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Agnès Jaoui

Agnès Jaoui

Actor · b. 1964 · Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Agnès Jaoui (born 19 October 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer. Jaoui has won six César Awards, three Lumières Awards, and a Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She has received numerous other awards and nominations, including a nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Jaoui was born in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, and is of Tunisian Jewish descent. She is the daughter of Hubert Jaoui and Gyza Jaoui, who are both writers. They moved to Paris when she was 8 years old. She started theatre when she was in high school at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. She entered the Cours Florent when she was 15. Patrice Chéreau, director of the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre where she began attending drama classes in 1984, gave her a role in the film Hôtel de France in 1987. That same year, she appeared in Harold Pinter's L'anniversaire with Jean-Pierre Bacri, who later became a faithful colleague and companion. Jaoui and Bacri wrote the play Cuisine et dépendances, which was adapted onscreen in 1992 by Philippe Muyl. In 1993, director Alain Resnais asked them to write an adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's 8-part play Intimate Exchanges, which became the 2-part film Smoking/No Smoking. This ironic diptych about free will and destiny won the César Award for Best Writing in 1994. In 1996, they came to know greater success with Cédric Klapisch's adaptation of their play Family Resemblances (Un air de famille), which showed their ability to observe and depict everyday life, and to criticize the social norms through bitter and corrosive humor. Once again, they won the César Award for Best Writing in 1997 and the same year collaborated again with Resnais on Same Old Song (On connaît la chanson), which they wrote but also interpreted: together, they won their third César Award for Best Writing, and Jaoui her first César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Jaoui directed her first feature film, The Taste of Others (Le Goût des autres, 2000, written with Bacri), which questions social-cultural identities. The film was a huge success in France and attracted 4 million spectators. It also won 4 César Awards in 2001 including Best Film and Best Writing, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2004, Jaoui's second film as a director, Look at Me (Comme une image), co-written with Bacri, was selected for the Cannes Festival and won the prize for Best Screenplay. She starred in the last Richard Dembo's film, La maison de Nina (2005) and then focused on music and released her album of Latin songs, Canta (2006). She returned to cinema in 2008 with Let's Talk About the Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie), with French humorist Jamel Debbouze in a different role from what he was used to. In 2012, Jaoui directed her latest film to date, Under the Rainbow (Au bout du conte), also co-written with Bacri. She revisits several fairy tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood. It received acclaim from critics and audiences for originality and humor in the writing and dialogue. ... Source: Article "Agnès Jaoui" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies21

  • Movie6.1

    Aurore

    I Got Life!

    2017 · 142 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Le Déménagement

    1997 · 34 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Le Goût des autres

    The Taste of Others

    2000 · 383 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Au bout du conte

    Under the Rainbow

    2013 · 104 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Yuku et la fleur de l’Himalaya

    Yuku and the Himalayan Flower

    2022 · 14 votes

  • Movie7.0

    La vie de ma mère

    This is My Mother

    2024 · 66 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Ma vie ma gueule

    This Life of Mine

    2024 · 29 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Devenir Marilyn

    Becoming Marilyn

    2022 · 21 votes

  • Movie5.0

    L'Amoureuse

    Women in Love

    1987 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Comme un avion

    The Sweet Escape

    2015 · 156 votes

  • Movie7.0

    On connaît la chanson

    Same Old Song

    1997 · 160 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Wahou !

    Wow!

    2023 · 88 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Le Dernier des Juifs

    A Nice Jewish Boy

    2024 · 56 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Place publique

    2018 · 169 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Hôtel de France

    1987 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Comme une image

    Look at Me

    2004 · 106 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Parlez-moi de la pluie

    Let It Rain

    2008 · 73 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Chambre 999

    Room 999

    2023 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.7

    L'Objet du délit

    Crescendo

    2026 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Du vent dans mes mollets

    The Dandelions

    2012 · 104 votes

  • Movie5.6

    24 heures de la vie d'une femme

    24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

    2002 · 14 votes

Series13

  • TV5.1

    Quotidien

    2016 · 19 votes

  • TV3.6

    Vivement dimanche

    1998 · 9 votes

  • TV5.8

    Télématin

    1985 · 2 votes

  • TV3.3
  • TV
  • TV7.4

    Burger Quiz

    2001 · 28 votes

  • TV1.0

    Beau geste

    2023 · 1 votes

  • TV8.1

    En thérapie

    In Treatment

    2021 · 43 votes

  • TV7.4

    Becoming Karl Lagerfeld

    2024 · 28 votes

  • TV6.8

    Foodie Love

    2019 · 36 votes

  • TV8.5

    Cherchez la femme !

    2022 · 2 votes

  • TV2.3

    Cinéma 16

    1975 · 3 votes

  • TV