title: A lovely summer afternoon
Character: Solange
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Four Parisian friends spend an afternoon with a friend in the countryside. However, he is suffering from a minor psychological problem with paranoid tendencies.