Mathilda May
Mathilda May (* 8. February 1965 as Karin Haïm in Paris ) is a French actress .
Life
Mathilda May is the daughter of a Scandinavian prima ballerina and the playwright Victor Haïm , who comes from a Jewish family of Greek-Turkish origin. As a child, she let herself be renamed from “Karin” to “Mathilde” and later chose the pseudonym “Mathilda May”. She studied ballet for ten years and then decided to act when she was 18. For her first film role in Nemo , she received the Romy Schneider Prize as the best young actress .
Mathilda May had particular success in French film in the 1980s when she worked with great directors such as Claude Chabrol and Werner Herzog . However, she was no longer able to build on these successes; from the mid-1990s onwards she could almost only be seen on television. For a short time she also tried herself as a singer of jazz pieces.
Filmography (selection)
- 1983: Nemo / Dream One
- 1985: Letters to an Unknown Lover
- 1985: Lifeforce - The Deadly Menace (Lifeforce)
- 1987: The naked shadow (La passarelle)
- 1987: The Secret of the Sahara (Il segreto del Sahara)
- 1987: The Owl's Cry (Le cri du hibou)
- 1989: Naked Tango (Naked Tango)
- 1990: Isabelle Eberhardt
- 1991: Colette
- 1991: Cerro Torre: Scream made of stone
- 1992: Sweetheart (Toutes peines confondues)
- 1994: The tit and the moon (La teta y la luna)
- 1994: The Prince and the Whipping Boy
- 1997: The Jackal (The Jackal)
- 2007: The woman divided into two parts (La fille coupée en deux)
- 2012: Men and women (Les infidèles)
Discography
- Mathilda May (Columbia, 1992)
- Joy Of Love (Columbia, 1992)
- If you Miss (Columbia, 1993)
bibliography
- Personne ne le saura. Flammarion, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-08-068459-2 .
- VO Éditions Plon, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-259-26432-7 .
Web links
- Mathilda May in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Publications by Mathilda May in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mathilda May in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathilda May: VO Éditions Plon, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-259-26432-7 Prologue
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | May, Mathilda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haïm, Karin (maiden name); Haïm, Mathilde (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |