Cécile de France

Orig­i­nal­ly from Namur, Bel­gium, Cécile de France trained at the Lyon Nation­al Supe­ri­or School of The­ater Arts. In 2002, she broke out in Cédric Klapisch’s The Span­ish Apart­ment, a role which earned her the César for Most Promis­ing Actress. In 2006, she won in the Best Sup­port­ing Actress cat­e­go­ry for the film’s sequel, Russ­ian Dolls. That year, she also starred along­side Roschdy Zem in his direc­to­r­i­al debut, Bad Faith. She went on to pur­sue an inter­na­tion­al film career work­ing with such direc­tors as the Dar­d­enne broth­ers, Clint East­wood, Claude Chabrol, Xavier Gian­no­li, Wes Ander­son, Cather­ine Corsi­ni and Pao­lo Sor­renti­no. She recent­ly re-teamed with Cédric Klapisch for Colours of Time and played the lead role in Yann Gozlan’s spec­u­la­tive sci-fi film Dal­loway and in Sophie Beaulieu’s roman­tic com­e­dy The Doll. She will soon appear in Lau­ri­ane Escaf­fre and Yvo Muller’s Women on Tri­al, pre­sent­ed at the most recent Cannes Film Festival.