Cecile de France

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Cécile de France at the Berlinale 2017

Cécile de France [ seˈsil dəˈfrɑ̃ːs ] (born  July 17, 1975 in Namur ) is a Belgian actress .

Life

Youth and education

Cécile de France grew up in Andenne , very close to her birthplace, Namur. She began acting as a child, and from 1990 she took lessons from Jean-Michel Frère. At the age of 17 she went to Paris , where she worked as an au pair and took acting lessons from Jean-Paul Denizon and Peter Brook . At the Paris Art Academy she was also active as a nude model from time to time. Between 1995 and 1998 she studied drama at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT) in Lyon , where, following her diploma, she was signed by an acting agency that also included Isabelle Adjani , Charlotte Gainsbourg , Sophie Marceau and Béatrice Dalle represented.

Acting career

From 1998 onwards, Cécile de France quickly became known to a wide audience in France in the theater, cinema and television. Already in her first movie Regarde-moi (en face) (2000) she played the leading role in the role of a young woman who falls in love with the son of a voyeur. A year later she appeared in Richard Berry's directorial debut, the sex comedy L'Art (délicat) de la séduction , where she embodied the long-unattainable object of desire of the sexually inexperienced protagonist, played by Patrick Timsit . This was followed by a small appearance as an inconspicuous prostitute in Eugène Green's debut film Toutes les nuits (2001) about the friendship of two young men who followed different paths in life at the end of the 1960s.

In 2002, de France achieved an international breakthrough with Cédric Klapisch's hit comedy L'auberge espagnole, alongside Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou . For her portrayal of the lesbian Erasmus student Isabelle, she received several film prizes as a young talent in 2003: the César , the Étoile d'Or , the Prix ​​Lumières and the European Shooting Stars Award . After L'auberge espagnole she starred alongside Bruno Putzulu in the title role of the romantic comedy Irène (2002) as an unmarried young woman who was beginning to panic at the end of the day. In Berry's second directorial work, the children's film Ich, Caesar. 10 ½ years old, 1.39 meters tall , she took on a supporting role in 2003 as the new friend of a family man. In the same year she played the lead role under the direction of Alexandre Aja in the splatter film High Tension , which was indexed in Germany and which achieved a certain cult status among fans of the genre . In the meantime, Hollywood became aware of de France, whereupon she played the leading female role alongside Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan in the Jules Verne film adaptation of In 80 Days Around the World (2004), produced by Disney and mostly shot in Germany . She then appeared with Vincent Lindon in the comedy film La Confiance règne as the slightly smarter half of a rogue couple who shamelessly make use of the money and valuables of wealthy people as domestic staff. In 2005 she was finally awarded the prestigious Romy Schneider Prize as a young actress . As the successor to Monica Bellucci , she hosted the 58th Cannes International Film Festival that same year .

De France at a preview of Sœur Sourire - The Singing Nun (2009)

After the sequel to L'auberge espagnole , which was released in German cinemas under the title L'auberge espagnole - Wiedersehen in St. Petersburg (2005) and for which de France won her second César in the category Best Supporting Actress , she led in 2006 the cast of the ensemble film A Perfect Place by Danièle Thompson . For the role of a young waitress who is looking for her place in life in Paris, she was together with her appearance in Xavier Giannoli's Chanson d'Amour (2006) at the side of Gérard Depardieu in the role of an aging chanson singer for the first time in the category Best Leading actress nominated for the César. Also in 2006 she played the role of a young officer in the film drama The Colonel and I , which retells France's inglorious role in the Algerian war as part of a criminal act and mainly in black and white flashbacks , as well as the female lead alongside Roschdy Zem in his directorial debut Mauvaise foi , one of the Love between a Jewish woman and an Arab acting relationship comedy.

In 2007, de France was also seen on French television. Directed by old master Claude Chabrol , she appeared in an episode of Chez Maupassant , which was based on the short story La Parure by Guy de Maupassant . After the little-noticed dance film Gene Broadway - Dance ... or Love? (2007) starring Vincent Elbaz and Jean-Pierre Cassel , de France stood in front of the camera alongside Patrick Bruel , Ludivine Sagnier , Julie Depardieu and Mathieu Amalric in A Secret (2007) by Claude Miller for another literary adaptation. The film drama about a Jewish family who tried to escape the deportation of the Jews during the Vichy regime and has since been burdened by a family secret, was nominated for a total of eleven Césars. Cécile de France was able to book another nomination for best leading actress. After a supporting role as the gangster bride of the criminal Jacques Mesrine played by Vincent Cassel in the commercially successful and often César nominated action thriller Public Enemy No. 1 - Mordinstinkt (2008) de France slipped into the biopic Sœur Sourire - The Singing Nun (2009) in the role of the Belgian nun and chanson singer Jeanine Deckers , whose song Dominique became a worldwide hit in the early 1960s.

De France with Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood and Bryce Dallas Howard at the 2010 New York Film Festival
De France 2011 at the Cannes Film Festival

In 2010, de France first appeared as a policewoman in the drug thriller Off Limits , which was followed by another trip to Hollywood in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter . At the side of Matt Damon , she played a tsunami survivor with a near-death experience in Eastwood's film drama . Her next film, the neo-realistic social drama The Boy with a Bicycle by Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne , was shown in the 2011 competition for the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes International Film Festival . The film about a boy abandoned by his father, whom de France-played hairdresser Samantha takes on as foster mother, was ultimately awarded the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes and was also nominated for the Golden Globe in the category of best foreign language Film . De France was again nominated for the European Film Prize and, after Sœur Sourire, for the second time for the Belgian Film Prize Magritte . In the same year she was next to Valeria Golino , Elsa Zylberstein and Vincent Perez in The Kiss of the Butterfly again part of the cast of an ensemble film, which, however, in contrast to A Perfect Place, was not a success. For the satirical film drama Superstar (2012) about an average man who becomes famous overnight without knowing why, de France then worked again under the direction of Xavier Giannoli. In 2013 she came afterwards as an accomplished financial expert who secretly works for the CIA , in the agent thriller The Möbius Affair alongside Jean Dujardin and Tim Roth . The third part of the L'auberge espagnole series then followed for the actress with Relatively New York (2013) . In 2014 she hosted the 39th César Awards .

