Élodie Bouchez

Élodie Bouchez began her career in 1981 with Stan the Flash­er, the last film direct­ed by Serge Gains­bourg. Quick­ly rec­og­nized for her auda­cious and poignant choic­es, she won the Most Promis­ing Young Actress César in 1993 for her per­for­mance in André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds, then the Best Actress César in 1998 for Erik Zonca’s The Dream­life of Angels. That same year, the film also earned her the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val. Élodie Bouchez has also been direct­ed by Abe­del­latif Kechiche in Poet­i­cal Refugee and by such oth­er tal­ent­ed direc­tors as Yolande Zauber­man, Gaël Morel, Quentin Dupieux, Antony Cordier and Oliv­er Dahan… In 2005, she scored a major hit with audi­ences in James Huth’s com­e­dy The Brice Man and went on to appear in two Amer­i­can series: Alias and The L Word. In 2019, Jeanne Her­ry direct­ed her in In Safe Hands, which earned her the Best Actress Lumiere Award and a Best Actress César nom­i­na­tion. The next year she rejoined Olivi­er Dahan for Simone Veil, A Woman of the Cen­tu­ry and also shot Laeti­tia Masson’s Un hiv­er en été and Guil­laume Gouix’s Amore Mio, three films com­ing soon. She just fin­ished shoot­ing Jeanne Herry’s fea­ture film J’ai croisé le loup and will soon begin film­ing Céline Rouzet’s En atten­dant la nuit.