Agnès Jaoui
Agnès Jaoui (* October 19, 1964 in Antony, near Paris ) is a French actress, writer and director.
Life
Jaoui works as a scriptwriter and actress often together with Jean -Pierre Bacri. Bacri and Jaoui were extended period of time also a couple. The films are often based on plays that had both written and performed before. The theater presentation is still recognizable in the few actors involved and the spatial unit in the comedy itself.
For her screenplays, her work as a director and as an actress she has received several awards. Your movie taste for our own (Le goût des autres ) won the 2001 César awards four, including the César for best film of the year and for best screenplay. For Look at me! she received the European Film Award for Best Screenplay, together with Jean -Pierre Bacri, who himself took over as a supporting actor role in the film. Jaoui was nominated at the European Academy for best director and received the award for best screenplay at the International Film Festival of Cannes 2004.
At the Paris Conservatoire Jaoui received at the age of 15 years singing lessons. Singing - une in their own movie Comme Image plays a singing teacher - accompanied them also in acting again. In the spring of 2005, she toured with some South African friends with a show called Historias del amor by a few French cities. This program resulted in the CD Canta, released in 2006.
Their successful collaboration set Jaoui and Bacri continue with your new film 's Talk About the Rain ( 2009). Even with her third feature film Jaoui wrote the screenplay himself and was represented as a director and actress both before and behind the camera.