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Hard (TV Series)
Hard is a French television series created and produced by Cathy Verney, airing since 9 May 2008 on Canal+ in France, and later internationally. The series focuses on the pornographic movie industry. It is part of the "New Trilogy" collection on Canal+. Synopsis After the sudden death of her husband, Sophie discovers through her mother-in-law, that her late husband did not run a successful software company, but instead produced pornographic films, with Soph'X being the legacy. Bewildered and dismayed, at discovering a world she couldn't conceive of in a thousand years, she hesitates between taking over the company or selling everything to resume her job as a lawyer. To pay the mortgage held by her husband before his death, she has to decide to modernize Soph'X, until a meeting with porn star and pillar of the company, Roy Lapoutre, forces her hand. Cast Recurring Role *Natacha Lindinger – Sophie *François Vincentelli – Jean-Marc Danel / Roy Lapoutre *Stéphan Wojtowicz – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Verney
''Cathy'' is an American gag-a-day comic strip, drawn by Cathy Guisewite from 1976 until 2010. The comic follows Cathy, a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life—food, love, family, and work. The strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. The strip debuted on November 22, 1976, and appeared in over 1,400 newspapers at its peak. The strips have been compiled into more than 20 books. Three television specials were also created. Guisewite received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 1992 for the strip. History Initially, the strip was based largely on Guisewite's own life as a single woman. "The syndicate felt it would make the strip more relatable if the character's name and my name were the same," Guisewite said in an interview. "They felt it would make it a more personal strip, and would help people know it was a real woman who was going through these things. I hated the idea of calling it 'Cathy'. Guisewite had Cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Sidney
Fanny Sidney (born Fanny Mauferon; April 5, 1987) is a French actress and director. Career Sidney was born on April 5, 1987, in Paris. She attended the Conservatoire Municipal Hector Berlioz (2005-2006) then took part in the free class of Cours Florent (2006-2009) before joining the "Direction" section of La Fémis (2011-2015). She is particularly known for her role as Camille Valentini in the series Call My Agent!. In 2019, she announced that she was pregnant with her first child. Filmography Cinema * 2005 : '' Claudia disparue'' by Serge Roullet * 2008 : '' La Neige au village'' by Martin Rit * 2008 : '' L'Ennemi public n°1'' : Sabrina Mesrine * 2008 : '' Avoue que tu mens'' by Serge Roullet * 2010 : '' Poème pour Louis'', short film by Thomas Gendreau : Anna * 2011 : '' Soulwash'', short film by Douglas Attal : Flora * 2012 : '' Populaire'' by Régis Roinsard : the fan of the regional championship * 2012 : '' À l'ombre du palmier'', short film by Bruno Veni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyes Salem
Lyès Salem (Arabic: إلياس سالم) (Algiers, 1966) is an Algerian actor and film director. His first film as director, Masquerades, won several prizes in France. Filmography As director * ''Lhasa'' short 1999 * '' :fr:Cousines'' short. Awards at Festival de Clermont-Ferrand and César Awards. * ''Jean-Farès'' short. Awards Festival international du film de Marrakech 2001 * ''Mascarades'' first feature film As actor * '' L’Ecole de la Chair'' (1998) * ''American Cuisine'' (1998) - Karim * ''Rendezvous in Samarkand'' (1999) - Mohammed * ''Meet the Baltringues'' (2000) * ''Filles uniques'' (2003) - L'avocat jeune beur * ''À ton image'' (2004) - Antoine * ''Banlieue 13'' (2004) - Samy * ''Alex'' (2005) - Karim * ''Munich'' (2005) - Arab Guard #1 * '' Délice Paloma'' (2007) - Maître Djaffar * ''The First Day of the Rest of Your Life'' (2008) - Le type saoul qui veut du Abba * ''Mascarades'' (2008) - Mounir Mekbel * ''La tête en friche'' (2010) - Youssef - le serveur * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Gallienne
Guillaume Gallienne (born 8 February 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He has received two Molière Awards for his stagework and has won two César Awards, one for writing and the other for his performance in his autobiographical comedy film ''Me, Myself and Mum'' (2013). Early life Gallienne was born in Paris to French businessman Jean-Claude and Russian-Georgian aristocrat Melitta Gallienne, the third of four sons. From the age of 10, he attended La Salle Passy Buzenval where he was bullied for his effeminate personality. Two years later, after a nervous breakdown, he was sent to St John's College, Portsmouth, St John's College near Portsmouth in England. The death of a close cousin convinced him to take up acting at the age of 19. He attended Cours Florent for three years before studying under Daniel Mesguich, Stéphane Braunschweig and Dominique Valadié at the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1998. Career Gallienne made his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Lépine
Françoise Lépine is a French actress. Theatre Filmography References External links * * French film actresses Living people 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{france-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Civil
