This French actress settled in Geneva in 1996 to raise her two children. Born Isabelle Adjanian in Paris on June 27, 1955, she concentrated on her studies before delving into acting. She joined the Comedie Francaise in 1973 and played a role in Moliere's l'Ecole des Femmes (The School for Wives).

Isabelle Anne Huppert (born March 16, 1953, Paris) is a French actress. She was raised in Ville d'Avray, a western suburb of Paris.

Claude Berri is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. His films (as director) include "The Two of Us" (1967), "So Long, Stooge" (1983), "Jean de Florette" (1986), "Manon des sources" (1986) and "Germinal" (1993) - at that time the most expensive French feature film ever made. Berri won the "Best Film" BAFTA for "Jean de Florette", and has also been nominated for no less than twelve César Awards, …

Sandrine Bonnaire is an internationally-famous French actress, born 31 May 1967 in the town of Gannat in the Auvergne region. Throughout her career, Sandrine Bonnaire has conducted herself in a rather serious manner, she herself admitting that her demeanour must appear to others as sombre. She was born into a working-class background, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in 1983, …

Charlotte Gainsbourg (born on) is an Anglo-French actress and singer.

Nathalie Baye is an award winning French actress. She has won the César award for her acting four times and been nominated a further five times.

Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. Ardant grew up in Monaco until age 17 when she moved to Aix-en-Provence to study at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence. In her early twenties her interest turned to acting and in 1974 she made her first appearance on stage. By the early 1980s she was a major motion picture star, …

Jacques Audiard is a French film director. <br/> At the beginning of the 1980s he successfully began screenwriting, including "Reveillon chez Bob!" and "Mortelle randonnée", "Baxter", "Fréquence Meurtre" and "Saxo". In 1994 he directed the film "Regarde les hommes tomber", a road movie with Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film won the César Award for the best first film and the prix Georges-Sadoul.

Cédric Klapisch is a French film director born in 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. He studied cinema in France at university and at 23 years old he went to the New York University for two years to continue his studies in the cinema. During the 80's he started to shoot short films like "In transit" or "Ce qui me meut". After this he worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for corporate films.

Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1, 1943) is a French film director. He was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, France. He began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to early 1970s. In his first feature film, "Black and White in Color" from 1976, he used personal experience obtained during his own military service in Cameroon. The film was awarded an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film.

Virginie Ledoyen is a French actress. She was a print model from the age of 2 and later took on the stage name "Ledoyen" after the maiden name of her maternal grandmother, who had been a stage actress. Her breakthrough came with "La Fille seule" (1995) for which she was nominated for a César Award (France's version of the Oscar). Outside of France, her best-known role is alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Beach" (2000).

Yvan Attal is a Israeli Born-French actor and director. Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel to French-Algerian Jewish parents, he grew up in the Paris suburbs. His acting debut was in Éric Rochant's "Un monde sans pitié" (1989), which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor. His first feature film as director was "Ma femme est une actrice" (2001), which co-starred Charlotte Gainsbourg, Attal's real-life wife. They have two children: Ben and Alice.

Jean Rochefort is a French actor who has appeared in more than 100 movies. Rochefort was born in Dinan, a town of Côtes-d'Armor, France. He was 19 years old when he entered the "Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche". Later he joined the "Conservatoire National". After his national service, in 1953, he worked with the "Compagnie Grenier Hussenot" as a theatre actor for seven years. There he was noticed for his ability to play both drama and comedy.

Coline Serreau is a French film director and writer. In Paris Serreau studied literature, music and theatre as well as circus. In 1970 she made her debut as an actress at the Theâtre du Vieux Colombier, in 1973 she wrote her first screenplay. Her first film, the documentary film "Mais qu'est ce qu'elles veulent?" (1978), literally: "But what do they want, after all?", was a compilation of interviews with women from various backgrounds.

Miou-Miou is a French actress. In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Bertrand Blier, Yves Boisset, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Michel Deville, Diane Kurys, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle.

César Baldaccini was a noted sculptor. He is the creator of the César du cinéma trophy which awards the best in French cinema.

Jean Delannoy (born January 12, 1908 in Noisy-le-Sec, Île-de-France) is a French, actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He is a Protestant, a descendant of Huguenots, some of whom fled the country during the French Wars of Religion first to settle in Wallonia then, after their name became De la Noye and then Delano, …

Jean Carmet, born July 25, 1920 in Bourgueil, Indre-et-Loire, France, died April 20, 1994 in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, was an actor. Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internationally for his role as a French colonist in the 1976 film, "La Victoire en Chantant" (Black and White in Color).

Josiane Balasko is a French actress, writer and director. She was born Josiane Balaskovic. She is married to George Aguilar, who is also an actor. One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is as a lesbian in 1995's "Gazon maudit" ("French Twist"). She won the 1996 César Award (shared with Telsche Boorman) for best writing for this film, for which she was also nominated as best director.

Élodie Bouchez is a César Award winning French actress. She resides in Beverly Hills, California with her husband Thomas Bangalter.

