Agnes Jaoui

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Agnès Jaoui (2015)

Agnès Jaoui (born October 19, 1964 in Antony near Paris ) is a French actress , writer and director .

Life

Jaoui comes from a Jewish family who emigrated to France from Tunisia .

Jaoui often works with Jean-Pierre Bacri as a scenarioist and actress . Bacri and Jaoui were also a couple in private for a long time. The films are often based on plays that the two had written and previously performed. The theatrical presentation can still be recognized in the comedies themselves by the few actors involved and the spatial unit.

She has received several awards for her scripts, her directorial work and also as an actress. Her film Lust auf anders (Le goût des autres) won four Césars in 2001 , including César for best film of the year and for best screenplay. For look at me! she received the European Film Award for the best screenplay, together with Jean-Pierre Bacri, who, like herself, played a leading role in the film. Jaoui was also nominated for Best Director at the European Oscar and received the Screenplay Award at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2004 .

Jaoui began taking singing lessons at the Paris Conservatory at the age of 15. Singing - in her own film Comme une Image she plays a singing teacher - she also accompanies her in acting again and again. In the spring of 2005, she toured a couple of French cities with some South American friends with a show called Historias del amor . This program resulted in the CD Canta , released in 2006.

Jaoui and Bacri continue their successful collaboration with their new film Tell me something about rain (2009). Jaoui also wrote the script herself for her third feature film and was represented as a director and leading actress both in front of and behind the camera.

In 2017 she was appointed to the competition jury at the 70th Cannes Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1983: Deadly Trace ( Le Faucon ) - Director: Paul Boujenah - Actress
  • 1987: Die Verliebte ( L'Amoureuse ) - Director: Jacques Doillon - Actress
  • 1987: Hôtel de France - Director: Patrice Chéreau - Actress
  • 1993: Cuisine et dépendances - Director: Philippe Muyl - Author (with Jean-Pierre Bacri), actress
  • 1993: Smoking / No Smoking - director: Alain Resnais - author (with Jean-Pierre Bacri ), actress
  • 1996: Typically family! ( Un air de famille ) - Director: Cédric Klapisch - Author, actress
  • 1997: Le Cousin - Dangerous Knowledge ( Le Cousin ) - Director: Alain Corneau - Actress
  • 1998: Life is a chanson ( On connaît la chanson ) - director: Alain Resnais - author, actress
  • 2000: Lust auf Other ( Le Goût des autres ) - author (with Jean-Pierre Bacri), director, actress
  • 2002: 24 heures dans la vie d'une femme - director: Laurent Bouhnik - actress
  • 2004: Le Rôle de sa vie - Director: François Favrat - Actress
  • 2004: look at me! ( Comme une image ) - author (with Jean-Pierre Bacri), director, actress
  • 2008: Tell me about the rain ( Parlez-moi de la pluie ) - author (with Jean-Pierre Bacri), director, actress
  • 2013: Under the rainbow ( Au bout du conte ) - author (with Jean-Pierre Bacri), director, actress
  • 2015: Only flying is more beautiful ( Comme un avion ) - Actress, Director: Bruno Podalydès
  • 2015: Mademoiselle Hanna and the art of saying no (Je suis à vous tout de suite) - actress, director: Baya Kasmi
  • 2017: Madame Aurora and the Scent of Spring (Aurore) - actress, director: Blandine Lenoir
  • 2018: Champagne & Macarons - An unforgettable garden party (Place publique) - author (with Jean-Pierre Bacri), director, actress
  • 2018: The Art of Charity (Les Bonnes Intentions) - Actress, Director: Gilles Legrand

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ moviepilot.de: Tell me something about the rain - Interview with the main actors Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri

Web links

Commons : Agnès Jaoui  - collection of images
personal data
SURNAME Jaoui, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actress, writer, director and singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Antony near Paris , France