Emmanuelle Seigner

Emmanuelle Seigner

Born: June 22, 1966
in Paris, France
Emmanuelle Seigner (born 22 June 1966) is a French actress, former fashion model, and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Venus in Fur (2013), and for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Place Vendôme (1998) and La Vie En Rose (2007). She has been married to Polish film director Roman Polanski since 30 August 1989.

Seigner was born in Paris to a photographer father and a journalist mother. She is the granddaughter of the actor Louis Seigner, niece of the actress Françoise Seigner and sister of the actress Mathilde Seigner. She was educated at a Catholic convent school and began modelling at the age of fourteen.

She married Roman Polanski on 30 August 1989, and they have two children: daughter Morgane and son Elvis. Polanski is 33 years her senior. Her husband directed her in Frantic (1988), Bitter Moon (1992), The Ninth Gate (1999), Venus in Fur (2013), Based On A True Story (2017) and An Officer and a Spy (2019). In 2010, Seigner was featured in Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing, which went on to win the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In 2012, she played the principal role of Vanda in Polanski's French film adaption of David Ives's two-character play Venus in Fur, based on the Austrian novel of the near-same name, for which she received praise as Vanda, an actress, playing against writer and theatre director Thomas played by Mathieu Amalric.

Seigner appears as the main character in the music video "Hands Around My Throat" by Death in Vegas. In 2006, she became the lead singer of the pop rock band Ultra Orange, and the group's name was changed to Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle. They released a self-titled album in 2007. Seigner released a solo album called Distant Lover in 2014. She and Polanski live with their two children in Paris. She was an ambassadress of the Polish brand Dr Irena Eris.

