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- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Mélanie Thierry was born on 17 July 1981 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. She is an actress and director, known for The Zero Theorem (2013), Da 5 Bloods (2020) and Babylon A.D. (2008).- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Albert Dupontel was born on 11 January 1964 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Irreversible (2002), 9-Month Stretch (2013) and See You Up There (2017).- Héléna Soubeyrand was born on 4 November 1984 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. She is an actress, known for Taken (2008), Borgia (2011) and Parents d'élèves (2020).
- Lannick Gautry was born on 3 March 1976 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. He is an actor, known for The Gilded Cage (2013), District 13: Ultimatum (2009) and Rogue City (2020).
- Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Claude Debussy was born in St. Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, France. His father was a salesman and kept a china shop. His mother was a seamstress. Some traumatizing events in his childhood caused him a depression and he never spoke about his early years. Later he could not compose without having his favorite porcelain frog.
Debussy's piano teacher, Mme. Maute, had been a student of Frédéric Chopin. She sent Debussy to the Paris Conservatory, where he studied from 1872-84 with César Franck, Ernest Guiraud and others. He lived at the castle of Nadezhda von Meck and taught her children. She was a wealthy patroness of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and eventually Debussy played all pieces by Tchaikovsky in addition to other classical repertoire. She also took Debussy on trips to Venice, Vienna and Moscow. In Vienna he heard "Tristan und Isolde" by Richard Wagner and later admitted that it had influenced him for a number of years.
Debussy won the Prix de Rome twice--in 1883 and 1884--and the money covered his studies at the Villa de Medici in Rome for the next four years. In Rome he met Franz Liszt and Giuseppe Verdi and heard more of Wagner's music, which made a strong impression on him. In 1888 and 1889 he went to listen to yet more of Wagner's music at the Bayreuth Festspiehaus. There he was very impressed by "Parsifal" and other of Wagner's works. He used the Wagnerian chromaticism for upgrades to his own tonal harmony in "Cinq poems de Baudelaire" (1889).
Debussy became influenced by the impressionist poets and artists in the circle of Stéphane Mallarmé. In 1890 he wrote his most famous music collection for piano, "Suite bergamasque", containing "Clair de Lune". His "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" (1892) continued the most productive 20-year period in his life. He composed orchestral "Nocturnes", "La Mer", "Images" (1899-1909), and the intricate ballet "Jeux" (1912) for "Ballets Russes" of Sergei Diaghilev. He was fascinated with Maurice Maeterlinck's play "Pelleas et Melisande", which inspired him to compose the eponymous symbolist opera which was praised by Paul Dukas and Maurice Ravel.
In 1908 Debussy married singer Emma Bardac after they had a daughter, Claude-Emma. Debussy called her Chou-Chou and composed for her the collection of piano pieces "Children's Corner Suite" (1909). His piano masterpiece "Preludes" were composed in 1910-1913. The twelve preludes of the first book are alluding to Frédéric Chopin, with more provocative harmonies, especially the "La Cathedrale Engloutie". In the second book of twelve preludes Debussy explored avant-garde, with deliciously dissonant harmonies and mysterious images.
