Agnès Jaoui

Agnès Jaoui born 19 October 1964 is a French actress screenwriter film director and singer Jaoui has won six César Awards three Lumières Awards and a Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival She has received numerous other awards and nominations including a nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Jaoui was born in Antony HautsdeSeine and is of Tunisian Jewish descent She is the daughter of Hubert Jaoui and Gyza Jaoui who are both writers They moved to Paris when she was 8 years old She started theatre when she was in high school at the Lycée HenriIV in Paris She entered the Cours Florent when she was 15 Patrice Chéreau director of the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre where she began attending drama classes in 1984 gave her a role in the film Hôtel de France in 1987 That same year she appeared in Harold Pinters Lanniversaire with JeanPierre Bacri who later became a faithful colleague and companion Jaoui and Bacri wrote the play Cuisine et dépendances which was adapted onscreen in 1992 by Philippe Muyl In 1993 director Alain Resnais asked them to write an adaptation of Alan Ayckbourns 8part play Intimate Exchanges which became the 2part film SmokingNo Smoking This ironic diptych about free will and destiny won the César Award for Best Writing in 1994 In 1996 they came to know greater success with Cédric Klapischs adaptation of their play Family Resemblances Un air de famille which showed their ability to observe and depict everyday life and to criticize the social norms through bitter and corrosive humor Once again they won the César Award for Best Writing in 1997 and the same year collaborated again with Resnais on Same Old Song On connaît la chanson which they wrote but also interpreted together they won their third César Award for Best Writing and Jaoui her first César Award for Best Supporting Actress Jaoui directed her first feature film The Taste of Others Le Goût des autres 2000 written with Bacri which questions socialcultural identities The film was a huge success in France and attracted 4 million spectators It also won 4 César Awards in 2001 including Best Film and Best Writing and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film In 2004 Jaouis second film as a director Look at Me Comme une image cowritten with Bacri was selected for the Cannes Festival and won the prize for Best Screenplay She starred in the last Richard Dembos film La maison de Nina 2005 and then focused on music and released her album of Latin songs Canta 2006 She returned to cinema in 2008 with Lets Talk About the Rain Parlezmoi de la pluie with French humorist Jamel Debbouze in a different role from what he was used to In 2012 Jaoui directed her latest film to date Under the Rainbow Au bout du conte also cowritten with Bacri She revisits several fairy tales such as Cinderella Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood It received acclaim from critics and audiences for originality and humor in the writing and dialogue Source Article Agnès Jaoui from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30