Virginie Efira

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Virginie Efira (2016)

Virginie Efira (* 5. May 1977 in Schaerbeek , Belgium ) is a Belgian actress . From 1998 to 2010 she was a presenter on Belgian and French television.

Career

Youth and education

Virginie Efira is the daughter of the beautician, artist and restorer Carine Verelst, who lives in the Luberon , and of the professor and oncologist André Efira . She was born in 1977 in Schaerbeek, one of 19 municipalities in the bilingual Brussels-Capital region in Belgium . She has a sister and two brothers. Your sister plays American football ; one of her brothers is a painter , the other brother builds tree houses in South America . She studied Latin , mathematics , psychology and social sciences . After graduating from school, she went to the Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion (INSAS) and the Royal Conservatory in Brussels , one of the six public universities of music and theater in Belgium.

TV presenter

Efira started working for the Belgian television broadcaster Club RTL in 1998 . Marc Nivesse , the producer of Mégamix, a television show for young people, chose her to host the show with Lidia Gervasi. In 2000 she had a guest appearance alongside Patrick Ridremont , her future husband, on an episode of the television program Night Shop on the television channel Canal + Belgique . From September 2002, she presented daily at prime time in Belgium on RTL TVI with Frédéric Herbays, initially the television program Star Academy and then À la Recherche de la Nouvelle Star .

Discovered during a casting for the weather forecast in 2003 on the French TV channel M6 , she quickly became the new face of the TV channel's entertainment division. In 2003 she co- hosted the finale of the Opération séduction aux Caraïbes and then moderated Le Grand Zap, La Saga des…, Follement Gay, Absolument 80/90, Le Grand Piège and Drôles d'équipes, among others . During her time at the TV station M6, she hosted Classé Confidentiel in 2005 . In 2006 she took over as the successor to Benjamin Castaldi , who had switched to the French TV channel TF1 , to present the program Nouvelle Star . In addition, she continued to present occasional programs for the television station RTL-TVI in Belgium. With her move to the French television channel Canal + in June 2008, she gave up the moderation of the television program Nouvelle Star . In the following years she hosted the entertainment program Canal Presque with Ahmed Hamidi , an ex-author at Les Guignols de l'info .

In 2010, in Paris Match , a French weekly magazine, she announced that she would not switch to entertainment television and focus on her acting career. Efira appeared on Frédéric Lopez's TV show Rendez-vous en terre inconnue in 2010 , in which she met representatives of the Mongolian minority Tsaatan . The episode was broadcast on France 2 television and achieved a record audience of 8.1 million viewers. In 2013 she was invited by Frédéric Lopez to appear on the television program La Parenthèse inattendue , alongside Philippe Gildas and Tony Estanguet .

actress

She made her first experiences in her acting career as a voice actress . 2004 and 2006 synchronized with the real movies Garfield and Garfield 2 respectively Liz Wilson , by the American US actress Jennifer Love Hewitt was represented. She then made the short film Africains poids moyens , a Belgian-Congolese film by Daniel Cattier , which was presented at the 15th Festival du Cinéma Africain the following year  . In 2005, she dubbed Piper Pinwheeler in the computer animation film Robots . She then played in the play Pour ses beaux yeux by René de Obaldia in Belgium at the Théâtre de la Valette .

In 2006 Efira shot a 52-minute fiction film for a television station and with Bruno Putzulu the television film Un amour de fantôme . She also played the wife of Bohort in the French television series Kaamelott . In 2007 she starred in the television series Off Prime alongside Alban Lenoir , Simon Astier and Elise Otzenberger . During this time, Bruno Solo and Stéphane Kopecky directed. Philippe Lefebvre let her play her first role in a movie in 2010 in Le Siffleur , alongside Thierry Lhermitte and François Berléand . In the same year she celebrated her first success in the film L'amour c'est mieux à deux with Manu Payet and Clovis Cornillac . Then she played in the love comedy La Chance de ma vie the following year .

On the basis of five main female roles they had played this year, including the incarnation of a MILF in the romantic comedy It Boy - Love in French by David Moreau , it was in 2013 by the lifestyle magazine GQ voted "Woman of the Year". In 2015 she played the role of a mother in the comedy Une famille à louer by Jean-Pierre Améris . In the same year she sat on the jury of the 26th  Festival du film britannique de Dinard , chaired by Jean Rochefort . In 2015, Efira played the lead role in the film Pear Cake with Lavender .