The beginning of WW I and the onset of cancer depressed Debussy. He left unfinished opera, ballets and two pieces after stories by Edgar Allan Poe that later were completed by his assistants. He died on March 25, 1918, in Paris.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Steve Tran was born on 22 April 1985 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. He is an actor, known for So Woman! (2009), Leila (2010) and La fièvre (2024).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
- Production Manager
Ivan Fegyveres was born on 13 June 1973 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. He is an assistant director and director, known for La Forêt des disparus (2022), Section Zéro (2016) and Blood Coast (2023).- Amélie Mauresmo is a French former world No. 1 tennis player and tournament director. Mauresmo won two major singles titles at the 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon Championships, and also won the silver medal in singles at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Mauresmo first attained the top ranking on 13 September 2004, holding it for five weeks on that occasion. She was known for her powerful one-handed backhand and strong net play. She officially announced her retirement from professional tennis on 3 December 2009, ending a career of 15 years. The following year, she started coaching several WTA and ATP players, including Andy Murray. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Karen Chéryl was born on 19 July 1955 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. She is an actress, known for J'ai rencontré le Père Noël (1984), Choice of Arms (1981) and Cluedo (1993).- Producer
- Production Manager
François-Pierre Clavel was born on 14 September 1975 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. François-Pierre was a producer and production manager, known for Hunted (2020), The Forbidden Room (2015) and Villette Sonique (2015). François-Pierre died on 2 November 2023 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Actor
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jaque Catelain was born on 9 February 1897 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. He was an actor and director, known for La galerie des monstres (1924), L'inhumaine (1924) and The Secret Spring (1923). He was married to Suzanne Catelain. He died on 5 March 1965 in Paris, France.- André Cheron was born on 24 August 1880 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. He was an actor, known for One Hour with You (1932), The Fighting Demon (1925) and L'homme des Folies Bergère (1935). He died on 26 January 1952 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 - 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis Le Grand) or the Sun King (Le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in history. Although Louis XIV's France was emblematic of the age of absolutism in Europe, the King surrounded himself with a variety of significant political, military and cultural figures, such as Mazarin, Colbert, Louvois, the Grand Condé, Turenne, Vauban, Boulle, Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Lully, Charpentier, Marais, DE Lalande, Le Brun, Rigaud, Bossuet, Le Vau, Mansart, Charles Perrault, Claude Perrault and Le Nôtre.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Tennessee Maquignon was born on 29 January 2001 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. She is an actress, known for Pleurer des larmes d'enfance (2015), Café de Flore (2011) and La haie d'épine (2007).- Cécile Magnet was born on 9 September 1958 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. She was an actress, known for Joan of Arc, the Power and the Innocence (1989), Tom et Lola (1990) and Hôtel de police (1985). She died on 4 September 2021 in Cachan, Val-de-Marne, France.
- José Artur was born on 20 May 1927 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. He was an actor, known for La dame de chez Maxim (2008), Mr. Orchid (1946) and Les gosses mènent l'enquête (1947). He was married to Marie-Christine and Colette Castel. He died on 24 January 2015 in Paris, France.
- Grégoire Akcelrod was born on 17 September 1982 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. He is an actor, known for Munch (2016), The Magic Tuche (2018) and La Garçonne (2020).
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Christophe Koclejda was born on 14 April 1970 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. He is a director, known for Marie Magdeleine (2013), Grand Requiem d'après Beethoven (2020) and Il était une fois (2018).- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Marie-Claire Alain was born on 10 August 1926 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. She was an actress, known for The French Dispatch (2021), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) and Picture Perfect (1997). She was married to Jacques Gommier. She died on 26 February 2013 in Le Pecq, Yvelines, France.- Elizabeth Strong Cuevas was born on 22 January 1929 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. She was an actress, known for The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Strong-Cuevas Sculpture II: I Like to Be Awed (2021). She was married to Joel Carmichael and Hubert Faure. She died on 19 March 2023 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
François Gall was born on 9 November 1922 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. He is a producer and writer, known for À bout portant (1968), Konga Yo (1962) and Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer (1975).- Robert Hommet was born on 22 April 1909 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. He was an actor, known for Le client du numéro 16 (1933), La dernière berceuse (1931) and Sextette (1948). He died on 10 March 1958 in Paris, France.
- Pierre Douglas was born on 17 August 1941 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. He is an actor, known for Sous le soleil (1996), Fantômas (1980) and The Lookout (2012).
- Director
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Martine Jouando was born on 25 September 1946 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. She was a director and writer, known for L'Oeil du cyclone (1991), Zig-Zag (1975) and The World of Jacques Demy (1995). She died on 30 June 2000 in Paris, France.- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Albert Algoud was born in 1950 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. He is a writer and actor, known for Un aller simple (2001), Le schpountz (1999) and Bambou (2009).