Souad Amidou

Souad Amidou
Born	(1959-07-04) 4 July 1959 (age 65) Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1966–present
Spouse	Fabien Onteniente ​ ​ (m. 1987;div. 1991)​
Father	Amidou

Souad Amidou (born 4 July 1959) is a French actress.

Biography

She is the daughter of the actor Amidou. ^[1] Her career started working with her father on the short film Le thé à la menthe in 1963. Then she was chosen by Claude Lelouch to play the daughter of Anouk Aimée in Un homme et une femme in 1966.

When she was younger, she followed acting lessons from Anicette Fray. She followed her training at the "New Square Sylvia Monfort" then continued at Jean-Louis Martin-Barbaz, then with John Strasberg and Andreas Voutsinas.

From the early 1980s, she was acting in cinema and television. She became popular with her role in Le Grand frère from Francis Girod that got her a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress. She also worked under the direction of Gérald Oury, Jacques Deray, Ariel Zeitoun, Gérard Lauzier and Steven Spielberg.

On 23 December 1987 she married the director Fabien Onteniente; the couple broke up on 15 March 1991.^{[ citation needed ]}

She received the Legion of Honour decoration in 2008 ^[2]

In 2009, she directed the first short film Camille and Jamila , but she proved her talent as a filmmaker with her second film Rendez-vous avec Ninette , presented in many festivals.

Civic engagement

Souad Amidou is vegan, member of the sponsorship committee of the Institut citoyen du cinéma and member of the NGO Vegan Marathon.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1966	A Man and a Woman	Françoise Gauthier	Claude Lelouch
1981	Les filles de Grenoble	Liliane	Joël Le Moigné
1982	Le Grand Frère  [ fr ]	Zina Khelifa	Francis Girod	Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actress
1984	Julien Fontanes, magistrat	Mina	Daniel Moosmann	TV series (1 episode)
	P'tit Con	Salima	Gérard Lauzier
1985	Diesel	Kim	Robert Kramer
	Néo Polar	Dany	Daniel Moosmann (2) Marc Villard	TV series (1 episode)
1987	Lévy et Goliath  [ fr ]	Malika	Gérard Oury
	Le passager du Tassili		Sarah Maldoror	TV movie
	Maladie d'amour	Farida	Jacques Deray
	Vaines recherches	Soledad	Nicolas Ribowski	TV movie
1988	A Mala de Cartão	Linda	Michel Wyn	TV mini-series
	L'affaire Saint-Romans	Judith Saint-Romans	Michel Wyn (2)	TV mini-series
1989	Bobby et l'aspirateur		Fabien Onteniente	Short
1990	La batalla de los Tres Reyes		Souheil Ben-Barka Uchkun Nazarov
1991	Les hordes	Sarah	Jean-Claude Missiaen	TV mini-series
1992	Sun Child	Aicha	Driss Tahri	Short
	Neige dans le midi	Françoise Choukri	Michèle Ferrand-Lafaye	TV movie
1993	Le nombril du monde	Amina	Ariel Zeitoun
1993-95	Rocca	Inspector Fred Dubreuil	Paul Planchon Bernard Dumont	TV series (4 episodes)
1994	La danse du feu	Habiba M'Sika	Selma Baccar
1995	Tom est tout seul	The nurse	Fabien Onteniente (2)
1996	The Best Job in the World	Radia Ben Saïd	Gérard Lauzier (2)
	Et si l'on vivait ensemble	Marie	Nathalie Camidebach	Short
1997-99	Mission protection rapprochée	Diane Rousseau		TV series (6 episodes)
2001	Joséphine, ange gardien	Nizah	Jacob Berger	TV series (1 episode)
2002	3 zéros	Fabienne	Fabien Onteniente (3)
	And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen	Chambermaid	Claude Lelouch (2)
2005	L'homme qui voulait passer à la télé	Jenissa	Amar Arhab Fabrice Michelin	TV movie
	Permis d'aimer	Sama	Rachida Krim	TV movie
	Munich	Yussef's Wife	Steven Spielberg
2006	Commissaire Moulin	The Attorney	José Pinheiro	TV series (2 episodes)
2007	Adieu mères	Ruth	Mohamed Ismail
2008	Il faut sauver Saïd	The mother	Didier Grousset	TV movie
2010	La maison des Rocheville	Antonella	Jacques Otmezguine	TV mini-series (5 episodes)
2012	Le noir (te) vous va si bien	Maléké	Jacques Bral
2019	The Best Years of a Life	Françoise Gauthier	Claude Lelouch
2019	La Loi de...	Sabine Bernel		TV series

References

1. "Décès d'Amidou : L'acteur fétiche de Claude Lelouch est mort" (in French). Retrieved 31 August 2018.
2. Décret du 11 juillet 2008 publié au JO du 13 juin 2008.

External links

• Souad Amidou at IMDb