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person_profile-Agnès Jaoui

Agnès Jaoui Age: 60

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Agnès Jaoui

Date of Birth:

Oct 19, 1964

Country of birth:

France

Biography of

Agnès Jaoui

    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.

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Agnès Jaoui

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Filmography of

Agnès Jaoui

Found 36 Movies in total

This Life of Mine

Barberie Bichette ( Actor )

... 2024

This is My Mother

Judith ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2024

... 2023

A Wonderful Girl

Claire Bloch ( Actor )

... 2023

Wow!

Actor

... 2023

Life Lessons

Noémie Capdenac ( Actor )

... 2023

Yuku and the Himalayan Flower

La Renarde (voice) ( Actor )

... 2022

Alain Resnais, l'audacieux

Self - Cinéaste ( Actor )

... 2022

Becoming Marilyn

Narrator ( Actor )

... 2022

Singing Jailbirds

Catherine ( Actor )

... 2022

The Companions

Hélène ( Actor )

... 2022

Bacri, comme un air de famille

herself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker

Self - Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2021

Place publique

Hélène ( Actor )

Writer

... 2018

I Got Life!

Aurore Tabort ( Actor )

... 2017

I'm All Yours

Simone Belkacem ( Actor )

... 2015

The Sweet Escape

Laëtitia ( Actor )

... 2015

The Easy Way Out

Ariel ( Actor )

... 2015

Under the Rainbow

Marianne ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2013

The Dandelions

Colette Gladstein ( Actor )

... 2012

Let It Rain

Agathe Villanova ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2008

Nina's House

Nina ( Actor )

... 2005

Look at Me

Sylvia Millet ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2004

The Role of Her Life

Elisabeth Becker ( Actor )

... 2004

24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

Marie Collins Brown ( Actor )

... 2002

The Taste of Others

Manie ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2000

Une femme d'extérieur

Françoise ( Actor )

... 2000

On the Run

Kirstin ( Actor )

... 1999

Same Old Song

Camille Lalande ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1997

Le Déménagement

Claire ( Actor )

... 1997

Family Resemblances

Betty Ménard ( Actor )

Writer

... 1996

Kitchen with Apartment

Charlotte ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1993

Canti

Actor

... 1991

Women in Love

Agathe ( Actor )

... 1987

Hôtel de France

Mme Bouguereau ( Actor )

... 1987