Victoria Bedos (born April 28, 1984 in Neuilly-sur-Seine [1] ) is a French author, screenplay writer, singer and actress.
She is the daughter of Guy Bedos and Joëlle Bercot, and the sister of Nicolas Bedos. She was named after Chaplin's daughter. [2]
Bedos began her career as a journalist on Télécinéobs (a supplement to Nouvel Observateur ), on Inrockuptibles , and for the woman's magazine Glamour . At the age of 23, Plon published her first book, Le Déni, where she explored the lies involved in romance. She was also a screenwriter for Confidences , broadcast on Canal+ in January 2007. [3]
She was co-author with Stanislas Carré de Malberg of the screenplay for the film La Famille Bélier . The film was produced by Eric Jehelmann, Philippe Rousselet and Stéphane Célérié, directed by Éric Lartigau. In 2014, while writing La Famille Bélier, she set up the duo Vicky Banjo with Olivier Urvoy de Closmadeuc. They write songs and sing together. She played Linda, the lead role in the mini-series Gym Couine written and directed by Sébastien Haddouk, and broadcast for two years on June via social networks and produced by Silex films. She is the face of the interactive advertising campaign for the new version of the magazine Glamour, directed by Noémie Saglio. In January 2015, she made the film Vicky Banjo (provisional title) which she co-wrote with Denis Imbert (co-director of the series Platane ) in which she played the leading role. It was directed by Denis Imbert and produced by LGM films with Chantal Lauby and François Berléand playing her parents and Jonathan Cohen as her brother. In 2021, La Famille Bélier is adapted in english and directed by Sian Heder: CODA , with Emilia Jones and Eugenio Derbez.
Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a French singer, model and actress. Paradis became a star at the age of 14 with the international success of her single "Joe le taxi" (1987). At age 18, she was awarded France's highest honours as both a singer and an actress with the Prix Romy Schneider and the César Award for Most Promising Actress for Jean-Claude Brisseau's Noce Blanche, as well as the Victoires de la Musique for Best Female Singer for her album Variations sur le même t'aime. Her most notable films also include Élisa (1995) alongside Gérard Depardieu, Witch Way Love (1997) opposite Jean Reno, Une chance sur deux (1998) co-starring with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, Girl on the Bridge (1999), Heartbreaker (2010) and Café de Flore (2011). Her tribute to Jeanne Moreau at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival during which they sang in duet "Le Tourbillon" became notable in French popular culture. In 2022, she was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Actress for her performance in the play Maman.
The Deauville American Film Festival is a yearly film festival devoted to American cinema, which has taken place since 1975 in Deauville, France.
Guy Bedos was a French screenwriter, stand-up comedian and actor. He was a French man born in Algeria, a former French department. He is identified as a Pied-Noir, name given to the French people by the Algerians in assimilation with the French sailers who were navigating with steam boat. As they were walking barefoot on coal their foot were black. At Music-Hall, he interpreted various sketches of authors like him. He developed a regularly updated political satire. This satire affected mostly right-wing politicians, his "friends" of the left also suffer from his cutting reflections.
I Do or Rent a Wife, is a 2006 French romantic comedy film directed by Éric Lartigau, based on an original idea by Alain Chabat. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat and Bernadette Lafont. It is Chabat and Gainsbourg's third collaboration, after Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (2004) and The Science of Sleep (2006). This film was officially remade into an Indian Telugu language film Manmadhudu 2 released in August 2019.
Catherine Jacob is a French film and theatrical actress who has won a César Award for her role in Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988), and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Tatie Danielle (1990), Merci la vie (1991) and Neuf mois (1994). She has been two-time president of the Lumières Award. She is known for her voice and her charisma.
Éliette Abécassis is a French writer of Moroccan-Jewish descent. She is a professor of philosophy at the University of Caen Normandy.
Marina Sylvie Foïs is a French actress.
The Globes de Cristal Awards is a set of awards bestowed by members of the French Press Association recognizing excellence in home art and culture. The annual formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented happens each February.
La Famille Bélier is a 2014 French-Belgian coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Éric Lartigau. The film received six nominations at the 40th César Awards, winning Most Promising Actress for Louane Emera. It won a Magritte Award in the category of Best Foreign Film.
"Je vole" is a 1978 song by French singer Michel Sardou and the title track of the same titled album Je vole by Sardou. The B-side of the single was "8 jours à El Paso". The lyrics of "je vole" were co-written by Michel Sardou and Pierre Billon and the music was composed by Sardou himself. The song was a big commercial success reaching number 3 in France selling approximately 500,000 copies.
Anne Peichert, known by her stage name Louane Emera or simply Louane, is a French singer and actress.
Thomas Bidegain is a French screenwriter, producer and film director. He is noted for his collaborations with the director Jacques Audiard. He received the César Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2010 for A Prophet and Best Adaptation in 2013 for Rust and Bone; both awards were shared with Audiard. Bidegain's directorial debut The Cowboys premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Amanda Queffélec-Maruani, known professionally as Amanda Sthers, is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.
Marie-Armelle Deguy is a French actress, the daughter of poet and essayist Michel Deguy.
Éric Ollivier, pseudonym for Yves Duparc, was a French writer, screenwriter and journalist, laureate of several French literary awards.
Doria Tillier is a French actress.
Bélier is the French word for a ram. It may also refer to:
Adèle Van Reeth is a French philosopher, radio producer and columnist.
Annette Wieviorka is a French historian. She is a specialist in the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish people in the 20th century since the 1992 publication of her thesis, Deportation and genocide between memory and forgetting, defended in 1991 at the Paris Nanterre University.
Sara Mortensen is a French actress.