Valérie Lang

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Valérie Lang (born March 24, 1966 in France - † July 22, 2013 in Paris ) was a French actress with character roles in film, television and theater. She was considered a versatile theater actress and also starred in several cinema productions in the 1990s and 2000s, including An Affair in Paris , The Beautiful Girl , The Father of My Children and Accomplices .

life and career

Valérie Lang was born in 1966 as the youngest daughter of Jack Lang , who later became French Minister of Culture . Caroline (* 1961) is her older sister. From 1989 to 1992 she trained as an actress at the Parisian CNSAD in the class of Jean-Pierre Vincent. From 1992 to 1998 she was a permanent member of the Nordey Almond theater group . From 1998 to 2001 she was director of the Théâtre Gérard Philipe alongside Stanislas Nordey .

Valérie Lang played her first film role in 1995 in James Ivory's historical drama Jefferson in Paris . In 2003 it was again director James Ivory who cast her in his comedy An Affair in Paris . 2008 and 2009, then roles followed in French dramas as in Christophe Honoré's The beautiful girl in Mia Hansen-loves The father of my children , or in the thriller complicity by director Frédéric Mermoud.

Her last appearance on television was in Josée Dayan's production La mauvaise rencontre in 2011 .

Valérie Lang died on July 22, 2013 at the age of 47 from complications from cancer.

Actress roles (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

Short film

  • 1992: Cocon

theatre

  • 1993: Quatorze Pièces piégées; by Armando Llamas, director Stanislas Nordey , CDRC's Studio Théâtre in Nantes
  • 1993: Calderon; by Pier Paolo Pasolini , director Stanislas Nordey
  • 1994: pylade; by Pier Paolo Pasolini, director Stanislas Nordey, Le Quartz, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
  • 1994: Quatorze pièces piégées; by Armando Llamas, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
  • 1995: Splendid's; by Jean Genet , director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (voix off)
  • 1996: La Noce; by Stanislas Wyspianski, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers
  • 1997: J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne; by Jean-Luc Lagarce , director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Ouvert
  • 1998: Comédies féroces: Les Présidentes / Enfin mort, enfin plus de souffle / Excédent de poids / Insignifiant / Amorphhe; by Werner Schwab , director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
  • 1998: Tartuffe; by Molière , director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
  • 1998: Mirad, un garçon de Bosnie; by Ad de Bont , director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
  • 1999: Les Comédies féroces; by Werner Schwab, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre des Treize Vents
  • 2000: contention; by Didier-Georges Gabily précédé de La Dispute de Marivaux et autres bestioles, director Stanislas Nordey
  • 2000: Pornocracy. Le Pouvoir de la courtisane, director Catherine Breillat, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
  • 2001: Mirad, un garçon de Bosnie; by Ad de Bont, Festival de Liège
  • 2001: Violences: Âmes et Demeures et Corps et tentations; by Didier-Georges Gabily, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre national de Bretagne, Théâtre national de la Colline
  • 2002: L'Épreuve du feu; by Magnus Dahlström, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre national de Bretagne
  • 2003: orgy; by Pier Paolo Pasolini, director Laurent Sauvage
  • 2003: La Puce à l'oreille; by Georges Feydeau , director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre national de Bretagne
  • 2004: La Puce à l'oreille; by Georges Feydeau, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre des Treize Vents, Théâtre National de Strasbourg, Théâtre national de la Colline, Théâtre du Nord
  • 2004: Le Triomphe de l'amour; von Marivaux , director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre national de Bretagne
  • 2005: Le Triomphe de l'amour; von Marivaux, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers
  • 2006: Pasteur Ephraïm Magnus; by Hans Henny Jahnn , director Christine Letailleur, Théâtre de Gennevilliers
  • 2006: Électre; by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre national de Bretagne
  • 2007: Électre; by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre national de la Colline
  • 2007: La Philosophie dans le boudoir; von Sade , director Christine Letailleur, Théâtre national de Bretagne, Comédie de Caen, Théâtre de Gennevilliers
  • 2008: Philosophy in the boudoir du marquis; von Sade, director Christine Letailleur, Théâtre national de Strasbourg, MC2, tournée
  • 2008: Nothing hurts; by Falk Richter , director Stanislas Nordey, Festival de Monaco
  • 2008: Andromaque; by Euripide, director Jean-Christophe Saïs, Nuits de Fourvière, Festival d'Athènes, Festival Grec de Barcelone, Festival international de Carthage, Festival international d'Hammamet
  • 2009: La Vénus à la fourrure; by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , director Christine Letailleur, Théâtre national de la Colline
  • 2009: Hiroshima mon amour; by Marguerite Duras , director Christine Letailleur, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
  • 2011: Le Château de Wetterstein; by Frank Wedekind , director Christine Letailleur, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, TNB
  • 2011: La nuit sera chaude; by Josiane Balasko , director Josiane Balasko, Théâtre de la Renaissance
  • 2011: Traversée, lectures à l'occasion des 40 ans de Théâtre Ouvert, France Culture Festival d'Avignon
  • 2011: Sodome, ma douce; by Laurent Gaudé, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Ouvert
  • 2012: Hiroshima mon amour; by Marguerite Duras, director Christine Letailleur, Théâtre de la Ville

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Valérie Lang in: Télérama