Audrey Dana

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Audrey Dana, 2014

Audrey Statler Rachel Dana (born September 21, 1977 in Rueil-Malmaison , Hauts-de-Seine ) is a French theater and film actress and film director .

Life

Audrey Dana was born near Paris as one of four children to a journalist of Jewish origin and a Catholic American . She grew up in Beauce , where her mother Mary converted the family's farm into a home for neglected children, as a result of which Dana was confronted with violence and drugs at an early age and where she was raised by her older sister Marie-Noëlle after the overwhelmed mother left.

Dana, who wanted to be an actress even as a child, attended the Orléans Conservatory , from which she graduated with honors, and then the École supérieure d'art dramatique in Paris. After Dana, who has both French and American citizenship, lived in New York for two years , she returned to Paris. From then on she was regularly on stage there, including in Bernard Werber's Nos amis les humains in 2004 . Werber finally offered her a role in Nos amis les terriens (2006), a film adaptation of his play, for which he wrote the script and also took over the direction. Director Claude Lelouch appeared as a producer. Convinced of her talent, Lelouch gave her the role of Huguette in his thriller Roman de gare (2007) at the side of Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardant .

For her performance in Roman de gare , Dana received a nomination for César for Best Young Actress and was also awarded the Romy Schneider Prize . For her role in Welcome (2009), a film drama about illegal migration, she was again nominated for the César in the category Best Supporting Actress. In 2010 she stood in front of the camera for the film Nous trois with Emmanuelle Béart . In the same year followed with the film drama Ces amours-là , in which she played a cinema operator in occupied Paris in the 1940s, another collaboration with Claude Lelouch and the female lead in the adventure film 600 kilos of pure gold set in French Guiana ! and an appearance in Bertrand Blier's comedy The Sound of Ice Cubes alongside Jean Dujardin .

With the comedy French Women - What women really want (2014), Dana directed her first feature film, in which she also played a role as one of eleven different women living in Paris alongside Isabelle Adjani , Vanessa Paradis and Laetitia Casta . The film proved to be a commercial success but was criticized for portraying women in a stereotypical manner. She then starred alongside Isabelle Huppert in the comedy Sehnsucht nach Paris (2014). In the comedy Mein neue bestesstück , published in 2017 , she was again used as a director and at the same time played the leading role alongside Christian Clavier . Directed by Martin Provost , she then starred in the tragic comedy A Kiss from Béatrice (2017) alongside Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot in a supporting role.

Dana has a son (* 2008) from a relationship with director Mabrouk El Mechri . There is also a son from a previous relationship (* approx. 2000).

Filmography (selection)

Dana at the American Film Festival in Deauville , 2012
  • 2006: Nos amis les terriens
  • 2007: Roman de gare
  • 2007: Ce soir, je dors chez toi
  • 2008: Second souffle (short film)
  • 2009: Tellement proches
  • 2009: Welcome
  • 2009: Ah! La libido
  • 2009: La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil
  • 2010: Nous trois
  • 2010: Ces amours-là
  • 2010: 600 kilos of pure gold! (600 kilos d'or pure)
  • 2010: The sound of ice cubes (Le bruit des glaçons)
  • 2011: Jouer avec le feu (short film)
  • 2011: Le secret de l'enfant-fourmi
  • 2012: torpedo
  • 2013: Les jeux des nuages ​​et de la pluie
  • 2013: The Jewish Cardinal (Le métis de Dieu)
  • 2014: French Women - What women really want (Sous les jupes des filles) - also directed
  • 2014: Longing for Paris (La ritournelle)
  • 2015: Boomerang
  • 2015: French Cuisine (Pension complète)
  • 2017: My new best piece (Si j'étais un homme) - also directed
  • 2017: A kiss from Béatrice (Sage femme)
  • 2017: Docteur Knock - A doctor with certain side effects (Knock)
  • 2019: Convoi exceptionnel
  • 2019: La vérité si je mens! Les debuts
  • 2019: Le voyageur (TV movie)
  • 2019: Pour Sarah (TV Miniseries)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Audrey Dana  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. lesgensducinema.com
  2. ↑ Audrey Dana: Drogue, violence ... Souvenirs de son enfance difficile on purepeople.com, August 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Christine Haas: Audrey Dana: avec Mabrouk El Mechri, c'est fusionnel . In: Paris Match , March 19, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b cf. madame.lefigaro.fr
  5. ↑ Audrey Dana est maman! ( Memento of March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on purepeople.com, December 27, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Dana, Audrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dana, Audrey Statler Rachel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Rueil-Malmaison , Hauts-de-Seine