Emmanuelle Chaulet

Emmanuelle Chaulet (* 1961 in La Rochelle ) is a French - American actress .

Career

Emmanuelle Chaulet grew up in her hometown La Rochelle on the French Atlantic coast. At 18, she went to Paris , studied economics and then took acting lessons from Robert Cordier. At a theater performance she made the acquaintance of the French director Éric Rohmer , who often worked with as yet unknown actors and cast her in the lead role of his 1987 film The Friend of My Friend . She then won a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York .

Over the next three years she worked with other well-known directors such as Claire Denis ( Chocolat ), Alain Resnais ( I Want to Go Home ) and Jon Jost ( All the Vermeers in New York ). After 1990 it largely disappeared from the screen. She has acted and directed theaters in France and the United States. She took American citizenship in 2000. From 1993 to 2013 she was on the theater faculty at the University of Southern Maine . Since then she has been giving acting lessons. In 2008 she published the book A Balancing Act about her acting technique. Chaulet lives with her husband, the French painter and photographer Jean-Pierre Rousset, and their son in Paris, Hendaye and La Rochelle.

Filmography

• 1987: My friend's boyfriend (L'Ami de mon amie)
• 1988: Chocolat - Forbidden Longing (Chocolat)
• 1989: I Want to Go Home
• 1990: I fell for you (Je t'ai dans la peau)
• 1990: All the Vermeers in New York
• 2005: Sundowning

Web links

• Emmanuelle Chaulet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Emmanuelle Chaulet at Voice Dialogue Acting.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
2. ↑ ^{a b} G. S. Bourdain: New Face: Emmanuelle Chaulet; Learning From Eric Rohmer . In: The New York Times, September 2, 1988.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Emmanuelle Chaulet at Voice Dialogue Acting.
4. ↑ VDA En Entreprise for Voice Dialogue Acting.
5. ↑ Emmanuelle Chaulet at the University of Southern Maine .