Armelle

Armelle

Born: July 23, 1969
in Paris, France
Armelle (born 23 July 1969 as Armelle Leśniak) is a French actress, comedian and screenwriter.

After studies in khâgne, she works as a costume-aid. Trained by Jean Périmony, her atypical physique and her personality do not take long to attract attention. Coline Serreau entrusted her with a second role in 1996 in La Belle Verte.

In 2001, she plays Maéva Capucin, the head of archives stuck in Caméra Café that she will also play in the cinema in Espace Détente and in Le Séminaire. The same year, she plays in Amélie of Jean-Pierre Jeunet. In 2003, at the 8th edition of the Grand Prix of humor in advertising, she received the Actress Award for her performance in advertising Spontex. In 2011 she plays in La Croisière of Pascale Pouzadoux.

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Le vison voyageur
Title: Le vison voyageur
Character: Mlle Tipdale
Released: November 21, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: L'Incroyable Embouteillage
Character: Gloria
Released: July 4, 2023
Type: TV
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The Great Magic
Title: The Great Magic
Character: Une cliente de l'hôtel
Released: February 8, 2023
Type: Movie
The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois Charles Moufflet, disappear, who takes advantage of this tour to escape for good.
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20 years after Caméra Café
Title: 20 years after Caméra Café
Character: Self - Actress
Released: January 24, 2023
Type: Movie
To celebrate the release of a new movie for their 20th anniversary, this documentary offers some behind-the-scenes footages.
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Already 20 years of Caméra Café
Title: Already 20 years of Caméra Café
Character: Maéva Capucin
Released: January 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Now irrelevant in this 2.0 company, Jean-Claude is fired! Hervé is charged by the management to make Jean-Claude clear off quickly and without a scene. In doing so, they will tear down their memories, mixing the great and the small history of the past 20 years. Over the course of these memories, Hervé and Jean-Claude will renew the bonds of a lost friendship.
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Quelle famille !
Title: Quelle famille !
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: Movie
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Un chalet à Gstaad
Title: Un chalet à Gstaad
Released: December 17, 2022
Type: Movie
Françoise and Jean-Jacques Lombard, very wealthy tax exiles whose fortune is based on the inventions of their husbands, are preparing to receive a couple of friends, Alicia and Grégoire Lagarde. He is a daddy's boy industrialist, She is a rich and stupid aristocrat. Everything could well happen if Alicia had not become infatuated with a spiritual coach who accompanies them to dinner. And inevitably, the varnish will end up cracking, especially when the guru will tell them the worst: their fortune is threatened.
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Dancing On
Title: Dancing On
Character: Juliette
Released: March 16, 2022
Type: Movie
After thirty years of marriage, Sandra finds out that her husband is having an affair with his best friend. She immediately leaves him and has no choice but to seek refuge in her childhood home, where her sister Danie still lives. The sisters couldn’t be more different. Danie, a stubborn single with a dog and the heart of a social justice warrior vs. Sandra, a bourgeois housewife with decades of a secure lifestyle on a posh vineyard behind her. Their cohabitation starts out rocky to say the least… But with the help of close buddies Roberto and Lucien, Danie coaxes Sandra into joining their local dance troupe, and reconnect with the greatest joy and talent of her youth. Through their shared passion for dance and the solidarity of the troupe’s other dancers, the sisters embark on a fresh life path. Because, really, it’s never too late... even to fall in love again.
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Title: Love (and Trouble) In Paris
Character: Solène
Released: January 19, 2022
Type: TV
Julie, 36 years old, unemployed and single, wants to take control of her life: lying and cheating in order to finally meet the perfect man, Max. Who doesn't even know that she exists.
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Title: Le Remplaçant
Character: Geneviève
Released: April 12, 2021
Type: TV
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Family Feud
Title: Family Feud
Character: Marie-Jo
Released: September 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Paul and Virginie just had a baby boy. Happy to discover their new life as young parents, they did not imagine that their Boutchou would become the stake of a merciless struggle between the grandparents ... To gain the exclusivity of the little adored, grandfathers and grandparents. mothers are ready to implement any stratagems ...
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How to Be a Good Wife
Title: How to Be a Good Wife
Character: Christiane Rougemont
Released: March 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them. Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte and strict nun Marie-Therese, Paulette joins forces with the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed status and become liberated women.
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Like Me : La Fête Interdite
Title: Like Me : La Fête Interdite
