Italian-French actress
Older sister of Carla Bruni and younger sister of Virginio Bruni Tedeschi (1959 - July 4th, 2006).
Shares her birthday with singer Diana Krall.
Member of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2004
Daughter of Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, an industrial, and Marisa Borini , a concert pianist.
Il est plus facile pour un chameau... , the first movie she directed, is based on her real life experiences as daughter of a rich family.
As her family became a target of the communist Red Brigades in Italy, she grew up in Paris, France since 1975.
Sister-in-law of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
In March 2009 Valeria and her former boyfriend, French actor Louis Garrel , adopted Celine, a Senegalese baby girl. Celine was born in 2008 and was 6 months old.
Alessandra Martines , an Italian-French dancer and actress, is her cousin.
Her brother Virginio Bruni Tedeschi died on 4 July 2006, from complications of HIV/AIDS.
She was formerly in a relationship with French actor Louis Garrel from 2007 to 2012. He is 19 years her junior.
She wrote, directed and starred in Un chteau en Italie . The movie was nominated for the Palme dOr at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2013 and is in many ways autobiographical.
