| My Wife is an Actress | |
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| Film poster | |
| Directed by | Yvan Attal |
| Written by | Yvan Attal |
| Produced by | Claude Berri |
| Starring | Yvan Attal Charlotte Gainsbourg Terence Stamp |
| Cinematography | Rémy Chevrin |
| Edited by | Jennifer Augé |
| Music by | Brad Mehldau |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Pathé |
Release dates |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Languages | French English |
| Budget | $6.4 million [1] |
| Box office | $5.2 million [2] |
My Wife is an Actress (French : Ma femme est une actrice) is a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama film starring Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film. The film stars Terence Stamp among others. This film is also highly biographic, as Yvan and Charlotte are a real-life couple since 1991, and have three children. According to Yvan, the idea and a part of the plot originates from real-life events. [3]
The film was released on 14 November 2001 in France on 238 screens and opened at number one with a gross of 7 million Francs ($1 million) for the week. [4] It went on to gross $3.4 million in France. [5] It opened on 12 July 2002 in 7 theatres in the United States and grossed $49,204 in the opening weekend and went on to gross $1,121,233. It grossed $5,169,438 worldwide. [5]