Andréa Bescond

A dancer from the age of three, Andréa Bescond trained at the Rosel­la High­tow­er Inter­na­tion­al School, then at the Nation­al Supe­ri­or Con­ser­va­to­ry of Music and Dance in Paris. In 1998, she won Best New­com­er in the Paris Inter­na­tion­al Dance Com­pe­ti­tion, and began a var­ied career span­ning mod­ern, African, hip-hop and krump. This mul­ti­plic­i­ty allowed her to work with chore­o­g­ra­phers Bill Jones, Blan­ca Li, Corinne Lanselle and George Mom­boye, and in such var­ied musi­cal come­dies as “Bagh­dad Cafe,” “The Ten Com­mand­ments” and “Romeo and Juli­et.” In 2009, she made her first for­ay into the­ater with “The 39 Steps” direct­ed by Éric Métay­er, which earned her a Molière nom­i­na­tion for Best New­com­er the next year. She went on to per­form in Éric Métayer’s “Train fan­tôme” (2013) and “Les Grands moyens” direct­ed by Arthur Jug­not and David Rous­sel in 2014. That same year, she wrote and direct­ed “Les Cha­touilles ou la danse de la colère,” with Éric Métay­er, a one-woman show inspired by her own sto­ry. After win­ning the 2016 Molière for Best Solo Show, they made a film adap­ta­tion as their cin­e­mat­ic direc­to­r­i­al debut. Lit­tle Tick­les was select­ed by the Un Cer­tain Regard sec­tion of the 2018 Cannes Film Fes­ti­val, received the Ornano-Valen­ti Prize that same year and won the 2019 César for Best Adapt­ed Screen­play. They went on to direct À la folie, a TV movie for M6 for which Marie Gillain, who played the lead role, won the Best Actress Award at the 2021 La Rochelle Fes­ti­val. Their sec­ond fea­ture film, Quand tu seras grand, is com­ing soon.