- Emmanuelle Seigner
Emmanuelle Seigner (born June 22, 1966) is a French actress and former fashion model. Seigner was born in Paris, France to a photographer father and a journalist mother. She is the granddaughter of the respected French actor Louis Seigner (1903-1991) and sister of the actress Mathilde Seigner. She was educated at a Catholic convent school, and began modelling at the age of fourteen, capitalizing on her beauty. She achieved international status as a professional model. - Jean Genet
Jean Genet (–), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal; later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including "Querelle de Brest", "The Thief's Journal", "Our Lady of the Flowers", "The Balcony", "The Blacks" and "The Maids". - Paul Morand
Paul Morand was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist. He was a member of the Académie française (there was only once a controversy about his candidature, which de Gaulle opposed in 1958. He was finally elected 10 years later). He was a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po). During the pre-war period, he wrote many short books which are noted for their elegance of style, erudition, … - France Gall
France Gall is a popular French singer. Her father was lyricist Robert Gall, and her mother, Cécile Berthier, was the daughter of Paul Berthier, co-founder of Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois. Gall was married to, and had a very successful singing career in partnership with, the well-known French singer-songwriter, Michel Berger. - Johnny Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday (born June 15, 1943 in Paris, France) is a French singer and actor. An icon in the French-speaking world since the very beginning of his career, some consider him to be the French equivalent of Elvis Presley. He has had a 40-year career in the music industry and is one of France's biggest stars. He has made 400 tours, had 18 platinum albums, performed in front of 15 million people, and sold 100 million discs since the beginning of his career. - Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 - March 2, 1991) was a French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's varied style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. Although famous in France for many years, he did not achieve his first No. 1 album until 1979, when he released "Aux Armes et caetera" more than twenty years after his music career had begun. But since the 1980s, his legacy has been firmly established. - Christian Clavier
Christian Clavier is a French actor born May 6, 1952 in Paris. After his studies at "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po") he started his acting career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid and participated in a number of burlesque films with the troupe, which had hits with films like "Les Bronzés font du ski" and "Le Père Noël est une ordure". His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, … - Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol (born June 24, 1930, Paris) is a French film director and has become well-known since his first film, "Le Beau Serge" (1958) for his chilling tales of murder, including "Le Boucher" (1970). He was a member of the French New Wave cinema group. Chabrol and Éric Rohmer wrote "Hitchcock" (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957) a study of the films made by director Alfred Hitchcock through the film "The Wrong Man" (1957). - Josiane Balasko
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. - Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathie Lee Gifford (born Kathryn Lee Epstein on August 16, 1953) is an American playwright, singer, songwriter, and actress, famous for her stint on the television talk show "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee", which she co-hosted with Regis Philbin for 15 years. So far she has received 11 Emmy nominations. - Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known French singers abroad. He has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed more than 1000 songs (including 150 in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German), and sold well over 100 million records. Aznavour started his global farewell tour in late 2006. - Guillaume Depardieu
Guillaume Depardieu is a French actor. He is the son of the actor Gérard Depardieu and the actress Elisabeth Depardieu. He is the brother of the actress Julie Depardieu and half-brother of Roxane Depardieu. He has a daughter named Louise. In 1995 Guillaume Depardieu had a motorcycle accident due to a suitcase thst fell off a vehicle in front of him. Depardieu needed surgery on his knee. - Isabelle Adjani
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). - Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch (born October 30, 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Born in Paris, Lelouch won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 for "Un homme et une femme" ("A Man and a Woman"), as well as two oscars including best foreign language film. The 1981 musical epic "Les Uns et les Autres" is widely considered as his masterpiece. - Marie Drucker
Marie Drucker (born in Paris on December 3 1974) is a French journalist and television personality. She is the daughter of Jean Drucker and niece of Michel Drucker, both prominent French television stars. She got a degree in modern literature from Sorbonne. Her journalist career started in 1994, when she worked as a freelance journalist for "Le Figaro" and ELLE among others, befor settling down with the agency "Capa" in 1997, … - Julie Dreyfus
Julie Dreyfus is a French actress. Dreyfus, who speaks fluent Japanese, French, and English, is well known in Japan, where she made her TV debut on a French-language lesson program on NHK's educational channel, and has appeared on the TV show "Ryōri no Tetsujin" ("Iron Chef") as a guest and judge, where she famously refused to eat a meal prepared by Toshiro Kandagawa, because it contained whale meat. - Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel (born November 23 1966) is a French actor. - Roman Coppola
Roman Coppola (born 22 April 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is an American film director and music video director. He attended New York University's film school. He is the son of 5-time Academy Award winning director, producer, and writer Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola, brother of Academy Award winning film director Sofia Coppola and the late Gian-Carlo Coppola, first cousin to actor Nicolas Cage. - Charles Gounod
Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas "Faust" and "Roméo et Juliette". - Marcel Dalio
Marcel Dalio, born Israel Moshe Blauschild (17 July 1900 in Paris, France - 20 November 1983 in Paris), was a French Jewish character actor. He had major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game". After divorcing his first wife, he married 17-year old Madeleine LaBeau (Yvonne from "Casablanca") in 1938. - Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza, is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian. Reza began work as an actress, appearing in several new plays as well as in plays by Molière and Marivaux. In 1987 she wrote "Conversations after a Burial," which won the Molière Award, the French equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award or the Tony Award, for Best Author. - Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December, 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the "Nouvelle Vague", or "French New Wave". Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied anthropology. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave. - Chiara Mastroianni
Chiara Mastroianni (born 28 May 1972) is an Italian-French actress. Mastroianni was born in Paris, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni. On 11 May 2002, she married the author and musician Benjamin Biolay. Mastroianni has two children: a son, Milo, born in 1998 from a relationship with sculptor Pierre Torreton, and a daughter, Anna, born in 2003 from her current marriage. - Abel Gance
Abel Gance was a world-renowned French film director, producer, writer, actor and editor best remembered for his work in silent film. Gance was born illegitimate in Paris. His parents wanted him to become a lawyer, but he was attracted to the theatre from an early age. He made his stage debut as an actor in Brussels at the age of 19, and took his first film role in the 1909 film, "Molière". - Gérard Jugnot
Gérard Jugnot is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He gained international fame for his lead role in "Les Choristes". - Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French Academy Award-winning actress. - Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville was a noted French film director. He later adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. - Manu Chao
Manu Chao is a French, Spanish, Galician-Portuguese, English language singer of Galician origins. He is also occasionally credited as Oscar Tramor. - Olivier Martinez
Olivier Martinez (born January 12, 1966 in Paris, France) is a Spanish-French film actor. He became known after roles in several French films, and has also appeared in Hollywood-produced features, including "Unfaithful". - Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel was a French actor, born in Paris. The son of a doctor father and opera singer mother, Cassel was discovered by Gene Kelly as he tap danced on stage, and later cast in the 1957 film "The Happy Road". Then Cassel gained fame in the late 1950s as a hero in comedies by Philippe de Broca. During the 1960s and 1970s he worked with Claude Chabrol ("La Rupture"), Luis Buñuel (as Stéphane Audran's husband in "Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie"), … - Jean-Pierre Aumont
Jean-Pierre Aumont was a French actor. - Caroline Lagerfelt
Caroline Eugenie Lagerfelt (born September 23, 1947, Paris) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She is descended from Swedish nobility; her father is the Swedish diplomat Baron I. Karl-Gustav E. Lagerfelt. Her mother is English. She grew up in Sweden, but moved to the United States after college, where she enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Caroline Lagerfelt is perhaps best known for her role from 1996-2001 as Inger Dominguez, … - Roland Topor
Roland Topor (1938-1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril. - Pierre Tchernia
Pierre Tchernia was born "Pierre Tcherniakowski" on January 29, 1928 in Paris. In France known as "Magic" Tchernia" and "Monsieur Cinema", he is a cinema and television producer, screenwriter, presenter, animator and actor. - Louis Garrel
Louis Garrel is a French actor. He starred in "The Dreamers" by Bernardo Bertolucci. He is the son of Philippe Garrel, a French director, and Brigitte Sy, a director and actress. His grandfather is Maurice Garrel and his godfather is actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, both of them also famous French actors. - Robert Badinter
Robert Badinter is a French politician (after being a high-profile criminal lawyer and a university professor in Law). He belongs to the French Socialist Party and is currently a senator for the Hauts-de-Seine "département". He is mainly known for his struggle against the death penalty. - Paloma Picasso
Paloma Picasso is a French/Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the daughter of artists Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot. At an early age, Paloma was the subject of many of her father's works, including "Paloma with an Orange" and "Paloma in Blue". Eventually she turned to the field of fashion design and started her own company and brand, such as her eponymous perfume and a line of evening wear. She also designs jewelry for Tiffany & Co. - Claudine Longet
Claudine Georgette Longet (born on in Paris, France, Europe) was a popular singer and recording artist in the 1960s and 1970s. She gained further notoriety as the ex-wife of singer Andy Williams and later for being convicted for killing skiing star Spider Sabich. - Lisa Pelikan
Lisa Pelikan (born July 12, 1954, in Paris, France) is an American stage, film and television actress. She graduated from the Juilliard School with a full scholarship to its drama division. Pelikan is primarily a stage actor and director, but is also known to film audiences for her film debut as the younger version of Vanessa Redgrave's title character in "Julia" (1977) (for which Redgrave won an Oscar), … - Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Huppert (born March 16, 1953, Paris) is a French actress. She was raised in Ville d'Avray, a western suburb of Paris.
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