Jeanne Balibar
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Jeanne Balibar is a French actress and singer.
She was born in Paris. She began her acting career on the stage, in "Don Juan
" at the Festival d'Avignon
. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechin's
1992 film The Sentinel. She continues to perform in both spheres.
Recently she starred in Ne Change Rien (2009) directed by Pedro Costa
. Among other films, she participated in All the Fine Promises
(2003) directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
with Bulle Ogier
and Valérie Crunchant
, Saltimbank (2003) directed by Jean-Claude Biette with Jean-Marc Barr
, Clean
(2004) directed by Olivier Assayas
with Maggie Cheung
and Nick Nolte
.
She is the daughter of Étienne Balibar
, French Marxist philosopher and physicist
Françoise Balibar.
She lists Rose Murphy
, Régine Crespin
, Frank Sinatra
, Rosa Ponselle
and Chet Baker
as singers whose work she appreciates and Béatrice Dalle
, Carole Lombard
, Louise Brooks
, Glenn Close
and Juliet Berto
as actresses.
She was born in Paris. She began her acting career on the stage, in "Don Juan
Don Juan
Don Juan is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630...
" at the Festival d'Avignon
Festival d'Avignon
The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest...
. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechin's
Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director.-Biography:Arnaud Desplechin is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department...
1992 film The Sentinel. She continues to perform in both spheres.
Recently she starred in Ne Change Rien (2009) directed by Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director.He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations...
. Among other films, she participated in All the Fine Promises
All the Fine Promises
All the Fine Promises is a 2003 French movie directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac based on the novel Hymne à l'amour by Anne Wiazemsky.- Plot :...
(2003) directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Jean-Paul Civeyrac is a French New Wave director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l’amour, with the title All the fine promises . This movie was awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003...
with Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier is a French actress.Ogier's first appearance on screen was in Voilà l'Ordre, a short film directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc.She worked with Jacques Rivette Bulle Ogier (born...
and Valérie Crunchant
Valérie Crunchant
Valérie Crunchant is a French actress.She was born in Évry, Essonne, a suburb of Paris.Valérie Crunchant appears in All the fine promises , directed and written by Jean-Paul Civeyrac in which she was very graceful as the young Ghislaine.In Capitaine Achab directed by Philippe Ramos she...
, Saltimbank (2003) directed by Jean-Claude Biette with Jean-Marc Barr
Jean-Marc Barr
Jean-Marc Barr is a French-American film actor and director. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a film director, screenwriter and producer...
, Clean
Clean (film)
Clean is a 2004 film directed by French director Olivier Assayas, starring Nick Nolte and Maggie Cheung. It was jointly funded by Canada, France, and United Kingdom sources.-Plot:...
(2004) directed by Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...
with Maggie Cheung
Maggie Cheung
Maggie Cheung Man yuk is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983...
and Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte
Nicholas King "Nick" Nolte is an American actor whose career has spanned over five decades, peaking in the 1990s when his commercial success made him one of the most popular celebrities of that decade.-Early life:...
.
She is the daughter of Étienne Balibar
Étienne Balibar
Étienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher. After the death of his teacher Louis Althusser, Balibar quickly became the leading exponent of French Marxist philosophy.- Life and work :...
, French Marxist philosopher and physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
Françoise Balibar.
She lists Rose Murphy
Rose Murphy
Rose Murphy was a pianist and vocalist most famous for the song 'Busy Line'....
, Régine Crespin
Régine Crespin
Régine Crespin was a French singer who had a major international career in opera and on the concert stage between 1950 and 1989. She started her career singing roles in the dramatic soprano and spinto soprano repertoire, drawing particular acclaim singing Wagner and Strauss heroines...
, Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
, Rosa Ponselle
Rosa Ponselle
Rosa Ponselle , was an American operatic soprano with a large, opulent voice. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered by music critics to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the past 100 years.-Early life:She was born Rosa Ponzillo on January 22, 1897,...
and Chet Baker
Chet Baker
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...
as singers whose work she appreciates and Béatrice Dalle
Béatrice Dalle
-Biography:Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. In 1985 she married the painter Jean-François Dalle but they divorced in 1988....
, Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard was an American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s...
, Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks
Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...
, Glenn Close
Glenn Close
Glenn Close is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and...
and Juliet Berto
Juliet Berto
Juliet Berto was a French actress. A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky, she first appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and would go on to appear in many of Godard's subsequent films, including La Chinoise, Week End, Le Gai Savoir,...
as actresses.
Filmography
- The Sentinel (1992)
- My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (French title: Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle), 1996)
- J'ai horreur de l'amour (1997)
- Late August, Early SeptemberLate August, Early SeptemberLate August, Early September is a 1998 French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas and starring Mathieu Amalric.-Cast:* Mathieu Amalric as Gabriel* Virginie Ledoyen as Anne* François Cluzet as Adrien* Jeanne Balibar as Jenny* Alex Descas as Jérémie...
(French title: Fin août, début septembre, 1998) - Dieu seul me voit (Versailles-Chantiers)(1998)
- Ça ira mieux demain (2000)
- Comedy of InnocenceComedy of InnocenceComedy of Innocence is a 2000 French drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz and starring Isabelle Huppert.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - Ariane* Jeanne Balibar - Isabella* Charles Berling - Serge* Edith Scob - Laurence* Nils Hugon - Camille...
(2000) - With all my love (2001)
- Who knows?Va savoirVa savoir is a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jacques Rivette. It stars Jeanne Balibar, Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles, and Catherine Rouvel. In the normal version, Va Savoir is 154 minutes...
(French title: Va savoir, 2001) - 17 Times Cécile Cassard (French title: 17 fois Cécile Cassard, 2002)
- Wimbledon StadiumWimbledon StadiumWimbledon Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located in Wimbledon in southwest London, England. It also hosts speedway, stock car and other racing events....
(French title: Le stade de Wimbledon, 2002) - A private affair (French title: Une affaire Privée, 2002)
- Saltimbank (2003)
- All the Fine PromisesAll the Fine PromisesAll the Fine Promises is a 2003 French movie directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac based on the novel Hymne à l'amour by Anne Wiazemsky.- Plot :...
(French title: Toutes ces belles promesses, 2003) - Code 46Code 46Code 46 is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, with screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It was produced by BBC Films and Revolution Films. It is a disquieting science fiction love story with themes that explore the moral impacts of advances in biotechnology. The soundtrack was...
(2003) - CleanClean (film)Clean is a 2004 film directed by French director Olivier Assayas, starring Nick Nolte and Maggie Cheung. It was jointly funded by Canada, France, and United Kingdom sources.-Plot:...
(2004) - Call me Agostino (2005)
- The Duchess of LangeaisThe Duchess of LangeaisThe Duchess of Langeais is a 2007 French film directed by Jacques Rivette. Its original French title is Ne touchez pas la hache , and it is based on the 1834 novel of the same name by Honoré de Balzac...
(2007) (French title: Ne touchez pas la hache, 2007) - The Ball of the ActressesThe Ball of the ActressesThe Ball of the Actresses is a French film directed by Maïwenn. The title is a reference to a movie by Roman Polanski, The Fearless Vampire Killers .-Cast:* Joey Starr* Estelle Lefébure* Bertrand Blier* Jeanne Balibar...
(2009) - A Town Called PanicA Town Called Panic (film)A Town Called Panic is a 2009 stop-motion animated film, co-produced by Belgium, Luxembourg and France. It was directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar and is based on the TV series of the same name...
(2009) - Ne Change Rien (2009)