Florence Foresti

Florence Foresti born 8 November 1973 in Vénissieux is a French comedian and actress Following her high school studies in literature theatre and dramatic expression at SaintJust de Lyon Florence Foresti entered a school for cinematography at Lyon After her studies she appeared in the French television show Thalassa At 20 Florence enrolled in a course in classical theatre at Lyon which she quit after just two days She had a few other jobs including working for EDF in Lyon before finally becoming a computer graphics artist But she didnt give up on her artistic ambitions and in 1998 made her début at the caféthéâtre Le nOmbril du mOnde The navel of the world as part of an all woman trio Les Taupes Models a pun between French Model Moles and English Top Models with Céline Ianucci and Cécile Giroud while simultaneously working as a computer graphics artist The trio was noticed while touring and Anne Roumanoff proposed to make the act the first part of her show Florence Forestis career was launched In 2001 her first onewoman show Manquerait plus quelle soit drôle The only thing missing is that she be funny won the Jury prize at the Antibes festival Her style bears comparison with that of Muriel Robin and Sylvie Joly as well as with some of the attitude and voices of Dieudonné Mbala Mbala and Élie Semoun She appeared in the Stéphane Bern programme 20h 10 pétantes and then on Laurent Ruquiers On a tout essayé playing zany characters In 2005 she starts her second onewoman show Florence Foresti fait des sketchs Florence Foresti Makes sketches In July 2007 she gave birth to her daughter Toni In the wake she plays in a play LAbribus with Philippe Elno From May 2009 to April 2011 she staged her show MotherFucker She explained the AngloSaxon directness of the title in an interview with Paris Match I asked myself can one remain a woman while still being a fulltime mother This question affected me so much that I dubbed my show MotherFucker And its a nod to Madonna my idol After the birth of her daughter Lourdes she appeared in a Tshirt with the word Mother on the front Fucker on the back Its so clever this way of playing with her image her private life and her playing with words I stole this From 13 to 23 September 2012 the Foresti Party begin Three dates in Lyon Foresti Party Lyon and five in Paris Foresti Party Bercy This huge show is broadcast live in cinema 23 September On 26 February 2016 she hosted the 41st César Awards Source Article Florence Foresti from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30