Josiane Balasko is a French actress, writer, and director. She has been nominated seven times for César Awards, and won twice.
Thierry Lhermitte is a French actor, director, writer and producer, best known for his comedic roles. He was a founder of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc. The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema, and scored major successes with films such as Les Bronzés (1978), Les Bronzés font du ski (1979), Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982) and Un indien dans la ville (1994).
Michaël Benayoun, known professionally as Michaël Youn, is a French actor, singer, comedian and television personality.
Mac Guff is a French visual effects company based in Los Angeles, United States, Brussels, Belgium and Paris, France, where it is headquartered. Mac Guff specializes in the creation of computer graphics for commercials, music videos and feature films. 270 graphic designers, VFX supervisors and producers, computer engineers, and administrators are usually working on over 100 million files. In mid-2011, the company was split in two, and the animation department was acquired by Illumination Entertainment. The new company was named Illumination Mac Guff and has capital worth 3.2 million euro.
Indra Kuldasaar is a singer, best known in France.
Def2shoot is a motion picture and advertising visual effects company, founded in 2002 and established in Paris, France. The firm has gained popularity in the French visual effects and CGI industry.
Pierre-François Martin-Laval is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. PEF is well known in France for his acting performances in musical comedy but also in serious plays. He studied at the famous French school of acting Cours Florent. During his drama studies he met the friends with whom he formed the comedy team 'Les Robins des Bois' in 1996. Initially called The Royal Imperial Green Rabbit Company, they renamed themselves after their first significant success, a play entitled Robins des bois.
Jean-Pierre Darroussin is a French actor and filmmaker. He was born in Courbevoie, France.
Hippolyte Girardot is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He is the father of actress Ana Girardot.
Patrick Braoudé is a French actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.
Quasimodo d'El Paris is a 1999 French film that is a comedic adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo.
Vincent Elbaz is a French actor. He has appeared in many French television shows and films.
Le Splendid is a café-théâtre company founded in Paris by a collection of writers and actors in the 1970s: Christian Clavier, Michel Blanc, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Bruno Moynot and Claire Magnin. The members of the company went on to become some of the most significant actors and directors in French cinema from the 1980s onwards and have collectively won many César Awards.
Robert Lamoureux was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1951 and 1994. He starred in the film The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. He was married to the actress Magali Vendeuil.
Patrick Timsit is a French comedian, writer and film director. He has been nominated for four César Awards – three times as an actor and once as a writer. He is best known for the French comedy Un indien dans la ville.
Marquise is a 1997 French dramatic film directed by Véra Belmont, and starring Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, and Lambert Wilson. Written by Jean-François Josselin, Véra Belmont, Marcel Beaulieu and Gérard Mordillat, the film is about a dancer and actress, based on the historical actress Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla, who rises from obscurity to win the hearts of some of France's most prominent citizens, including Moliere, Racine, and King Louis XIV. She is helped in her career by a rotund comic, who falls in love with her, marries her, and brings her to Paris to launch her career. Despite her intimate involvement with other men, she keeps a special place in her heart reserved only for her unlikely spouse. Set in seventeenth century France, the film was shot on location in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, Italy, from September through December 1996.
Catherine Lobé is a French former nightclub manager, events organizer and socialite. She is the ex-wife of DJ and music producer David Guetta.
Essaï Altounian, sometimes credited as simply Essaï, is a French-Armenian singer, songwriter, keyboardist, music producer and actor.
Thierry Malet, is a French composer of film music. He is also the designer of the very first MIDI guitars and a new 3D spatialization system for feature film music.