Character: La directrice
Released: September 8, 2018
Type: Movie
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Little Spirou
Title: Little Spirou
Character: La Voyante
Released: September 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Petit Spirou, like all his family before him, has a career destiny all traced. When his mother announces that he will integrate the grooms school at the beginning of the new school year, Petit Spirou, with the help of his friends, will take advantage of his last days of class to declare his love to Suzette. And no matter how. They decide to live an extraordinary adventure.
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La folle évasion
Title: La folle évasion
Released: December 4, 2016
Type: Movie
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Nelson
Title: Nelson
Character: Marie
Released: June 21, 2016
Type: Movie
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A Village Almost Perfect!
Title: A Village Almost Perfect!
Character: Josiane
Released: November 15, 2014
Type: Movie
"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its last hope : Start back the Smoked Salmon factory. The only issue : Insurances require a permanent doctor on site. But it s has been 5 years the previous doctor retired without setting a replacement. The whole village,supporting their surly major Germain, will try everything to convince the very Parisian Doctor Maxime Meyer that happiness is only at Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne! This movie is the french remake of the Canadian movie 'la Grande Seduction'
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The Secret of Arkandias
Title: The Secret of Arkandias
Character: Julie Boucher
Released: October 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Theo, not the most popular boy at his school, dreams of escaping the dreary everyday life, experiencing adventure and accomplishing great heroic deeds. His dream seems to be fulfilled when, one day, he finds a very old and magical book in the library and fascinates him with a short hand. He forges the plan to forge a ring with his best friend Bonav and the rebellious Laura, who can make him invisible. The charm succeeds, but the three friends conjure up all sorts of dangers of magical, but also secular nature. Only the mysterious red wizard Arkandias can now help you out of trouble.
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La voyante
Title: La voyante
Character: Madame Rose
Released: September 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Véra Bellini fights with her psychic friends for their gift to be recognized by medicine. But her opponent Doctor Pelletier thoughly resists and will reveal a difficult secret about Vera's life.
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Title: La Parenthèse inattendue
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: TV
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Porn in the Hood
Title: Porn in the Hood
Character: L'organisatrice de la partouze libertine
Released: July 11, 2012
Type: Movie
3 childhood friends who have never left their hometown in the suburb try to get into porn as a way of earning easy money.
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Les Voies Impénétrables
Title: Les Voies Impénétrables
Character: Soeur Caroline
Released: June 26, 2012
Type: Movie
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The New Snow White
Title: The New Snow White
Character: Director
Released: December 30, 2011
Type: Movie
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La Croisière
Title: La Croisière
Character: Marie-Do
Released: August 17, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Sparrowhawk
Character: Prima Dona
Released: June 18, 2011
Type: TV
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Parce Que Je La Vole Bien
Title: Parce Que Je La Vole Bien
Released: March 1, 2011
Type: Movie
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Fatal
Title: Fatal
Character: Heidi
Released: June 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Fatal... a diminutive for Fatal Bazooka, a bling-bling and hardcore rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tens of hits, 4 « Artist of the year » Music Awards of Music, a range of fashion, a magazine, and soon his own amusement park : Fataland. He is the undisputed number one, until...
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The Round Up
Title: The Round Up
Character: Directrice école infirmières
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Nounou autoritaire
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Neuilly Yo Mama!
Title: Neuilly Yo Mama!
Character: Mme Blanchet
Released: August 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
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Le Séminaire Caméra Café
Title: Le Séminaire Caméra Café
Character: Maéva Capucin
Released: February 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Six employees of the Geugène company travel to Paris to take part in a motivational seminar.
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Title: Mot de Passe
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 2009
Type: TV
Two celebrity-contestant teams compete to guess words by giving one-word clues in this French adaptation of the all-time classic game show.
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Title: Mot de Passe
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 10, 2009
Type: TV
Two celebrity-contestant teams compete to guess words by giving one-word clues in this French adaptation of the all-time classic game show.
