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Emmanuelle Devos


1964

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The actress Emmanuelle Devos was born as Emmanuelle Jeanne Devos-Loscul in Puteaux. Because her parents also were actors the young Emmanuelle was soon familiar with the world of performing arts.
 
After the school she dedicated to the theater and attended the acting school Cours Florent by the well-known actor Francis Huster.
 
Huster was enthusiastic about Emmanuelle Devos and supplied her with her first film role in "On a volé Charlie Spencer!" (86). 
 
It followed appearances in short movies like "La pension" (87) and "Embrasse-moi" (90) before she made her first feature movie with "La sentinelle" (92).
 
In the next years she acted regularly in cinema and TV productions, to these movies belong "A Clara" (94), "Les enfants du Faubourg" (94), "Les patriotes" (94) and finally "Comment je me suis disputé...(Ma vie sexuelle) (96) - which was her first leading role and her breakthrough at the same time. She became nominated for the César as most promising actress. It followed "La vérité est un vilain défaut" (97), "Artemisia" (97), "Les grands enfants" (98), "La finale" (99) and "Peut-être" (99).
 
Emmanuelle Devos could increase her degree of popularity and she got offered many grateful roles.
 
To her latest cinematical works belong "Tontaine et Tonton" (00), "Les cendres du paradis" (00), "Esther Kahn" (00), "Le temps perdu" (01), "Sur mes lèvres" (01) - for which she was awarded with the César in 2002 as best actress, "L'adversaire" (02) - César nomination as best support actress, "Rencontre avec le dragon" (03), "Rois et reine" (04) - César nomination as best actress, "La moustache" (05), "Gentille" (05), "Deux vies...plus une" (07), "Plus tard" (08), "Coco avant Chanel" (09), "A l'origine" (09) - awarded with the César as best support actress and "Complices" (09).
 
During her film career she often worked together with the director Arnaud Desplechin zusammen, Mathieu Amalric was her partner in several productions.
 

Other movies with  Emmanuelle Devos:
Dis-moi oui, dis-moi non (89) La vie des morts (91) Sauve-toi (93) Le garçon qui ne dormait pas (94) Serie "Les cinq dernières minutes: Saisie noire" (94) Oublie-moi (94) Consentement mutuel (94) Tendre piège (96) Anna Oz (96) Le déménagement (97) Un mois de réflexion (98) Roule ma poule (99) La tentation de l'innocence (99) La vie ne me fait pas peur (99) Lire la mort (00) Cours toujours (00) Vive nous! (00) Aie (00) Phobies (01) Varsovie-Paris (02) Au plus près du paradis (02) Petites coupures (03) Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (03) Bienvenue en Suisse (04) La femme de Gilles (04) De battre on coeur s'est arrêté (05) Le créneau (07) J'attends quelqu'un (07) Ceux qui restent (07) Tailleur pour dames (08) Un conte de Noël (08) Unspoken (08) Les beaux gosses (09) Les herbes folles (09) Bancs publics (09) Angelo, tyran de Padoue (09)

 
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