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, Hauts-de-Seine, 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 Henri-IV 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 Pinter's L'anniversaire with Jean-Pierre Bacri, who later became a faithful colleague and companion. Jaoui and Bacri wro...
Same Old Song
1997
I'm All Yours
2015
The Role of Her Life
2004
Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
2002
Yuku and the Himalayan Flower
2022
The Hawk
1983
Immortelle Barbara - « …Du bout des lèvres » au Grand Rex à Paris, le 18/09/2023
2024
Nina's House
2005
Family Resemblances
1996
On the Run
1999
The Taste of Others
2000
Place publique
2018
Life Lessons
2023
Let It Rain
2008
Under the Rainbow
2013
I Got Life!
2017
Kitchen with Apartment
1993
The Companions
2022
Look at Me
2004
Wow!
2023
This is My Mother
2024
Room 999
2023
Women in Love
1987
The Dandelions
2012
This Life of Mine
2024
Canti
1991
Hôtel de France
1987
A Nice Jewish Boy
2024
The Easy Way Out
2015
The Sweet Escape
2015
Becoming Marilyn
2022
The Scent of Carrots
2013
The Cousin
1997
Le Déménagement
1997
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
2021