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Miou-Miou


1950

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The actress Miou-Miou was born as Sylvette Héry in Paris.
After an acting education she worked among others at the experimental theater of Coluche before sihe made her film debut in 1971 with "La vie sentimentale de Georges Le Tueur" (71) and "La cavale" (71).

The contrast between her frail appearance and the impersonation of powerful women were fascinating and Miou-Miou soon became a demanded actress.
It followed "Elle court, elle court la banlieue" (73), "Les granges brulées" (73) and "Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob" (73) before she had her breakthrough with "Les valseuses - Die Ausgebufften" (74).

From now on followed leading roles in interesting productions in which her talent and her charisma showed to advantage. To these movies belong "F...comme Fairbanks" (76), "Jonas que aura 25 ans en l'an 2000" (76), "Dites-lui que je l'aime - Süsser Wahn" (77) and "La dérobade" (79) - for which she was awarded with a César.

Miou-Miou always chose her roles carefully therefore her activity wasn't reflected in the quantity of movies but in the quality.
She was convincing in movies like "La gueule du loup" (81), "Guy de Maupassant" (82), "Blanche et Marie" (84), "Tenue de soirée" (86), "La lectrice" (88), "Milou en mai" (90), "Germinal" (93), "Un indien dans la ville (94), "Le huitième jour" (96), "Agathe et le grand magasin" (01) and "L'après-midi de monsieur Andesmas" (04).
 

Other movies with Miou-Miou: 
Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (73) L'an 01 (73) Themroc (73) Tendre Dracula (74) Lily, aime-moi (75) Pas de problème! (75) Un genio, due compari, un pollo (75) Marcia trionfale (76) D'amour et d'eau fraîche (76) On aura tout vu (76) Al piacere di rivederla (76) Les routes du sud (78) L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile (79) Au revoir à lundi (79) La femme flic (80) Est-ce bien raisonnable? (81) Josepha (82) Coup de foudre (83) Attention! Une femme peut en cacher une autre (83) Canicule (84) Le vol du Sphinx (84) Une vie comme je veux (85) Les portes tournantes (88) L'argent (88) Un vrai bonheur (88) Netchaïev est de retour (91) La totale! (91) Le bal des casse-pieds (92) Tango (93) Montparnasse-Pondichéry (94) Une femme dans la tourmente (95) Une page d'amour (95) Court toujours: Joséphine et les gitans (95) Ma femme me quitte (96) Nettoyage à sec (97) Elles (97) Hors jeu (98) Tout va bien, on s'en va (00) Ambre a disparu (03) Mariages! (04) Folle embellie (04) 


 
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