Lise Payette was a Canadian politician, journalist, writer, and businesswoman. She was a Parti Québécois (PQ) minister under the leadership of Premier René Lévesque and National Assembly of Quebec member for the riding of Dorion. Originally a journalist, Payette became a television host in the 1960s. She left politics in 1981 and returned to a successful career in television production and writing.
Mireille Darc was a French model and actress. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Merit. Alain Delon was her longtime co-star and companion.
Anny Duperey is a French actress, published photographer and best-selling author with a career spanning almost six decades as of 2021 and more than eighty cinema or television credits, around thirty theatre productions and 15 books. She is a five-time Molière Award for Best Actress nominee, was awarded two 7 d'Or and was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Yves Robert's Pardon Mon Affaire (1976). In 1977, she received the Prix Alice-Louis-Barthou awarded by the Académie Française. She is more commercially known for her leading role as Catherine Beaumont in the TF1 hit series Une famille formidable which ran for 15 seasons (1992-2018) regularly topping national primetime viewership numbers and also broadcast throughout French-speaking Europe peaking at 11 million viewers in France alone. Some of her most notable feature films include Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967); Roger Vadim's Spirits of the Dead (1968); André Hunebelle's The Return of Monte Cristo (1968); Alain Resnais' Stavisky (1974); Umberto Lenzi's From Hell to Victory (1979); Henri Verneuil's A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982), Claude Berri's Germinal (1993) or Alain Resnais' You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012). Her trapeze number for the Gala de l'Union des artistes with Francis Perrin as well as her 'red dress scene' with Jean Rochefort swaying her hips as a nod to Marilyn Monroe on Vladimir Cosma's original score both became cult in French popular culture. She was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur as part of the French Republic's 2012 New Year decoration class also honouring Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Maurice Herzog and Salma Hayek. She has been a supporter of the charity SOS Children's Villages since 1993.
Françoise Giroud, born Lea France Gourdji, was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician.
Aurélie Amblard is a French actress, who works both in France and in the UK. Straight after her master's degree in performing arts, she decided to create her own theatre company in the South of France, and soon started a career in film and television. She moved to Paris then London, where she is now based, and comes back to her first love, theatre, with "La Ronde", after having appeared in several short films and documentaries. She was present at the Whitechapel Gallery for the premiere of film "Programme", by the director Richard Squires, in February 2007.
Marie Dubois was a Parisian-born French actress.
Nunca pasa nada or Nothing Ever Happens is a 1963 Spanish-French drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem. Starring a mixed cast of French and Spanish actors it was shot both in Spanish and French. It was a commercial flop at the time of its release.
Odette Joyeux was a French actress, playwright and novelist.
Benoîte Groult was a French journalist, writer, and feminist activist.
Véronique Genest is a French actress. She is best known for her starring role as Commissaire Julie Lescaut in the French police drama series Julie Lescaut which ran from 1992–2013.
Djemila Benhabib is a Canadian journalist, writer, and politician who lives in Bruxelles, Belgium. She is of Algerian and Greek-Cypriot descent, and is known for her opposition to Islam.
Navarro is a drama series about a French commissioner that aired on TF1. It was on the air for 18 years.
Corinne Chaponnière is a Swiss-Canadian writer and journalist.
Christiane Collange was a French journalist and author.
Catherine Cessac is a French musicologist and music publisher.
Madeleine Cestari was a French Resistance fighter from France. A member of the Confrérie Notre-Dame network, she was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944.
Marion Sarraut was a French film and theatre director.
Henriette Kamia is a French Polynesian educator and disability activist. She is president of the Te Niu o Te Huma federation.
Estelle Touzet, born in 1981 in Châteauroux (Indre), is a French chef sommelier.
