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Coline Serreau | |
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 Coline Serreau speaks with Mouvement Colibris in 2012 | |
| Born | 29 October 1947 Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, film director and writer |
Coline Serreau (born 29 October 1947) is a French actress, film director and writer. [1]
She was born in Paris, [2] the daughter of theatre director Jean-Marie Serreau and actress Geneviève Serreau. In Paris, Serreau studied literature, music and theatre [2] and is a trained organist and trapeze artist. [2]
Her stage work began at the Comédie Française and she has written many plays. [2] Her film debut in 1977 was Pourquoi pas!, a love triangle story which was a success around Europe. [2]
Her 1985 comedy Trois hommes et un couffin (remade in the US as Three Men and a Baby was the most commercially successful film of the 1980s in French. [2]
In 1970, she made her debut as an actress at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier.[ citation needed ]
Serreau wrote her first screenplay in 1973.[ citation needed ]
Her first film, the documentary film Mais qu'est-ce qu'elles veulent? (1978), literally: But What Is It That They Want?, was a compilation of interviews with women from various backgrounds. The frankness of the statements shocked parts of the public.
Her biggest commercial success was the comedy film Three Men and a Cradle (Trois hommes et un couffin; 1985), [1] for which she received three César Awards in 1986. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [3]
In 1986, her first drama for the stage Lapin Lapin (Rabbit Rabbit), directed by Benno Besson, had its world premiere. She collaborated with Besson for several years and he also staged Le théâtre de verdure (1987) and Quisaitout et Grobêta (1993).
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2014 | Couleur locale | Co-writer and co-director with Samuel Tasinaje | |
| 2014 | Tout est permis | Writer, Director | |
| 2010 | Solutions locales pour un désordre global | Writer, Director | [4] |
| 2005 | Saint-Jacques… La Mecque | Writer, Director | |
| 2003 | 18 ans après | Writer, Director | [5] [6] |
| 2001 | Chaos | Writer, Director | [7] [8] [9] |
| 1996 | La Belle Verte | Writer, Director | [10] [11] |
| 1992 | La Crise | Writer, Director | [12] [13] |
| 1989 | Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed (Romuald et Juliette) | Writer, Director | [1] [14] [15] [16] |
| 1985 | Three Men and a Cradle (Trois hommes et un couffin) | Writer, Director | [1] [17] [18] [19] [20] |
| 1982 | Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux | Writer, Director | |
| 1979 | Grand-mère de l'Islam | ||
| 1978 | Mais qu'est ce qu'elles veulent? | Writer, Director | |
| 1977 | Why Not! (Pourquoi pas) | Writer, Director | [21] [22] |
| 1974 | On s'est trompé d'histoire d'amour | Screenplay and role of Anne |
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Notes |
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| 2002 | Norwegian International Film Festival | Audience Award | Chaos | Won | |
| Norwegian Film Critics Award | Won | ||||
| 2002 | César Awards, France | Best Film (Meilleur film) | Chaos | Nominated | [23] |
| Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation (Meilleur scénario, original ou adaptation) | Nominated | [23] | |||
| 2010 | São Paulo International Film Festival | Audience Award | Solutions locales pour un désordre global | Won | |
| 1993 | César Awards, France | Best Film (Meilleur film) | La crise | Nominated | [23] |
| Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation (Meilleur scénario, original ou adaptation) | Won | [23] | |||
| 1991 | BAFTA Awards | Best Film not in the English Language | Romuald et Juliette | Nominated | [24] |
| 1986 | César Awards, France | Best Film (Meilleur film) | 3 hommes et un couffin | Won | [25] [23] |
| Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation (Meilleur scénario, original ou adaptation) | Won | [23] | |||
| Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur) | Nominated | [23] | |||
| 1986 | Academy Awards (Oscar) | Academy Award for Best International Feature Film | 3 hommes et un couffin | [26] | |
| 1985 | National Academy of Cinema, France | Academy Award | 3 hommes et un couffin | Won | |
| 1982 | Venice Film Festival | Golden Lion | Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! | Nominated | |
| 1978 | Chicago International Film Festival | Gold Hugo (Best Feature) | Pourquoi pas! | Nominated |
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