Jeanne Balibar

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Biography

When she was a child, Jeanne Balibar wanted to be a dancer. She was already attracted by the stage and the show and admired great opera singers like Maria Callas. As she was going to take the last exam for becoming a lecturer, she decided not to go to the exam but to take an exam to become a stage actress. She went to the French academy for young actors, in Paris . As if she is not the most popular French actress, she is one of the most talented and her talents seem to have no limit: stage and movie acting, singing and soon dancing in Berliner's "Fred Astaire".

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·writer·soundtrack
  • Country
  • France
  • Nationality
  • French
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 13 April 1968
  • Place of birth
  • Paris
  • Spouses
  • Mathieu Amalric
  • Education
  • University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne·CNSAD·Cours Florent
  • Knows language
  • French language
  • Parents
  • Etienne Balibar·Françoise Balibar

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Trivia

Is also a stage actress

Daughter of a philosopher and a physics scientist, she was a brillant university student before becoming an actress

She is now also a singer, "Paramour", album.

Former student of the CNSAD, the French National Conservatory.

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 2001.

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 2000.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.

Has supported Franois Hollandes 2012 presidential campaign.

(October 2005) She is now on the set of Fred Astaire by Alain Berliner. She plays the part of a Cyd Charisse look-alike dancer.

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