François Civil (; born 29 January 1990) is a French actor. He has appeared in both French and English-language feature films and is known for his roles in ''Frank'' (2014), ''As Above, So Below'' (2014), ''Call My Agent!'' (2015–17), ''Five'' (2016), '' Burn Out'' (2017), ''The Wolf's Call'' (2019), '' Someone, Somewhere'' (2019), '' Who You Think I Am'' (2019), '' Love at Second Sight'' (2019), and '' BAC Nord'' (2021). Civil was twice included in the César Awards Révélations list, in 2009 and 2012 respectively, and received a Trophée Chopard at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. He has received two nominations for the César Award for Best Supporting Actor List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Supporting Actor (french: César du meilleur second rôle masculin). History Superlatives List of winners and nominees 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple awards an .... Filmography Awards and nominations Theatre References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elli Medeiros
Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress. Career Stinky Toys Originally from Uruguay, Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the punk band Stinky Toys. Elli et Jacno After the group disbanded, Medeiros joined another Stinky Toy member Jacno to form the electropop duo Elli et Jacno. Together they released several albums, one of them the soundtrack to an Éric Rohmer film ''Les nuits de la pleine lune''. Solo The singer went solo in 1986. The songs, "Toi mon toit" (1986) and "A bailar calypso" (1987), were big hits in France and had a more Latin sound than her previous records. She sang back-up vocals on several of pop star Etienne Daho's songs from his 1996 album ''Eden''. She also helped co-write his song "Me manquer" from the same album. Elli Medeiros appears in a number of French films and has worked with, among others, Olivier Assayas and Philippe Garrel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élisabeth Margoni
Élisabeth Margoni (born 16 January 1945) is a French actress. She appeared in more than seventy films since 1968. Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Margoni, Elisabeth 1945 births Living people People from Mantes-la-Jolie French film actresses French television actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Podalydès
Denis Podalydès (born 22 April 1963) is a French actor and scriptwriter of Greek descent. Podalydès has appeared in more than 140 films and television shows since 1989. He starred in '' The Officers' Ward'', which was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Career He is a former student of the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, and became a pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française in 1997, and then a sociétaire in 2000, now considered as one of their major actors. He became the 505th sociétaire on 1st January 2000. Before joining that company he had appeared in '' Sophonisbe'' by Corneille (1988), '' L'Épreuve'' and '' Les Sincères'' by Marivaux (1989), '' La Double Inconstance'' by Marivaux and ''Ruy Blas'' by Victor Hugo (1990), ''Le Misanthrope'' by Molière, and ''Bérénice'' by Racine (1992), ''Les Fausses Confidences'' by Marivaux (1992), and ''Anatol'' by Arthur Schnitzler in 1995. Director From 2006, he began directing for the stage, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cécile De France
Cécile de France (; born 17 July 1975) is a Belgian actress. After achieving success in French cinema hits such as ''L'Art (délicat) de la séduction'' (2001) and ''Irène'' (2002), she gained international attention for her lead roles in ''High Tension'' (2003) and ''Hereafter (film), Hereafter'' (2010). Life and career Born in Namur (city), Namur, she left Belgium at the age of 17 to go to Paris where she studied theatre for two years with actor Jean Paul Denizon, assistant to British director Peter Brook. She then spent three years (1995–98) at the acting academy :fr:École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre, ENSATT (''École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre'') in the ''Département Comédie'' first at the ''Rue Blanche'' in Paris, then in Lyon. She was discovered by the agent Dominique Besnehard and appeared in French hit films such as ''L'Art (délicat) de la séduction'' (2001) and ''Irène'' (2002). Her international b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Benoît
Anne Benoît is a French actress. She has appeared in more than 60 film and television productions since 1981. Career Benoît was trained at the Conservatoire de Versailles, under the direction of Marcelle Tassencourt. She later attended the Tania Balachova theatre school, and enrolled in workshops conducted by Antoine Vitez, Sophie Loucachevsky and Aurélien Recoing Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director. Personal life Aurélien Recoing is the son of (puppeteer), and the brother of (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist, .... She made her film debut in the 1981 film ''Schools Falling Apart'' (''Le Bahut va craquer'') directed by Michel Nerval. Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Benoit, Anne Living people French film actresses French television actresses French stage actresses 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses Year of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michèle Laroque
Michèle Laroque (; born 15 June 1960) is a French actress, comedian, humorist, producer and screenwriter. Early life Michèle Laroque was born in Nice in the department of Alpes-Maritimes. She is the daughter of Romanian dancer and violinist Doina Trandabur, who fled to France to escape Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's regime in Communist Romania. Her father is French doctor Claude Laroque, who met Doina a year earlier during a tour. Michèle is also the niece of Pierre Laroque, the creator of Social Security in France. She studied economics and English, taking comedy classes at the same time in Antibes and then moving to America on a campus in Austin, Texas. In 1979, along with her best friend, she was victim of a car accident that resulted in two years of hospitalisation, a long convalescence and several months of reeducation. Following an extended coma and associated psychological trauma, she made the decision to become a comedian. Career She made her television début in 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