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Changing Sides
Title: Changing Sides
Character: La directrice d'école
Released: January 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental company and he tries to take the role of a house calling jewelry salesman...But is life really better when you live it on the other side of the bed?
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Trouble at Timpetill
Title: Trouble at Timpetill
Character: Corbac
Released: December 17, 2008
Type: Movie
The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.
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Fool Moon
Title: Fool Moon
Character: Maïté
Released: July 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Une bande d'anciens copains de Sciences-Po, devenus de jeunes loups de la politique se retrouvent pour un week-end dans une maison isolée en Bretagne avec pour seul mot d'ordre: se détendre et surtout ne jamais parler politique. Mais la pleine lune, des voisins adeptes de mystérieux rites et le vieil Armagnac trouvé dans la cave vont les faire désavouer leur promesse, et tout va partir en live...
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Mon amour de fantôme
Title: Mon amour de fantôme
Character: Joséphine
Released: April 15, 2007
Type: Movie
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Les Aristos
Title: Les Aristos
Character: Marie Karoline
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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Zapping Family
Title: Zapping Family
Character: Bernadette de la Miche
Released: December 23, 2005
Type: Movie
A French family comments on what's on TV tonight.
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Espace détente
Title: Espace détente
Character: Maéva Capucin
Released: February 2, 2005
Type: Movie
In the middle of the Veule, imaginary French province, the Geugène Electro Stim, a medium-sized company, which survives thanks to the manufacture and sale of the C14, an old but inexpensive electrical stimulation device.
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Podium
Title: Podium
Character: Laure
Released: February 11, 2004
Type: Movie
Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and has a son. He used to have another profession: being French star Claude Francois. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him happy: the applause.
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Toutes les filles sont folles
Title: Toutes les filles sont folles
Character: Journaliste DV
Released: May 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Céleste, la trentaine, n'a toujours pas rencontré le grand amour. Un jour, sur un coup de tête, elle décide d'enlever l'homme qu'elle croit idéal, forçant au passage Rosalie, sa soeur cadette, à la suivre dans sa combine. Mais dans la panique, Céleste va se tromper d'homme...
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La Crème de Caméra Café, Volume 1
Title: La Crème de Caméra Café, Volume 1
Character: Maéva Capucin
Released: January 29, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: Caméra Café
Character: Maéva Capucin
Released: October 29, 2001
Type: TV
The coffee machine of a small company is the scene of discussions between employees. Private life, professional life, gossip, mockery, ... everything goes!
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Amélie
Title: Amélie
Character: Philomène
Released: April 25, 2001
Type: Movie
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
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Day Off
Title: Day Off
Character: Marie-Thérèse, Vitalie's sister
Released: March 28, 2001
Type: Movie
Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.
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Jet Set
Title: Jet Set
Character: Frénégonde
Released: June 14, 2000
Type: Movie
In the working-class Paris suburb of Montreuil, Jimmy's restaurant, the Bombay Bar, is on the verge of being closed down by creditors. Jimmy is despondent -- the fact that his wife is about to have a baby isn't helping matters -- when he and his business partner Fifi find unlikely inspiration in the form of "Riches et Sympas," a TV show dedicated to the lives of the rich and famous. Figuring that getting the "right" people to frequent their business will ensure its reputation, Jimmy and Fifi persuade Jimmy's friend, the laid-back, unemployed Mike, to pose as a nobleman and lure his moneyed associates to the Bombay Bar. Mike agrees, and after crashing a posh charity ball, he finds himself being taken in by the likes of society fixture Arthus de Poulignac and Evrard, the latter of whom ensconces Mike in his private mansion. Unfortunately, Mike soon becomes a little too fond of his newly-acquired lifestyle, leaving Jimmy to wonder what to do with the monster he unwittingly created.
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Bimboland
Title: Bimboland
Character: Nathalie
Released: December 23, 1998
Type: Movie
A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes one of them in order to do that, and the professor she loves falls for her new identity.
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Title: The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Character: Pétronille
Released: February 11, 1998
Type: Movie
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
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Arlette
Title: Arlette
Character: Lucie
Released: April 16, 1997
Type: Movie
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves...