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- France Nuyen was born on 31 July 1939 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress, known for Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), The Joy Luck Club (1993) and South Pacific (1958). She was previously married to Robert Culp and Dr. Thomas Gaspar Morell.
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Louis Jourdan was born Louis Robert Gendre in Marseille, France to Yvonne (née Jourdan) and hotel owner Henry Gendre. He was educated in France, Britain, and Turkey. He trained as an actor with René Simon at the École Dramatique. He debuted on screen in 1939, going on to play cultivated, polished, dashing lead roles in a number of French romantic comedies and dramas.
After his father, the manager of the Cannes Grand Hôtel, was arrested by the Gestapo during World War II, Louis and his two brothers (Pierre Jourdan and Robert Gendre, both of whom became film directors) joined the French underground; his film career came to a halt when he refused to act in Nazi propaganda films.
In 1948, David O. Selznick invited him to Hollywood to appear in The Paradine Case (1947); he remained in the USA and went on to star in a number of Hollywood films. After 1953, he appeared in international productions and, in 1958, appeared in Gigi (1958), his best-known film by American audiences. He also made numerous appearances on American television.
Jourdan died at his home in Beverly Hills, California in 2015, at age 93.- Actress
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French/US actress, Roxane Mesquida grew up in Le Pradet, a little town in the South of France. At the age of 11, while walking with her mother, writer Francoise Mesquida, she was spotted by director Manuel Pradal who cast her in Mary from the Bay of Angels (Marie Baie de Anges). In 1998, she played opposite Isabelle Huppert in Benoit Jacquot's The School of Flesh (L'ecole de la Chair) which was presented at that year's Cannes Film Festival. A few years later, she crossed paths with the renowned and provocative director Catherine Breillat. Not only did the director bring Roxane to international attention, she taught the actress her craft. In 2001, their first film Fat Girl (A ma soeur!) was presented at festivals around the world including Berlin and Toronto. The following year, the director and her actress collaborated on Sex is a Comedy which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival, 2002. They worked together again on The Last Mistress (Une vieille maitresse) with Asia Argento. The film was presented in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In 2006, after making Sheitan with Vincent Cassel directed by Kim Chapiron, Mesquida moved to the United States. She spent several months in New York attending The Barrow Group, a prestigious non-profit Off-Broadway Theatre Company and acting School before settling in Los Angeles. In 2010, two of her films were presented at Cannes: Kaboom by independent filmmaker Gregg Araki and Rubber by Quentin Dupieux a.k.a Mr. Oizo (a corruption of the French word for "bird"). She also starred three music videos: Buck 65's "Paper Airplane", Grudd Rhys's "Shark Ridden Waters" and Marilyn Manson's "No Reflection" in 2012. 2011 was a very busy year for Mesquida who played Beatrice, the sister of Louis Grimaldi in TV series Gossip Girl and appeared in the features The Most Fun You Can Have Dying by Kirstin Marcon, Kiss of the Damned by Alexandra Cassavetes (daughter of John Cassavetes) and Homesick by young independent filmmaker Frederic Da. She also appeared in the art video for Opening Ceremony.
When she was 14, Mesquida was spotted by Elite Model Management and she has been working as a model ever since. She is signed by worldwide modeling agency IMG Modelssince 2008.- Actor
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Peter Paul Wyngarde was born at the home of an aunt in Marseille, Southern France, and is the son of an English father and French mother. Owing to his father's work as a member of the British Diplomatic Service, Peter spent much of his early childhood moving from one country to another, and was educated in a number of different schools.
One city which left a lasting impression on him was Shanghai, where he had been temporarily left in the care of a Swiss family whilst his father was away in India on business. The year was 1941, and amid a mass of turmoil and confusion, news broke that the Japanese had captured the city, and before long, Peter and his surrogate family found themselves in Lunghua concentration camp.
Confined in these desperately brutal conditions for four years, Peter struggled to prevent his family and friends from dying at the hands of the cruel and barbaric soldiers who governed the camp, and on one occasion while running errands between accommodation huts, he was discovered and punished by having both his feet broken with a rifle butt, and then put into solitary confinement for two weeks.
During better times however, the young Mr. Wyngarde worked in the camp laundry and gardens, and began to write and appear in plays staged by, and for, his fellow inmates, making his acting debut in his own production of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. When the camp was finally liberated in 1945 Peter, who was then suffering from malnutrition, beriberi and malaria, was taken to a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains where he remained for the next two years.
After completing his education in Switzerland, France and England, Peter reluctantly honored his parents' wishes, and entered university, where he began studying law, but soon dropped the idea in favor of a career in advertising. After a brief spell with an agency in London, he walked into an audition, read the part, and was cast as the understudy for the lead in a play in Brighton.
His first role on the London stage, however, was with the Nottingham Repertory Company at the Embassy Theatre as Cassio in Othello. From there, he moved to the world famous Old Vic in Bristol, where he not only took the lead role in such classics as Cyrano de Bergerac and Taming of the Shrew, but also tried his hand at directing, most notably with Long Day's Journey Into Night.
In 1956, Peter was invited over to the United States to take a screen test for the part of Pausanius in Robert Rosen's epic feature film, Alexander the Great opposite Richard Burton and Fredric March, but after almost a year's work on location in Spain, he watched in horror as his role was cut almost out of existence.
Disillusioned with Hollywood, Peter returned to his first love - the British stage, where he took the role of Yang Sun, a Chinese fighter pilot, in Bertold Brecht's, The Good Woman of Setzuan, at the Royal Court Theatre in London's West End. It was here that he first made the acquaintance of the Oliviers - Laurence and his wife, Vivien Leigh, the latter of whom he later played opposite in the critically acclaimed Duel of Angels.
Following the plays hugely successful run at the Apollo Theatre in London in 1958 Ms Leigh, who had since become a close friend of Peter's, begged her leading man to join her in the New York production of the play. Although reluctant at first, Peter was at last persuaded to reprise his role as Count Marcellus, and he made his Broadway debut at the Helen Hayes Theatre in 1959, taking the coveted award for Best Actor in a Foreign Play.
On his triumphant return to Britain in 1960, he was almost immediately cast as the enigmatic Peter the Painter in Monty Barman's production of The Siege of Sidney Street - a film which was based on the true story of the British Governments legendary battle with a notorious gang of Slavonic anarchist, whose reputation throughout Europe for robbery and murder lead to one of the bloodiest confrontations in British criminal history.
Between numerous starring roles in television productions such as Independent Televisions popular Armchair Theatre and Play of the Week, Peter made two more big screen appearances - both Albert Fennell productions.
The first, in 1961, was The Innocents - a feature-length adaptation of the Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw, which was followed in 1962 by the classic supernatural thriller, Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn) which was once again based on a novel - this time Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife.
Between July of 1960 and March of 1969, Peter appeared in no less than thirty television plays, and guest starred in such classic series as The Avengers, I Love Lucy, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions and The Prisoner. In 1969, Peter was cast in what was undoubtedly his most famous role as the legendary author-cum-investigator, Jason King, in the ITC action series, Department S, and soon became the idol of thousands of women the world over. So overwhelming was his effect on television viewers that in 1971, a brand new series - Jason King - was devised, which allowed the handsome novelist to go adventuring without restriction.
Following the cancellation of the series at the end of 1972, Peter decided to return to the theatre, and after being greeted at Melbourne Airport by more than 30,000 screaming fans, he took the city by storm in the world premiere of Butley before packed houses every night. Once back in London, Peter took the lead role in Charles Dyers Mother Adam at the Hampstead Theatre, and then went on to tour Britain in the lead role of the King in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I opposite Sally Ann Howes. The following year, he once again took up the mantle of actor/director with Present Laughter, stopping off along the way to host the 1974 Miss Television Contest.
In 1975, Peter headed out to Austria to work at the English Theatre in Vienna, to both act in and direct productions of The Merchant of Venice and Big Toys, before returning to the big screen in an Austrian film (Himmel, Scheich Und Wolkenbrunch) in the role of a latter-day Rudolph Valentino. The following year, he returned to the British stage in the Lawrence Parnes production of Anastasia, and then on to the big screen courtesy of Dino De Laurentiis' lavish 1980s sci-fi blockbuster, Flash Gordon, in which he was cast in the role of General Klytus. It was then back to the stage for a nine-months' tour of South Africa in Deathtrap.
In 1984, after an absence of almost 12 years, Peter returned to the small screen with a rare television appearance in the four-part Doctor Who installment, Planet of Fire, which was followed in short succession by the Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense story, And The Wall Came Tumbling Down, and a memorable guest-starring role in Granada Television's Bulman.
Having been cast as the somewhat unsavory character of Sir Robert Knights in the stylish, yet overtly violent British thriller, Tank Malling in 1989 Peter, who scarcely ever agrees to be interviewed, consented to appear on SKY TV's Jameson Show, plus a hearing on Channel 4s Right To Reply and the BBC's daytime magazine, Pebble Mill. More recently, Peter appeared in 1994 in Granada Televisions popular Sherlock Holmes series opposite Jeremy Brett, playing the newspaper gossip-columnist, Langdale Pike, in The Three Gables.
The long-overdue release of both Department S and Jason King on video in 1993 helped rekindle huge interest in the debonair Mr Wyngarde, with repeats of the series being shown on satellite and cable channels, and public pressure resulting in the re-release of his infamous 1970 album on CD.
In recent years, Peter has made numerous TV appearances, which include Astleys Way, Dee Time, 100 Greatest TV Characters, Don't Knock Yourself Out and narrated the acclaimed Timeshift documentary, The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes in 2014.
Peter remains one of the most popular British actors of the past 50 years, with a thriving fan club and devoted worldwide following. His appearances at TV and Sci-Fi conventions have drawn thousands of attendees, eager to meet him and to shake the hand of a true acting legend.- Julia Dietze was born on 9 January 1981 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress, known for Iron Sky (2012), Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019) and 1 1/2 Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde (2008).
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Eric Cantona is most known for his skill on the soccer field. Starring at Old Trafford, Manchester United's homeground, Cantona got the nickname "The King". The controversial striker has been praised as the one who brought back the trophies to one of the world's most famous soccer clubs. Cantona is well-known for being banned from playing soccer for 8 months after kicking a fan during a match. His career at Old Trafford was like a marriage: filled with passion, and turbulent. And just as shocking as his arrival, was his departure. Out of the blue, Man Utd called for a press conferance during the summer of 1997 announcing Cantona's retirement. He felt it was time to concentrate on acting and painting. The controversial Frenchman is a gifted individual, who always will go his own ways.- Actor
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The apocryphal biography of Fernand Contandin tells the invention of his artistic name Fernandel by his sister-in-law ("Voici le Fernand d'elles"). At the beginning of the thirties he became a typical actor of the comedy genre: popular, common, likable and with a concealed grain of drama. Marc Allégret was the director of his first successful film La meilleure bobonne (1931). He tried to work as director twice during World War II but was unsuccessful.- Stéphane Caillard was born on 1 October 1988 in Marseille, France. She is an actress, known for The Take (2016), Lucienne mange une auto (2019) and Les Lyonnais (2011).
- Jean Sorel was born on 25 September 1934 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is an actor, known for The Day of the Jackal (1973), Belle de Jour (1967) and Sandra (1965). He has been married to Patricia Balme since 2018. He was previously married to Anna Maria Ferrero.
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Géraldine Pailhas was born on 8 January 1971 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress, known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Young & Beautiful (2013) and La neige et le feu (1991). She is married to Christopher Thompson. They have two children.- Actress
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Diminutive, fiery-tempered Simone Simon was born in France, but spent much of her early childhood in Madagascar, where her father managed a graphite mine. Her schooling was somewhat unsettled, her family moving from city to city (Berlin, Budapest, Turin) before finally establishing themselves in Paris in 1930. Simone started as a dress designer, fashion model and occasional performer in stage musicals. She eventually met the director Marc Allégret, who took her under his wing. Her film debut was in 1931 and she had her first major hit as Jean Gabin's co-star in La Bête Humaine (1938), directed by Jean Renoir.
There were two halves to Simone's history in Hollywood. In 1936, Darryl F. Zanuck signed her to a contract at 20th Century Fox on the strength of a picture she had made two years earlier, Allegret's Ladies Lake (1934). She was launched with an expensive publicity campaign which accentuated her continental allure, particularly, her 'sexy pout'. During her tenure, problems surfaced regarding her command of English and also her limited singing skills. Dissatisfied with the roles she was given, Simone returned to France and 'La Bete Humaine'. She made a second attempt at Hollywood, acting in William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) as Belle, the devil's handmaiden. The New York Times review of October 17 considered her 'completely out of key'. Simone's best work, however, was to come in the shape of the cult horror classic Cat People (1942). Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur used her triangular-faced feline qualities to best effect in the story of a girl who obsesses about an ancient Balkan curse turning her into a panther. The film was stylish and subtle, creating imagined rather than actual menace. Simone's performance was commensurate with perfectly studied cat-like mannerisms. During the production of 'Cat People', Simone was under FBI surveillance because of her relationship with MI5 spy Dusko Popov. She made two further, less successful, films at RKO, then returned to France for good. Simone made several films there and worked on the stage. In spite of many affairs and relationships, she never married.- Director
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Cédric Jimenez (born 26 June 1976) is a French film producer, film director and screenwriter. He is married to the screenwriter and journalist Audrey Diwan, with whom he has two children.
The film career of Cédric Jimenez starts through documentary means. In 2003, back in France after a long stay in New York, he puts his signature on 'Who's The Boss (Boss Of Scandalz Strategyz)', a documentary that follows the famous hip-hop music label which saw the group NTM hatch. He participated some years later to writing 'Scorpion' (signed Julien Seri), on the resurrection of a fallen Thai boxer, played by Clovis Cornillac, and continues to work with the actor in a science fiction film entitled 'Eden Log'.
It was only in 2012 that truly Cédric Jimenez started directing. He co-signs with Arnaud Duprey 'Aux yeux de tous', a feature film as original and ambitious, dipping a couple of terrorists (Mélanie Doutey and Olivier Barthelemy) in turmoil since a hacker hunted by keypad virtuoso. The film picks up an appointment at the International Thriller Film Festival of Beaune.
He takes his camera two years later (in 2014) to oppose Gilles Lellouche to Jean Dujardin in 'The Connection', crime fiction set in Marseille, amid international heroin trafficking, and inspired by the murder of Judge Pierre Michel. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.- Actor
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Christian Marquand was born on 15 March 1927 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor and director, known for Apocalypse Now (1979), The Longest Day (1962) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). He was married to Tina Aumont. He died on 22 November 2000 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.- Actress
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Lara Lamberti was born on 21 March 1967 in Marseille, France. She is an actress and producer, known for Red Sonja (1985), Aenigma (1987) and Mystica.- Producer
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Robert Guédiguian was born on 3 December 1953 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is a producer and writer, known for Marius and Jeannette (1997), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011) and La ville est tranquille (2000). He has been married to Ariane Ascaride since 1975.- Actress
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International award-winning actress, singer and writer, Melissa Mars received major notice after appearing alongside John Travolta in From Paris with Love (2010) produced by Luc Besson - La Femme Nikita (1990), Lucy (2014)-, winning a best supporting actress award for her performance in The Cabining (2014), multiple best actress awards for her "heartfelt, spectacular and vulnerable" performance in the drama Polly (2019) and having her song "Beautiful" be included in Coca-Cola's "52 Songs of Happiness" worldwide music compilation.
A singer by accident...
Mars started acting at the age of 13, but she is well-known in France for her pop music career. She became a singer by accident: after being called to personally meet the renowned French Filmmaker André Téchiné to discuss his next project (he had launched Juliette Binoche's career among others), the absence of chemistry with the director killed all Mars' dreams, but led to her encounter with a renowned French songwriter and producer. After a few months of doubts and fears to accept life's calling, she recorded demo songs, signed with Polydor-Universal Music, whom she released 3 solo albums with, toured and was praised in the press and described as "singular, fairy and rock n'fun" (W magazine, Elle, Madame Figaro, Le Monde...). She has been featured on many duets, including "1980", a hit that reached #5 in the charts. She is also well known for her leading role in the smash hit musical Mozart L'Opéra Rock (2010) that sold more than 1,500,000 tickets, directed by Olivier Dahan - La Vie En Rose (2007)-, and for which she received with the lead cast a best ensemble NRJ award and a diamond record.
Multi-talented & Self-taught
Mars is a multi-talented, self-taught artist, when she's not on set or in the studio, Melissa dedicates her time to her other passions: photography, graphic design, filmmaking and screenwriting. She started writing and filming at the age of 13 anything and everything that caught her eye and imagination until 2007, when she officially directed her first short film. She was the creative director for her own music videos: Melissa Mars: Love Machine (2007), Army of Love (2008)... produced by Universal Music. Mars has also held an exhibition in Paris which was a series of photographs called Children of China to promote children's rights, the exhibition was praised in both Elle magazine and Metro Daily.
Currently settled in New-York, Mars travels between Los Angeles and Paris, balancing her worlds of music and film. She can recently be seen on Amazon Prime, in the original comedy Puzzled (2019) which features "Hors La Loi" an original song of hers in the opening credits. As well as the horror thriller Texas Zombie Wars: Titan Base (2019), the multi-awarded science fiction feature 2047: Virtual Revolution (2016). Mars had her American TV debut on Lifetime in Deadly Delusion (2017), a thriller alongside Haylie Duff - Napoleon Dynamite (2004)- and Teri Polo -Meet the Parents (2000)... She is rewriting her first feature film, a romantic comedy, in addition to a separate high concept dystopian story she's been developing since the end of 2018 that unexpectedly and strangely reminds of our current world in 2020...- A stunning blonde leading lady of the late sixties, Marie-France Boyer became best known internationally for her role as the Burgundian heiress Isabelle de Croye in the Franco-German swashbuckling television series Quentin Durward (1971), based on Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel. Prior to that, she was noted for her key role in Agnès Varda's award-winning New Wave drama Happiness (1965) and leads in the films Une fille nommée Amour (1969) and Piège blond (1970).
In 1978, Marie-France quit acting and reinvented herself as an author of non-fiction books dealing with French history ("The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette") and culture ("Matisse at Villa Le Reve", "Village Voices: French Country Life", "The French Café"). She was formerly married to producer/director Rémy Grumbach. Marie-France had two children with her second husband, Algerian-born Jean Zorbibe, chairman and CEO from 1965 to 1998 of the French luxury leather goods company Lancel. - Michèle Perello was born on 28 December 1942 in Marseille, France. She was an actress. She died on 10 January 2004 in Paris, France.
- Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French former professional football player and current manager of Real Madrid. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Zidane was an elite play-maker, renowned for his elegance, vision, ball control and technique, and played as an attacking midfielder for Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus and Real Madrid. At club level, Zidane won two Serie A league titles with Juventus, before he moved to Real Madrid for a world record fee of EUR77.5 million in 2001, which remained unmatched for the next eight years. In Spain, Zidane won the La Liga title and the UEFA Champions League, with his left-foot volleyed winner in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final considered to be one of the greatest goals in the competition's history. Zidane also won an Intercontinental Cup and a UEFA Super Cup with both teams.
Capped 108 times by France, Zidane won the 1998 FIFA World Cup, scoring twice in the final and being named to the All-Star Team, while also winning UEFA Euro 2000, being named Player of the Tournament. The World Cup triumph made him a national hero in France, and he received the Légion d'honneur in 1998. He also received the Golden Ball for player of the tournament at the 2006 World Cup, despite his infamous sending off in the final against Italy for headbutting Marco Materazzi in the chest. He retired as the fourth-most capped player in France history.
Zidane received many individual accolades as a player, including being named the FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003, and winning the 1998 Ballon d'Or. He was Ligue 1 Player of the Year in 1996, Serie A Footballer of the Year in 2001, and La Liga Best Foreign Player in 2002. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the world's greatest living players compiled by Pelé, and in the same year was named the best European footballer of the past 50 years in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll. Zidane is one of eight players to have won the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Champions League and the Ballon d'Or, and was the ambassador for Qatar's successful bid to stage the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the first Arab country to host the tournament.
After retiring as a player, Zidane transitioned into coaching, and began as his head coaching career at Real Madrid Castilla. He remained in the position for two years before taking the helm of the first team in January 2016. In his two and a half seasons with Madrid, Zidane won the UEFA Champions League an unprecedented three times consecutively, a La Liga title, a Supercopa de Espana, and the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup twice each. His success saw him named Best FIFA Men's Coach in 2017, but he resigned in May 2018. Following poor results by Real Madrid in the subsequent months, Zidane returned to the club as manager in March 2019. - Leading French actress, born Catherine Vitale in Marseille, first trained as a dancer at fourteen. She subsequently attended the Institut cinématographique de Marseille and began on stage from 1956. She has acted in plays by Molière, Achard, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, Anouilh, Shaw and Guitry. With Marie-France Boyer she co-founded the Théâtre du quotidien. Catherine Rouvel is best known on the screen for her roles in Jean Renoir's Picnic on the Grass (1959), Marcel Carné's Les assassins de l'ordre (1971), Jacques Deray's classic gangster film Borsalino (1970) and Jean-Jacques Annaud's Black and White in Color (1976).
- Yvette Duguay was born on 24 June 1932 in Marseille, France. She was an actress, known for The Cimarron Kid (1952), The Shanghai Story (1954) and The Great Caruso (1951). She was married to Robert C. Anderson, John F. Sheeley and Hal Paiss. She died on 14 October 1986 in Marina del Rey, California, USA.
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Joana Preiss was born on 22 May 1972 in Marseille, France. She is an actress and director, known for Paris, I Love You (2006), Raw (2016) and Dans Paris (2006).- Actress
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Ariane Ascaride was born on 10 October 1954 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress and director, known for Marius and Jeannette (1997), Le voyage en Arménie (2006) and La ville est tranquille (2000). She has been married to Robert Guédiguian since 1975. They have two children.- Director
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Emmanuel Mouret was born on 30 June 1970 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. He is a director and writer, known for The Things We Say, the Things We Do (2020), Lady J (2018) and The Art of Love (2011).- Actress
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Clara Morgane was born on 25 January 1981 in Marseille, France. She is an actress and writer, known for The Last Girl (2002).- Director
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Axelle Laffont was born on 24 July 1970 in Marseille, France. She is a director and actress, known for MILF (2018), Addict (2016) and Le raid (2002).- Actor
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Antonin Artaud was born on 4 September 1896 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Lucrezia Borgia (1935) and Napoleon (1927). He died on 4 March 1948 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.- Bernard d'Ormale was born on 15 August 1941 in Marseille, France. He has been married to Brigitte Bardot since 16 August 1992.
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Paul Préboist was born on 21 July 1927 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor, known for Béru et ces dames (1968), Les quatre Charlots mousquetaires (1974) and Les Misérables (1982). He died on 4 March 1997 in Paris, France.- Born and raised in Marseille, Samir Boitard discovers acting in high school. He soon decides to fully devote himself to it, and attends the Conservatory of Paris' 17th arondissement , with Michele Garay. He makes his first steps in cinema thanks to Cannes Young Talents Adami 2003. On this occasion, he plays in 'L' Epicerie, directed by Marina de Van, a short film presented at the Cannes film festival. He is singled out by his first agent and starts working on small roles. Among others, he features in 'President' by Lionel Delplanque, in which he plays opposite Albert Dupontel and in 'Cash' by Eric Besnard alongside Jean Reno and Jean Dujardin. In 2008, he obtains a major role in season 2 of '' Engrenages", a Canal + series, in which he plays a Donnie Brasco-like undercover cop.. One season later, in season 4, he marks the spirits with a long-awaited and explosive come-back. In 2011 he obtains the lead role in the TV movie "Chien de Guerre" by Fabrice Cazeneuve. During a screening of this movie at the Max Linder cinema in Paris, Samir is spotted for a feature film which is currently in the works. It is the next feature film of Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina ("Chronique des années de braise", Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1975), entitled "Le Crépuscule des ombres", about the war in Algeria. Samir will have the lead role.
Equally inspired by and trained in martial arts, the latter have become a lifestyle, a source of creativity and a powerful tool to build up his career. - Director
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Frédéric Auburtin was born on 4 June 1962 in Marseille, France. He is a director and assistant director, known for Paris, I Love You (2006), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and Bike Me Up.- Actor
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Frank Leboeuf was born on 22 January 1968 in Marseille, France. He is an actor and producer, known for The Theory of Everything (2014), Blazeball and The Eighth Sin (2015).- Actor
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Pierre-François Martin-Laval was born on 25 June 1968 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Try Me (2006), King Guillaume (2009) and RRRrrrr!!! (2004).- Maria Mauban was born on 10 May 1924 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. She was an actress, known for Journey to Italy (1954), The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials (1979) and Le concierge (1973). She was married to Jean Versini and Claude Dauphin. She died on 26 August 2014 in Ouzouer-des-Champs, Loiret, France.
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Lilou Fogli was born in Marseille. Her mother is Corsican and her father is Italian. After studying finance for 6 years, she decided to become an actress. She got her Master in Fine Arts at the Actors Studio Drama School in 2005. Her beauty and her acting will take her very far. She is a brilliant actress. She was taught by E. Kemp, S. Aston, J. Lipton, E. Barkin. She is now based in Paris.- Gérard Meylan was born on 14 December 1952 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is an actor, known for The Connection (2014), Ki lo sa? (1986) and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011).
- Chloé Lambert was born on 30 March 1973 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress, known for The Chalet (2017), Mon père avait raison (2008) and Les Dames (2010).
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Hélène Cordet was born on 3 July 1917 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She was an actress, known for The Limping Man (1953), Three Steps in the Dark (1953) and Tale of Three Women (1954). She was married to N. Boisot. She died on 1 May 1996 in Switzerland.- Actor
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Gus Leonard was born on 4 February 1859 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor, known for Wurra-Wurra (1916), Her Reputation (1923) and The Girl I Loved (1923). He died on 27 March 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
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Olivier Père was born on 17 March 1971 in Marseille, France. He is a producer and actor, known for Bacurau (2019), High Life (2018) and Titane (2021).- Writer
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Sébastien Japrisot was born on 4 July 1931 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a writer and director, known for A Very Long Engagement (2004), One Deadly Summer (1983) and Rider on the Rain (1970). He died on 4 March 2003 in Vichy, Allier, France.- Anne-Marie Pisani was born on 27 February 1961 in Marseille, France. She is an actress, known for Delicatessen (1991), The Musketeer (2001) and IP5: The Island of Pachyderms (1992).
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Gilles Marchand was born on 18 June 1963 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is a writer and director, known for Qui a tué Bambi? (2003), The Night of the 12th (2022) and With a Friend Like Harry... (2000).- Edmund Rostand was a prominent French playwright and poet.
Rostand, who was born in Marseille on 1 April, 1868, the son of the distinguished economist Eugene Rostand (1843-1915), first achieved success in Paris at the age of twenty with his vaudeville sketch 'Le Gant Rouge". A collection of poems in 1890 entitled "Les Musardises", would also be well received. Not before too long his works were being compared to that of Belgian poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949).
Some of Rostand's more successful plays were: "Les Romonesques" (1894), "La Princess Lomtain" (1895), "La Samaritaine" (1897), "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1897), "Aiglon" (1901) and "Chantecler" (1910). Many of Rostand's plays were popular on both sides of the Atlantic. The American rights to "Chantecler" alone would make him a small fortune.
Edmund Rostand was a member of L'Académie française and a commander of the Légion d'honneur. He had dined with King Edward IV at Biarritz and read "Cyrano de Bergerac" to an audience of Paris laborers. At the outbreak of World War One his offer to enlist was politely turned down by French officials. After the sinking of the Lusitania, he wrote a long poem condemning the German ambassador to America. Rostand passed away on 2 December, 1918 after a bout of influenza. Besides his son, Jean Rostand, he was survived by his wife, Rosemonde Gerard (1871-1953), a grand-daughter of Count Etienne Gerard (1773-1852), a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. - Emmanuelle Debever was born on 8 August 1963 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She was an actress, known for Danton (1983), A Brutal Game (1983) and Grain of Sand (1983). She died on 6 December 2023 in Paris, France.
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Tayc was born on 2 May 1996 in Marseille, France. He is a music artist and actor, known for Dadju & Tayc: I love you (2024), Christmas Flow (2021) and Serge Ibaka x Tayc: Leggo (2021).- Ema Stokholma was born on 9 December 1983 in Marseille, France. She is an actress, known for Appena un minuto (2019), Quasi orfano (2022) and Un altro Ferragosto (2024).
- Writer
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Jean-Patrick Manchette was born on 19 December 1942 in Marseille, France. He was a writer and actor, known for The Gunman (2015), Le choc (1982) and To Kill a Cop (1981). He died on 3 June 1995 in Paris, France.- Geno Ferny was born on 29 March 1877 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor, known for The Novel of Werther (1938), À minuit, le 7 (1937) and Son dernier Noël (1952). He died on 23 January 1972 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
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Marie Vincent was born on 15 May 1955 in Marseille, France. She is an actress, known for Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013), The Pact of Silence (2003) and The Horde (2009).