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François-Xavier Demaison (actor)
François-Xavier Demaison (born 22 September 1973) is a French actor and humorist. Personal life Demaison was born in Asnières-sur-Seine. Both his parents were lawyers. He studied theater but dropped out to focus on an economics degree. After graduating in 1998 from the Sciences Po in Paris, he began his career as an auditor before joining Landwell & Associés (law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers PWC) in the field of International taxation. In August 2001, he was sent on an internship to their New York office. On 11 September 2001, Demaison witnessed the attack on the World Trade Center from his office in Manhattan. After this traumatic event, he decided not to continue on this career path and returned to his first love, the theater. He resumed contact with former teachers who helped him stage his own show, ''Act Two'' (he invested his saving of 5000 euros). It opened at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell The Théâtre du Gymnase or Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asnières-sur-Seine
Asnières-sur-Seine () is a Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department and Île-de-France Regions of France, region of north-central France. It lies on the left bank of the river Seine, some eight kilometres from the Kilometre zero#France, centre of Paris in the north-western Banlieue, suburbs of the French capital. The inhabitants are called the ''Asniérois'' and the ''Asniéroises'' in French. Name Asnières-sur-Seine was originally known simply as Asnières. The name was recorded for the first time in a papal bull of 1158 – as ''Asnerias'', from Medieval Latin ''asinaria'', meaning "donkey farm". The poor soil of Asnières, where Ericaceae, heather grew in medieval times, was probably deemed suitable only for the breeding of donkeys. By the early 20th century it had become a favourite boating centre for Parisians, and its industries included boat building. On 15 February 1968 the commune was officially renamed Asnières-sur-Seine to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rémi Bezançon
Rémi Bezançon (born 25 March 1971) is a French director and screenwriter. Life and career Rémi Bezançon studied at the École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA) in Paris and the École du Louvre. In 2005, he released his first feature film ''Ma vie en l'air'' with Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche and Vincent Elbaz before meeting with success in 2008 with ''The First Day of the Rest of Your Life''. In 2011, he directed '' Un heureux événement'', his third feature film adapted from the autobiographical best-seller by Eliette Abécassis, with Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï and Josiane Balasko. The soundtrack, as with his previous films, is composed by Sinclair. Filmography Awards * Césars 2009: nominated for César Award for Best Writing for'' The First Day of the Rest of Your Life'' * Césars 2009: nominated for César Award for Best Director for'' The First Day of the Rest of Your Life'' * Césars 2009: nominated for César Award for Best Film f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano
Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano are French filmmakers, best known for directing the films '' Those Happy Days'' and ''The Intouchables'' (2011). Early life Nakache and Toledano are both Jewish. Nakache was born to Jewish migrant parents from Algeria. His sister is actress and director Géraldine Nakache. Éric Toledano was born to Jewish migrant parents from Morocco. Career Nakache and Toledano collaborated several times before directing ''The Intouchables'' (2011), which became one of the greatest box office successes in French film history and for which they were nominated for several awards, including three Cesar Awards. They have collaborated several times with actor Omar Sy, most recently with the 2014 film ''Samba''. Their 2019 film ''The Specials'' stars Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb. The film shows Parisians from many different groups in society making connections with each other through their work with autistic children and young people. Nakache and Toledano di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tellement Proches
''Tellement proches'' () is a 2009 French film directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano, starring Vincent Elbaz, Isabelle Carré, François-Xavier Demaison, Audrey Dana, Omar Sy, and Joséphine de Meaux. Synopsis ''Tellement proches'' is the story of Alain, who marries Nathalie and is forced to wrestle with the reality of his new in-law family, with all their combined eccentricities. Cast and characters * Vincent Elbaz as Alain * Isabelle Carré as Nathalie * François-Xavier Demaison as Jean-Pierre * Audrey Dana as Catherine * Omar Sy as Bruno * Joséphine de Meaux as Roxane * Jean Benguigui as Prosper * Catherine Hosmalin as Nicole * Lionel Abelanski as Charly * Lizzie Brocheré as Clara * Valérie Karsenti as Chantal * Max Clavelly as Lucien * Matthieu Boujenah as Old Lucien * Ary Abittan as Moshé Benhamou * Talina Boyaci as Gaëlle * Arsène Mosca as Patrice * Laurence Février as Colette * Jean-Pierre Clami as Étienne * Laurentine Milebo as Fatou * Renée Le Calm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Tirard
Laurent Tirard (born 18 February 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter. Life and career Laurent Tirard grew up admiring American films, such as those by Steven Spielberg. He studied film making at New York University, worked as a script reader for Warner Bros. studios, then became a journalist and worked for the French film magazine ''Studio'' for six years. There, he conducted a series of interviews on film making which have been published as a book under the title ''Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors.'' From Woody Allen to David Cronenberg, the Coen brothers to Lars Von Trier, all film directors run up against the same essential concerns: how to direct actors, for example, or whether to pre-plan camera angles. In interviewing these and 16 other notable filmmakers, Tirard found notable affinities between seemingly dissimilar directors. The book has also been published in France, Canada, England, Italy, Spain and Brazil. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Nicholas