Anna Biedrzycka Sheppard is a Polish costume designer. She graduated architecture from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Now she lives in London. She made many films with directing masters like Steven Spielberg or Roman Polański. She was nominated twice to an Academy Award for Best Costume Design ("Schindler's List" in 1993 and "The Pianist" in 2003). She was also nominated to BAFTA Award for Schindler's List and Cesar Award for The Pianist.

Marie Trintignant was a French actress. She was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, being the daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and his second wife Nadine Marquand. When her younger sister died at the age of nine, Marie Trintignant became withdrawn and virtually stopped speaking. Throughout her early life she was afflicted by severe shyness, but despite this, by her mid-teens she had decided to become an actress.

Michel Galabru is a French actor born on October 27, 1924 in Safi, Morocco, at the time part of French North-Africa. Over the course of his career, Galabru appeared in over 200 movies and worked with renowned directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa Gavras, Luc Besson for "Subway" and Jean-Luc Godard. He is also known for his numerous collaboration with Louis de Funès " le gendarme de St Tropez, le gendarmes se marie, Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres, …

Darry Cowl, born André Darricau was a French musician and actor. He won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2004 for his role as a concierge in "Pas sur la bouche" (Not on the mouth), which was to prove his last appearance. He was born in Vittel, and came to prominence when he was cast by Sacha Guitry in "Assassins et voleurs" (1956) (Assassins and Robbers). Following this he turned to acting in cinema roles, …

Saïd Taghmaoui is an actor and screenwriter. He was born in the Parisian suburb of Villepinte, France, into a large family (nine siblings total) of Moroccan parents. He dropped out of school to become a boxer and eventually was ranked number 2 in his weight class in France. Later he met Mathieu Kassovitz and together, they co-wrote the script for the award winning film "La Haine" (about race and violence in the suburban ghettoes of Paris).

Michelle Morgan is a French actress. A "leap day" baby, she left home at the age of 15 and received acting lessons from René Simon. For her performance in the 1946 film, "La symphonie pastorale", she won the "Best Actress" award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1942 she married American actor William Marshall with whom she had a son, Michael (1944-2005).

Serge Silberman was a French film producer. Silberman was born in Łódź, then a part of the Russian Empire. During World War II Silberman, a Jew, survived Nazi concentration camps and eventually settled in Paris. One of his first works as a film producer was Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 film "Bob the Gambler", a precursor to the French New Wave movement. Silberman's most notable collaborations were with the surrealist film director Luis Buñuel.

Sara Forestier is a French actress who lives in Paris. Her most important role was Lydia in Abdel Kechiche`s L'Esquive for which she was awarded the 2005 César Award for most promising actress.

Amira Casar is a British-born French actress. Born on July 1, 1971, the daughter of a Kurdish father and a Russian opera singer, Casar grew up in England and Ireland. Discovered by photographer Helmut Newton, she worked as a model for Chanel and Jean-Paul Gaultier, studying drama in the "Conservatoire National D'Art Dramatique" in Paris.

Maurice Garrel, born on 24 February 1923 in Saint-Servais, Isère, is a French film actor. Father of director Philippe Garrel and grandfather of actor Louis Garrel. Garrel has appeared in over a hundred films. He has been nominated twice for a Cesar Award.

Bernard Rapp was a French film director and television news presenter. Rapp was born in Paris, France. After graduating from university, he worked as a freelance journalist. In 1976, he joined Antenne 2 (now France 2) as their international correspondent, working later as their London correspondent from 1981 to 1983. Rapp was Antenne 2's news anchor from 1983 to 1987. He created a minor stir on May 18, …

Hervé Guibert was a French writer. Guibert was born in Saint-Cloud and spent his early years in Paris, moving to La Rochelle from 1970 to 1973. After unsuccessfully trying to become a filmmaker and dabbling in acting, Guibert turned to photography and journalism. In 1977 Régine Deforges published his first book, "La mort propagande". Never one to miss an opportunity to promote himself, …

Jacques Witta is a French film editor who began working in motion picture editing in the late 1950s. During his career, he has edited more than 60 feature films and has worked with noted French film directors such as Claude Berri and Jean Becker but is best known for his collaboration with Krzysztof Kieślowski which began with "The Double Life of Véronique", and continued on "Three Colors: Blue" and "Three Colors: Red".

Virna Lisi (born September 8, 1937) is an Italian film actress. She was born in Ancona, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi. Lisi began her film career, in her teens, in 1953. Cast more for her stunning looks than her talent, her early films included "La Donna del Giorno" (1956), "Eva" (1962), and the Italian-made spectacle "Romolo e Remo" (1961).

Michael Dudok de Wit (born in 1953, Holland) is an animator, director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with his first film "The Interview". After working for a year in Barcelona, he settled in London where he directs and animates award-winning commercials for television and cinema. In 1992, he created the short film "Tom Sweep", followed by "The Monk and the Fish" (1994), …

Micheal C. Flessas, is the birth name of actor Michael Flessas. Flessas' most notable film role was "Angry Man" in the Cannes Film Festival 2000 Palme d'Or winning film "Dancer in the Dark" directed by Danish film director Lars von Trier. Originally, the director himself considered playing the role but, instead, the role was given to Flessas.

Simone Bitton is a documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for and/or won the César Award, the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film Award, and the Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize for "Mur".