Agnès Jaoui

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1964-10-19 (60 years old)

Place of Birth Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Also Known As 아네스 자우이

Agnès Jaoui

Biography

Agnès Jaoui (born 19 October 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer. Jaoui has won six César Awards, three Lumières Awards, and a Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She has received numerous other awards and nominations, including a nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Jaoui was born in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, and is of Tunisian Jewish descent. She is the daughter of Hubert Jaoui and Gyza Jaoui, who are both writers. They moved to Paris when she was 8 years old. She started theatre when she was in high school at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. She entered the Cours Florent when she was 15. Patrice Chéreau, director of the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre where she began attending drama classes in 1984, gave her a role in the film Hôtel de France in 1987. That same year, she appeared in Harold Pinter's L'anniversaire with Jean-Pierre Bacri, who later became a faithful colleague and companion. Jaoui and Bacri wrote the play Cuisine et dépendances, which was adapted onscreen in 1992 by Philippe Muyl. In 1993, director Alain Resnais asked them to write an adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's 8-part play Intimate Exchanges, which became the 2-part film Smoking/No Smoking. This ironic diptych about free will and destiny won the César Award for Best Writing in 1994. In 1996, they came to know greater success with Cédric Klapisch's adaptation of their play Family Resemblances (Un air de famille), which showed their ability to observe and depict everyday life, and to criticize the social norms through bitter and corrosive humor. Once again, they won the César Award for Best Writing in 1997 and the same year collaborated again with Resnais on Same Old Song (On connaît la chanson), which they wrote but also interpreted: together, they won their third César Award for Best Writing, and Jaoui her first César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Jaoui directed her first feature film, The Taste of Others (Le Goût des autres, 2000, written with Bacri), which questions social-cultural identities. The film was a huge success in France and attracted 4 million spectators. It also won 4 César Awards in 2001 including Best Film and Best Writing, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2004, Jaoui's second film as a director, Look at Me (Comme une image), co-written with Bacri, was selected for the Cannes Festival and won the prize for Best Screenplay. She starred in the last Richard Dembo's film, La maison de Nina (2005) and then focused on music and released her album of Latin songs, Canta (2006). She returned to cinema in 2008 with Let's Talk About the Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie), with French humorist Jamel Debbouze in a different role from what he was used to. In 2012, Jaoui directed her latest film to date, Under the Rainbow (Au bout du conte), also co-written with Bacri. She revisits several fairy tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood. It received acclaim from critics and audiences for originality and humor in the writing and dialogue. ... Source: Article "Agnès Jaoui" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Actor

Harmonie

as Magda

2024
This Life of Mine

as Barberie Bichette

2024
2024
2024
2023
Room 999

as Self

2023
A Wonderful Girl

as Claire Bloch

2023
Wow!

as Josépha

2023
Life Lessons

as Noémie Capdenac

2023
2023
Beau geste

as Self

2022
Yuku and the Himalayan Flower

as La Renarde (voice)

2022
Becoming Marilyn

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2022
Alain Resnais, l'audacieux

as Self - Cinéaste

2022
Singing Jailbirds

as Catherine

2022
The Companions

as Hélène

2022
Bacri, comme un air de famille

as Self (archive footage)

2022
2021
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021
En thérapie

as Rebecca

2018
Best Intentions

as Isabelle

2018
Place publique

as Hélène

2017
I Got Life!

as Aurore Tabort

2016
Quotidien

as Self - Guest

2015
I'm All Yours

as Simone Belkacem

2015
The Sweet Escape

as Laëtitia

2015
2013
2013
Under the Rainbow

as Marianne

2012
The Dandelions

as Colette Gladstein

2009
Sous un coin de ciel bleu

as Princess (voice)

2008
Let It Rain

as Agathe Villanova

2005
Nina's House

as Nina

2004
Look at Me

as Sylvia Millet

2004
The Role of Her Life

as Elisabeth Becker

2002
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

as Marie Collins Brown

2001
Burger Quiz

as Self

2000
2000
1999
On the Run

as Kirstin

1998
1997
The Cousin

as Claudine Delvaux

1997
Same Old Song

as Camille Lalande

1997
1996
Family Resemblances

as Betty Ménard

1993
1991
1987
Women in Love

as Agathe

1987
Hôtel de France

as Mme Bouguereau

1985
Télématin

as Self

1983
The Hawk

as Sandra

1975
Cinéma 16

as Agathe

Writer

2018
Place publique

as Writer

2013
Under the Rainbow

as Screenplay

2008
Let It Rain

as Screenplay

2004
Look at Me

as Screenplay

2000
The Taste of Others

as Screenplay

1997
Same Old Song

as Screenplay

1996
Family Resemblances

as Theatre Play

1996
1993
1993

Director

2021
En thérapie

as Director

2018
Place publique

as Director

2013
Under the Rainbow

as Director

2008
Let It Rain

as Director

2004
Look at Me

as Director

2000