Frédéric Mitterrand

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1947-08-21

Deathday 2024-03-21 (76 years old)

Place of Birth Paris, France

Frédéric Mitterrand

Biography

Frédéric Mitterrand (born 21 August 1947) is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. Throughout his career, he has been an actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director. Born in Paris, he is the nephew of François Mitterrand, who was the president of France from 1981 to 1995, and the son of engineer Robert Mitterrand (1915–2002) and Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, the co-founder of "La Cagoule". He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris and studied history and geography at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and political science at Sciences Po. He taught economics, history and geography at EABJM from 1968 to 1971. In 1978, he was a film critic at J'informe. From 1971 to 1986, he ran several art film cinemas in Paris (Olympic Palace, Entrepôt and Olympic-Entrepôt). He also had roles in a number of films, and in the 1980s was active as a producer and director in TV productions. In June 2008, Mitterrand was appointed as the director of the French Academy in Rome by President Nicolas Sarkozy. A year later, on 23 June 2009, Mitterrand was appointed to the French government as the Minister of Culture and Communications until May 2012. Mitterrand, who is openly bisexual, writes a monthly column for Têtu. Mitterrand's autobiographical novel The Bad Life (French: La mauvaise vie) was a best seller in 2005. In the book he details his "delight" whilst visiting the male brothels of Bangkok, and writes, "I got into the habit of paying for boys ... The profusion of young, very attractive and immediately available boys put me in a state of desire I no longer needed to restrain or hide." At the time of its release Mitterrand was applauded for his honesty, but he has had to defend his writings after he publicly defended Roman Polanski when Polanski was detained in Switzerland on an American request for extradition for raping a thirteen-year-old girl. On 5 October 2009, Marine Le Pen of the French National Front Party quoted sections of the book on French television, accusing him of having sex with underage boys and engaging in "sex tourism", demanding that Mitterrand resign his position as culture minister. Amongst others he was also criticised by the Socialist Party spokesman Benoît Hamon, who stated: "As a minister of culture he has drawn attention to himself by defending a film maker and he has written a book where he said he took advantage of sexual tourism. To say the least, I find it shocking." On the other hand, some conservatives supported Mitterrand, and a close aide to Nicolas Sarkozy said the French President backed his Culture Minister, describing the controversy around him as "pathetic". ... Source: Article "Frédéric Mitterrand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Actor

2017
Christian Dior, la France

as Narrator (voice)

2015
Sans rancune et sans retenue

as Himself - host/interviewer

2014
2012
28 minutes

as Self

2007
Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau...

as Self (archive footage)

2006
Salut les Terriens !

as Self (guest)

2003
The Car Keys

as L'animateur de la cérémonie cannoise (voice)

2001
Bécassine - Le Trésor Viking

as Le présentateur

2001
Amélie

as Frédéric Mitterrand (voice)

1998
Let There Be Light!

as Dieu l'automobiliste

1998
Fairouz

as (Voice)

1998
1990
Stars 90

as self

1987
Dorothée Show

as Réalisateur

1987
Jeux d'artifices

as The TV presenter

1984
Cinématon XXX

as N°291

1982
Love Letters in Somalia

as Narrator (uncredited)

1982
1981
Merry-Go-Round

as Le conseil

1979
Roberte

as L'employé de banque

1975
Apostrophes

as Self

1971
Samedi soir

as Self

1960
Fortunate

as Maurice Valcourt

Producer

1987
Broken April

as Producer

1976

Creator

Crew

2001
Amélie

as Thanks