Poker

Efira played poker . In 2007 she took part in the Défi des As and promoted the website Poker770 . She also played in major tournaments such as the European Poker Tour in Deauville . Without having won a tournament by then, she gave up poker in 2015.

Private life

Efira started a relationship with actor and producer Patrick Ridremont in 2000 , who at the time already had three children. The couple married in 2002 and separated in 2005. In February 2009, the couple signed the divorce papers on the television show Panique dans l'oreillette . After that, she had a relationship with the French director and screenwriter Mabrouk El Mechri . Their daughter was born on May 24, 2013. The couple separated a year later.

Filmography

As an actress

  • 2005: Africains poids-moyens (short film)
  • 2006: Kaamelott
  • 2007: Off Prime
  • 2009: Kaamelott
  • 2009: Les barons
  • 2007: Mon amour de fantôme
  • 2010: En chantier, monsieur Tanner
  • 2010: Le siffleur
  • 2010: L'amour c'est mieux à deux
  • 2010: Kill Me Please
  • 2011: À la maison pour Noël
  • 2011: La chance de ma vie
  • 2011: My dearest nightmare (Mon pire cauchemar)
  • 2012: Hénaut President
  • 2013: Cookie
  • 2013: Dead Man Talking
  • 2013: It Boy - Love in French (20 ans d'écart)
  • 2013: Les invincibles
  • 2013: Between the waves (En solitaire)
  • 2015: Caprice
  • 2015: Family for rent (Une famille à louer)
  • 2015: Pear cake with lavender (Le goût des merveilles)
  • 2016: Et ta sœur?
  • 2016: My pretty little friend (Un homme à la hauteur)
  • 2016: Elle
  • 2016: Victoria Men & Other Mishaps (Victoria)
  • 2017: Pris de court
  • 2017: Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent) - Virginie et Ramzy (TV series)
  • 2017: Not on My Watch (Pris de court)
  • 2018: A basin full of men (Le grand bain)
  • 2018: An Impossible Love (Un amour impossible)
  • 2018: Keep Going (Continuer)
  • 2019: Sibyl - Therapy pointless (Sibyl)
  • 2020: Police

As a voice actress

Theatrical appearances

  • 1999: L'étranger, Théâtre en Belgique
  • 1999: Jacques Brel, Théâtre en Belgique
  • 2003: Le ciel de lit, Théâtre de la Valette à Ittre.
  • 2005: Pour ses beaux yeux, Théâtre de la Valette
  • 2006: The cat on the hot tin roof ( La chatte sur un toit brûlant )
  • 2009: Nathalie, Théâtre Marigny

Awards

  • Monte-Carlo Comedy Film Festival 2010: best actress in La Chance de ma vie
  • Magritte 2012 : Audience Award
  • Magritte 2012: nomination for best supporting actress in Kill Me Please

literature

Web links

Commons : Virginie Efira  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beaudoin, Anne-Cécile: Virginie Efira ne touche plus terre , Paris Match, January 11, 2010
  2. ↑ Simon, Nathalie: Virginie Efira, la Jennifer Aniston belge , Le Figaro, April 19, 2015, p. 36
  3. ↑ Souvenirs 90's - Megamix (Lidia Gervasi et Virginie Efira) , sonnycrockettfan.blogspot.de, December 28, 2015
  4. ↑ La télé déboule au cinéma , Paris Match, July 11, 2011
  5. ↑ Émission du 23 février 2013 , France 2
  6. ↑ Les grands gagnants the GQ Men of the Year Awards 2013 , Purebreak.com
  7. ↑ Virginie Efira, mère poule: “Ma fille Ali me suit partout” , Purepeople.com
  8. ↑ Star et accro au poker: Virginie Efira , linternaute.com
  9. ↑ Virginie Efira: “J'ai arrêté le poker” , pokernews.com, December 19, 2015
  10. ↑ La fin d'une belle histoire , sur DH.be, August 17, 2005
  11. ↑ Virginie Efira et Patrick Ridremont divorcent pendant une émission: la vidéo , sur News de stars, February 13, 2009
  12. ↑ Fiche de Mabrouk El Mechri , Gala.fr
  13. ↑ Virginie Efira, maman: Elle a donné naissance à son premier enfant, une fille! , purepeople.com, May 26, 2013
  14. ↑ Virginie Efira séparée de Mabrouk El Mechri selon Voici , LeGossip.net, May 16, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Efira, Virginie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian actress and former television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaerbeek , Belgium