Anne Consigny

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Anne Consigny (2009)

Anne Consigny (born May 25, 1963 in Alençon ; actually Marie Consigny ) is a French actress .

life and career

Anne Consigny, whose father was cabinet director of the French Prime Minister Maurice Couve de Murville in the late 1960s , began her acting career in 1980 in Paris under the direction of Peter Brook in a production of Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, which was also recorded for television . From 1982 to 1984 she played at the Comédie-Française .

Her film debut was marked in 1981 by the Japanese film Yume, yume no ato (Rêves après rêves) directed by the fashion designer Kenzō Takada , in which she was seen with Anicée Alvina . She had her first important role in 1985 in a Portuguese film adaptation of Paul Claudel's drama The Silky Shoe as Maria Siebenschwert , directed by Manoel de Oliveira .

In the years that followed, Anne Consigny played primarily in the theater and had a few appearances on television. In 1993 she appeared in Benoît Jacquot's documentary La Place Royal, about a performance of Pierre Corneille 's comedy of the same name at the Théâtre de la Commune in Aubervilliers . In 2002 she received a nomination for the Molière Theater Prize for best supporting actress in the stage comedy Théâtre Sans Animaux . From 2002 she also played supporting roles in cinema and television films, for example in Isabelle Nanty's comedy Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine) , in Philippe Lioret's drama The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife and in the crime thriller 36 Deadly Rivals with Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu .

In 2006, the female lead in the comedy You Don't Have to Love Me earned her a César nomination for Best Actress . In the same year, the miniseries L'État de Grace , in which she played the first female president of France , only achieved disappointing ratings for the broadcaster France 2 . In 2007 Anne Consigny appeared in the drama Anna M. and in Julian Schnabel's award-winning biographical film Butterfly and Diving Bell . She received another César nomination in 2010 for her supporting role in Lucas Belvaux 's kidnapping thriller Rapt . In 2009 Consigny starred in Alain Resnais ' film Caution Sehnsucht at the side of André Dussollier and Sabine Azéma . Again she had a leading role in the modern relationship epic E-Love , where, as an "almost 50-year-old" (that's how she calls herself in the film) looking for a new "man for life" at first rather reluctantly, then but always “working off” Internet acquaintances who are keen to experiment. Since 2012 she has also played in the series Les Revenants , a mystery series in which she plays the mother of a resurrected girl.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Anne Consigny  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IMDb biography Anne Consigny , accessed January 30, 2008
  2. ↑ Biography Anne Consigny lesgensducinema, accessed on 31 January 2008
  3. ^ La Place Royal in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  4. ↑ actricesdefrance: Anne Consigny ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 31, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / filmos.actricesdefrance.org
  5. ↑ ↑ d'audience 2  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 1, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.imedias.biz  
personal data
SURNAME Consigny, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Consigny, Marie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Alençon , France