''Little Nicholas'' (french: Le Petit Nicolas), also known as ''Petit Nicolas'' (UK), is a 2009 French-Belgian family comedy film directed by Laurent Tirard, who co-wrote with Grégoire Vigneron and Alain Chabat. It is based on a series of children's books by René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé. The film features an ensemble cast led by Maxime Godart in the title role of Nicolas. The film was theatrically released in France on 30 September 2009 by Wild Bunch Distribution, Central Film, and EOne Films. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and earned $100.8 million on a $22.7 million budget. It won the French Television of Ontario (TFO) Prize for Best Youth Film at the Cinéfranco in 2010 and also received nominations for the César Award for Best Writing – Adaptation, the European Film Award for People's Choice Award for Best European Film, and the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for Best Foreign-Language Film. A sequel, ''Nicholas on Holiday'', was released on 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Award For Best Actor
This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actor (french: César du meilleur acteur). History Superlatives Winners 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple wins and nominations The following individuals received two or more Best Actor awards: The following individuals received three or more Best Actor nominations: One actor has the record of most consecutive nominations with 4: Gerard Depardieu (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980/ 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986/ 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991) See also *Lumières Award for Best Actor *Magritte Award for Best Actor *European Film Award for Best Actor *Academy Award for Best Actor * BAFTA Award for Best Actor References External links * César Award for Best Actorat '' AlloCiné'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Cesar Award For Best Actor Actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine De Caunes
Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes. Career He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including '' Cobra'' and '' Space Sheriff Gavan'' (known in France as ''X-Or''). His early TV appearances included ''Chorus'' (1975), the series ''Les Enfants du rock'', again for A2, and then his breakthrough with ''Nulle part ailleurs'' for Canal+. In 1988, De Caunes started making an English-language version of his French music programme '' Rapido'', for Janet Street-Porter's youth and entertainment programming strand DEF II, with new episodes of ''Rapido'' usually being broadcast as part of DEF II's Wednesday night schedule on BBC2. He then went on to create the long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coluche
Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci (, ; 28 October 1944 – 19 June 1986), better known under his stage name Coluche (), was a French stage comedian and cinema actor. He adopted ''Coluche'' as a stage name at age 26, when he began his entertainment career. He became known for his irreverent attitude towards politics and the establishment, and he incorporated this into much of his material. He was one of the first major comedians to regularly use profanities as a source of humor on French television. He also founded the charity " Les Restaurants du Cœur" which still provides free meals and other products to people in need. Early life Colucci was born on 28 October 1944, just weeks after the Liberation of Paris, in a hospital in the 14th arrondissement of the city. His mother, Simone Bouyer (called "Monette"), worked as a florist in the Boulevard du Montparnasse. His father, Honorio Colucci, from Casalvieri in Lazio, Italy, was a painter and decorator. His father died in 1947 at age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Ribes
Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directed ''Merci Bernard'' and since 1988 works on ''Palace''. In 2008, Ribes had directed ''Batailles'' which he co-wrote with Roland Topor and next year became a director of the ''Un garçon impossible'', a play by Petter S. Rosenlund and 's ''Les Diablogues''. In 2010, in Théâtre du Rond-Point he directed ''Les Nouvelles Brèves de Comptoir'' in which Jean-Marie Gourio had starred. In 2011, he wrote and directed ''René l’énervé - Opéra bouffe et tumultueux'', on the music by Reinhardt Wagner. A year later, he returned to Théâtre du Rond-Point at which he directed play ''Théâtre sans animaux'' and Sébastien Thiéry's '' L’Origine du Monde'' in 2013. Theater Filmography *1978: '' The Swindle'' *1986: ''La galette du roi'' *199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day At The Museum
''A Day at the Museum'' (french: Musée haut, musée bas; ) is a 2008 French ensemble comedy film directed by Jean-Michel Ribes Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had direct .... Plot The museum seen as a microcosm. This is both a theater, with its stage and behind the scenes, and an anthill with his queen (Conservative), his soldiers (guards) her workers (handlers) and aphids (visitors). Cast References External links * 2008 films 2008 comedy films French comedy films 2000s French-language films 2000s French films {{2000s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Castel
Catherine Marie Simone Tricot (5 February 1949 – 19 September 2018), known professionally as Catherine Castel, or Cathy Tricot, was a French actress and director. Career She was best known for appearing in films directed by Jean Rollin, alongside her twin sister Marie-Pierre Castel. Catherine has appeared in several Rollin films with Marie-Pierre including his vampire classics '' The Nude Vampire'' and '' Lips of Blood'' and his erotic films ''Bacchanales Sexuelles'' and ''Hard Penetrations''. She appeared in several other Rollin films, such as ''La comtesse Ixe'', ''Sexual Vibrations'' and ''The Fiancée of Dracula'' (2002), final film. Rollin originally wanted Castel to appear in his earlier films '' The Shiver of the Vampires'' and '' Requiem for a Vampire'', but she became pregnant and the roles were offered to Marie-Pierre. Other She was a make-up artist for ''La comtesse Ixe'' and ''Phantasmes''. She has been credited in films as "Cathy Tricot", "Catherine Tricot" an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