In Denis Dercourt's 2015 film drama In Equilibrium, de France played the role of an insurance clerk who rediscovered her love of piano playing after meeting a paraplegic stuntman played by Albert Dupontel . She then appeared in Catherine Corsini's autobiographical film La belle Saison - Eine Sommerliebe , in which she - again nominated by César - took on the role of a Parisian suffragette who fell in love with a younger country woman in the early 1970s. Also in 2015, she appeared as herself in the first episode of the Paris-based television series Call My Agent! where she is rejected because of her age for a role believed to be safe in a Tarantino film and almost undergoes treatment by a cosmetic surgeon in an attempt to get the role after all.

De France with Reda Kateb and director Étienne Comar at the Berlinale 2017

Like A Secret , her subsequent film project, Fannys Reise (2016), was set in France during the Second World War . In the film, which is based on real events, de France took on the role of a home manager who helps Jewish children escape deportation to Switzerland . She also played a similar role in 2017 in the opening film of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival , the biopic Django - A life for music , which depicts the life of jazz musician Django Reinhardt, portrayed by Reda Kateb , during the German occupation in Paris and his subsequent escape to Switzerland traces.

In 2016, de France played the role of Sofia Dubois in the international high-profile television series The Young Pope , which was filmed by Paolo Sorrentino for Sky Atlantic , HBO and Canal + and supports the Pope embodied by Jude Law as Marketing Director of the Holy See . After the film comedy Eine Bretonische Liebe (2017) with François Damiens , she played the female lead alongside Édouard Baer in Emmanuel Mouret's Diderot film The Price of Temptation (2018) , which earned her another César nomination. In 2018, de France was appointed to the competition jury of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival under jury president Tom Tykwer .

In the 2019 film comedy Rebelinnen - Don't mess with them! together with Yolande Moreau and Audrey Lamy , de France formed a recalcitrant trio of women from the working class who took on the Belgian mafia. Her next film, the film drama A Bigger World by Fabienne Berthaud , tells the true story of a French woman who travels to Mongolia after the death of her beloved husband and is trained as a shaman . In The New Pope , the sequel to The Young Pope , in which John Malkovich Jude Law succeeds the papal throne, de France appeared again in the role of Sofia Dubois from 2019.

Private life

Cécile de France has been married to the musician Guillaume Siron since 2006 and is the mother of a son (* 2007) and a daughter (* 2012). The actress lives secluded with her family in the country.

Filmography (selection)

Theater appearances (selection)

Awards

Cécile de France 2014 at the 39th César Awards, which she moderated
César
  • 2003: Best young actress for L'auberge espagnole
  • 2006: Best supporting actress for L'auberge espagnole - Reunion in St. Petersburg
  • 2007: Double nomination in the category Best Lead Actress for A Perfect Place and Chanson d'Amour
  • 2008: Nomination in the category Best Actress for A Secret
  • 2016: Nomination in the category Best Lead Actress for La belle Saison - A Summer Love
  • 2019: Nomination in the category Best Actress for The Price of Temptation
Étoile d'Or
  • 2003: Best young actress for L'auberge espagnole
  • 2007: Best Actress for Mauvaise foi and Chanson d'Amour
European film award
  • 2011: Nomination in the category Best Actress for The Boy with a Bicycle
Fangoria Chainsaw Award
  • 2006: Best Actress for High Tension
Festival du Court Métrage de Bruxelles
  • 2000: Best actress for Le Dernier rêve
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur
  • 2007: Bayard d'Or in the Best Actress category for Où est la main de l'homme sans tête
Globe de Cristal
  • 2007: Nomination in the category Best Actress for A Perfect Place
  • 2008: Best Actress for A Secret
  • 2019: Nomination in the category Best Actress for The Price of Temptation
  • 2020: Nomination in the category Best Actress - Comedy for Rebels - Don't mess with them!
Berlin International Film Festival
Magritte
  • 2011: Nomination in the category Best Actress for Sœur Sourire - The Singing Nun
  • 2012: Nomination in the category Best Actress for The Boy with a Bicycle
  • 2018: Nomination in the category Best Actress for A Breton Love
  • 2019: Nomination in the category Best Actress for The Price of Temptation
  • 2020: Nomination in the category Best Actress for A Bigger World
Prix ​​Lumières
Romy Schneider Prize
  • 2005: Best Young Actress
Saturn Award
  • 2011: Nomination in the category Best Actress for Hereafter - Life After
Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya
  • 2003: Best Actress for High Tension

Web links

Commons : Cécile de France  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Heer: Cécile de France on sex scenes and feminism . Interview with Cécile de France. In: Annabelle , May 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b cf. berlinale.de
  3. ↑ cf. schnittberichte.com
  4. ↑ See Cécile de France, Mistress of Ceremony ( memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on festival-cannes.com, May 11, 2005.
  5. ↑ cf. academie-cinema.org
  6. ↑ Floriane Goujon: Cécile de France: qui est son mari, Guillaume Siron? . In: Femme Actuelle , September 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME De France, Cecile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES France, Cécile de (wrong approach)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Namur