Agnès Jaoui (Actor)

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Movies starring Agnès Jaoui have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.

On the Run - released in 1999 - is Agnès Jaoui's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 1 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Agnès Jaoui is Place publique - released in 2018 - with a score of 57% based on 3 reviews.

Actor Biography

Student gifted, Agnès Jaoui made hypokhâgne at the lycée Henri IV and entered the

Conservatory at the age of 17 years. It follows, from 1984, the course at the

the théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre, directed by Patrice Chéreau. Already appeared in film in The Falcon (1983, Paul Boujenah), she turns her second film with the entire cast of the Patrice Chéreau and under the direction of it in Hotel de France in 1987. That same year, playing on the planks of The Birthday of Harold Pinter, she met her future partner and collaborator, working with Jean-Pierre Bacri.

They write a first track together titled Kitchen and addictions (1992, Philippe Muyl)

whose success in the theatre, then the cinema, to encourage them in this

way of dry humor and wry. The general public discovers them

really in 1996 with the adaptation by Cédric Klapisch their second piece, An air of family.

We speak of the style Bacri-Jaoui and the film was awarded the Cesar

the Best-case scenario. But the actress Agnès Jaoui is also

distinguished thanks to his nomination for the César for Best supporting role

female. After you have signed in 1993 the script of Smoking / No smoking, the couple was again solicited by Alain Resnais in 1997 to write, but also to interpret, his comedy choir You know the song. While continuing to play only in a few films (The Cousin by Alain Corneau, 1998), Agnès Jaoui is headlining for the first time in A woman to outside (1999, Christophe Blanc).

The year 2000 marks its passage with success to the realization for The Taste of others, always written with Jean-Pierre Bacri. Two years later, she discusses the film in costumes in the starring role of the 24 hours in the life of a woman Laurent Bouhnik. In 2003, she gave the reply to Karin Viard in The Role of her life François Favrat, and begins a new stage in the comedy As a picture presented in official competition at the Cannes film Festival 2004. She won, with his co-screenwriter Jean-Pierre Bacri, the price of the best scenario. Agnès Jaoui is divided now between his profession as an actress and as a producer-writer. In 2004, in the last film of Richard Dembo, The House of Nina,

she played the title role of a woman reccueillant to the

Release the children deported during the war. She returned a time

to his first love and embarked on a career as a singer with the

output of an album to the sounds of Latin. It is under the triple cap

director-writer-actress as she returns to the cinema

2008 with Tell me about the rain co-written with his longtime friend Jean-Pierre Bacri. The film will also sign the meeting of the couple Jaoui / Bacri with Jamel Debbouze.

Agnès Jaoui has acted in films with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Nina Meurisse, Grégoire Oestermann and Michael Imperioli.

Agnès Jaoui has worked with these film directors: Bruno de Almeida and Richard Dembo.