Déborah François

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Déborah François at the Deauville Film Festival , 2009

Déborah François (born May 24, 1987 in Liège ) is a Belgian actress .

biography

The daughter of a police officer and a social worker was born the middle of three children and grew up in Liège, Wallonia, in the Belgian province. François first came into contact with acting when she was five when she was seen on stage as Snow White . She later attended theater courses at high school. Déborah François was discovered in 2005 by the two directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne , who entrusted her with the female lead in their feature film The Child . The social drama, which takes place not far from François' hometown in the shabby industrial town of Seraing , focuses on the young people Bruno and Sonia, who live from welfare and theft. Bruno sells a first child to child traffickers for a few thousand euros. This film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 , where it received critical acclaim and the Palme d'Or for best film. Although the work of the Dardenne brothers focuses on the young Belgian actor Jérémie Renier , François' performance as an actor was also taken into account. The part of Sonia earned her the Joseph Plateau Prize , the Belgian equivalent of the Oscar , and a nomination for César for best young actress .

After her debut as an actress, Déborah François finished high school and was able to seamlessly build on the previous success with her second film role in Denis Dercourt's thriller The Girl Who Turns the Pages . In the film she plays the cool and calculating butcher's daughter Mélanie, who takes revenge on the bourgeoisie . Years earlier, the hopeful piano talent believed his career was ruined by the carelessness of a famous pianist and jury chairman (played by Catherine Frot ); now she is exerting revenge and, by chance, invades the pianist's family unrecognized, first as a nanny and then as a flipper . For the role of Mélanie, François studied Joseph L. Mankiewicz ' Alles über Eva (1950), in which Bette Davis and Anne Baxter compete for success as New York theater actresses, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema - Geometry of Love and the works of Claude Chabrol, among others . She reduced her facial expressions to playing with eyes and mouth, which earned her the favor of international film critics, who praised her for her changeability and compared her to the young Catherine Deneuve in Roman Polański's disgust . The reward for François, who originally wanted to become a literature teacher, was again in 2007 a nomination for César as best young actress.

After The Child and The Girl Who Turns the Pages , the Belgian was represented in 2007 with leading roles in the movie Les fourmis rouges and the television production Dombais et fils . In Stephan Carpiaux 's drama Les fourmis rouges , she plays the 16-year-old half- orphan Alex, who, isolated in a small village in the Ardennes , becomes aware of her awakening sexuality. In Laurent Jaouis Dombais et fils , the actress, who counts Charlotte Rampling and Julia Roberts among her role models, together with Christophe Malavoy . In the same year François was appointed to the jury of the 19th Angers European Film Festival alongside Josée Dayan and Hubert Sauper . Four more cinema productions are to follow in 2008, including Jean-Paul Salomé's drama Les femmes de l'ombre with Sophie Marceau , Marie Gillain and Moritz Bleibtreu . After two unsuccessful nominations, she received in 2009 for the part of the adolescent Fleur in Rémi Bezançon's tragicomedy C'est la vie - This is how we are, this is life for César as the best young actress . In the same year François was awarded the Romy Schneider Prize .

Filmography

Awards

  • 2006: César nomination for Das Kind ( Best Young Actress )
  • 2006: Joseph Plateau Prize for Das Kind (Best Belgian Actress)
  • 2007: Suzanne Bianchetti Prize
  • 2007: César nomination for The Girl Who Turns the Pages (Best Young Actress)
  • 2009: César for C'est la vie - This is how we are, this is life (best young actress)
  • 2009: Romy Schneider Prize

Web links

Commons : Déborah François  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Keller, Florian: Discreet revenge on the bourgeoisie . In: Tages-Anzeiger , February 7, 2007, GES, SKOL !, p. 45
  2. ↑ cf. Zips, Martin: "Not now, Mommy" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 21, 2007
  3. ↑ a b c cf. Lerf, Matthias: Destructive blonde . In: SonntagsZeitung , January 28, 2007, culture, abpfiff, p. 51
  4. ↑ cf. Bradshaw, Peter: A score to settle . In: The Guardian (London), November 3, 2006, Guardian Film and Music Pages, p. 10
  5. ↑ cf. Festival à Angers: La 19e édition du Festival d'Angers, qui a ouvert… . In: Les Échos , January 24, 2007, Telex, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME François, Déborah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege , Belgium