Valeria Bruni Tedeschi-jess_iskandar

Originally from a wealthy family in Turin who left Italy for fear of the Red Brigades, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi arrived in France at the age of 9. After a year of hypokhâgne, she took theater lessons at the École des Amandiers in Nanterre, with Pierre Romans and Patrice Chéreau as teachers, who made her play Kleist and Tchekhov. If she appeared on the screen in 1986 in Paulette, the poor little billionaire, it was Chéreau who offered her her first real role in Hotel de France, a troupe film, shot with the students of Les Amandiers. She will find her mentor in 1993 for La Reine Margot and especially for the feverish Those who love me will take the train, in 1997.

The actress rose to fame in 1993 thanks to Normal People Have Nothing Exceptional, Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's first film, in which she plays a young girl on the verge of madness: her skin-deep composition earned her the César for the best female hope. Become the fetish actress of the authors of the young generation, she forges a strong bond with Noémie Lvovsky from her short film Dis-moi oui, dis-moi non, followed by her first feature, Oublie-moi, a new portrait of a woman. unstable and vulnerable. The actress with clear eyes and a broken voice plays in 1999 an unemployed woman who spends her days at the supermarket in Rien à faire by Marion Vernoux.

Confirmed filmmakers will allow Bruni-Tedeschi, accustomed to fragile and tormented characters, to reveal other facets of his talent. Sensual baker in Nénette and Boni, she embodies an obstinate policeman in Chabrol's Au coeur du mensonge. Not disdaining a more commercial cinema (Ah! If I were rich), she finds good roles in her native country, with Bellocchio (The Nurse) and Calopresti (La Seconda volta). More fulfilled than ever as she approaches her forties, she illuminates 5 x 2 (2004), an X-ray of the couple signed Ozon and deploys an unbridled fantasy in Crustaceans and shellfish (2005).

It is by co-signing the dialogues of Mots d'amour (1998) that Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi takes a liking to writing. Her first attempt as a director, the ironic self-portrait It is easier for a camel ..., won the Delluc Prize for the first film in 2003. In her second opus , Actresses, presented in the Official Selection at Cannes in 2007, she continues to humorously expose his doubts and anxieties. This mixture of lightness and gravity can be found in the same year in Faut que ça danse! of her friend Noémie Lvovsky, in which she plays the daughter of Jean-Pierre Marielle.

In 2008, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi shares, with Miou-Miou and Lambert Wilson, the poster for the adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel by Agathe Bonitzer: Le Grand alibi. She returns to the dramatic genre in Les Regrets by Cédric Kahn where she finds her childhood love in the person of Yvan Attal, before playing a teacher facing the expulsion of undocumented children, a political subject close to her heart. , in Les Mains en l'air (2009) by Romain Goupil. The same year, the actress returned to her Italian origins by filming under the direction of Gabriele Muccino, back from her American escapade, in Another kiss.

Six years after Actresses, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi resumes her directorial costume for A Castle in Italy, a dramatic comedy featuring the tribulations of an Italian family, and including in its cast Louis Garrel and Xavier Beauvois. The film is presented in official competition in Cannes, to everyone's surprise. In 2014, she starred in Les Opportunistes, but also in Saint Laurent de Bonello, where she played the role of Mme Duzer.