Source: Article "Emmanuelle Seigner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Bungalow 21
Title: Bungalow 21
Character: Marilyn Monroe
Released: March 26, 2024
Type: Movie
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Pet Shop Days
Title: Pet Shop Days
Released: September 3, 2023
Type: Movie
In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in New York City where he meets Jack, a college age pet store employee with similar parental baggage. Together the two enter a whirlwind romance sending them down the rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. When Alejandro’s past threatens to catch up with him, Jack is forced to choose between his family and a life on the run.
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Title: Quelle époque !
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 24, 2022
Type: TV
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An Officer and a Spy
Title: An Officer and a Spy
Character: Pauline Monnier
Released: September 30, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
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At Eternity's Gate
Title: At Eternity's Gate
Character: Madame Ginoux
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
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Title: Insoupçonnable
Character: Chloé Fisher
Released: August 31, 2018
Type: TV
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Based on a True Story
Title: Based on a True Story
Character: Delphine
Released: November 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place, paralyzed by the idea of having to start writing again, she meets Elle, a young, attractive, intelligent, intuitive woman who seems to understand her better than anyone.
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Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Title: Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2017
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
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Stalin's Couch
Title: Stalin's Couch
Character: Lidia
Released: November 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.
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Heal the Living
Title: Heal the Living
Character: Marianne
Released: November 1, 2016
Type: Movie
The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.
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The Siege of Jadotville
Title: The Siege of Jadotville
Character: Madame LaFontagne
Released: September 19, 2016
Type: Movie
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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Title: Quotidien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 12, 2016
Type: TV
Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC.
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Venus in Fur
Title: Venus in Fur
Character: Vanda
Released: May 28, 2013
Type: Movie
An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: Josiane
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has become a famous star, but his success threatens his relationships with Déa and Ursus.
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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Title: Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 9, 2012
Type: Movie
An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work.
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In the House
Title: In the House
Character: Esther
Released: September 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
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A Few Hours of Spring
Title: A Few Hours of Spring
Character: Clémence
Released: September 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last months of her life, will they finally be capable of taking a step toward each other?
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Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out
Title: Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 9, 2012
Type: Movie
A follow-up to the 2008 documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired", focusing on the filmmaker's successful battle to avoid extradition in to the U.S. in 2010.
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Essential Killing
Title: Essential Killing
Character: Margaret
Released: September 6, 2010
Type: Movie
A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.
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Giallo
Title: Giallo
Character: Linda
Released: March 13, 2010
Type: Movie
In Italy, a woman fears her sister has been kidnapped; Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
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Chicas
Title: Chicas
Character: Nuria
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.
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Change of Plans
Title: Change of Plans
Character: Sarah Mattei
Released: February 18, 2009
Type: Movie
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
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Lou Reed's Berlin
Title: Lou Reed's Berlin
Character: Caroline
Released: September 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Lou Reed recorded the album Berlin in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years, he never performed the album live. For five nights in December 2006 at St. Ann's Warehouse Brooklyn, Lou Reed performed his masterwork about love's dark sisters: jealousy, rage and loss.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Character: Céline Desmoulins
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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La Vie en Rose
Title: La Vie en Rose
Character: Titine
Released: February 14, 2007
Type: Movie
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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Four Last Songs
Title: Four Last Songs
Character: Helena
Released: January 11, 2007
Type: Movie
A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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Backstage
Title: Backstage
Character: Lauren Waks
Released: November 16, 2005
Type: Movie
An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine as, with near-operatic intensity, the film delves into the emotional dependency on both sides of celebrity culture.
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Hedda Gabler
Title: Hedda Gabler
Character: Hedda Gabler
Released: November 4, 2004
Type: Movie
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Happily Ever After
Title: Happily Ever After
Character: Nathalie
Released: August 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
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The Immortals
Title: The Immortals
Character: Madeleine Durand
Released: November 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
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Body to Body
Title: Body to Body
Character: Laura
Released: April 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Laura Bartelli is a stripper in a French bar. She retires after a moody landscape architect named Marco Tisserand asks her to abandon her life and share his. However, after her red Volkswagen runs off the road en route to the rendezvous, she ends up scarred and comatose in a hospital. Marco stays at her bedside.
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Streghe verso nord
Title: Streghe verso nord
Character: Lucilla
Released: November 15, 2001
Type: Movie
In a world parallel to ours, things and people have supernatural powers. Witches exist, they are beautiful and attractive and try to do their 'work' to the fullest.
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Hotel Laguna
Title: Hotel Laguna
Character: Thelma Pianon
Released: April 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.
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Buddy Boy
Title: Buddy Boy
Character: Gloria
Released: March 24, 2000
Type: Movie
An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.
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The Ninth Gate
Title: The Ninth Gate
Character: The Girl
Released: August 25, 1999
Type: Movie
An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and Satanic worship.
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Place Vendôme
Title: Place Vendôme
Character: Nathalie
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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RPM
Title: RPM
Character: Michelle Claire
Released: June 23, 1998
Type: Movie
A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
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The Gods Must Be Daring
Title: The Gods Must Be Daring
Character: Bobbi
Released: April 30, 1997
Type: Movie
A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.
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Nirvana
Title: Nirvana
Character: Lisa
Released: January 24, 1997
Type: Movie
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
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Let's Hope It Lasts
Title: Let's Hope It Lasts
Character: Julie Neyrac
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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Le Sourire
Title: Le Sourire
Character: Odile
Released: August 17, 1994
Type: Movie
An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.
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Bitter Moon
Title: Bitter Moon
Character: Mimi
Released: September 2, 1992
Type: Movie
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
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The King of Ads
Title: The King of Ads
Character: Self (segment "Vanity Fair commercial")
Released: November 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.
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Dark Illness
Title: Dark Illness
Character: The Girl
Released: February 22, 1990
Type: Movie
After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.
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Frantic
Title: Frantic
Character: Michelle
Released: February 19, 1988
Type: Movie
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
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Private Tuition
Title: Private Tuition
Character: Zanon
Released: November 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing her of lewd and immoral conduct. Matters take a turn for the worse when a photograph of an orgy is sent to all the faculty with one face cut out; presumably, the face is hers.
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Detective
Title: Detective
Character: Princess of the Bahamas
Released: August 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV