Déborah François
Acting
Biography
Déborah François is a Belgian actress. She is best known for her starring role in the Palme d'Or-winning film, The Child, directed by the Dardenne brothers. In 2009, she won a César Award for Most Promising Actress for The First Day of the Rest of Your Life. Wikipedia
Born: May 24, 1987
Place of Birth: Rocourt, Liège, Belgium
Known For
3x Manon
After going before the judge for the third time, 15-year old Manon is placed in a reform centre for six months. Challenged by her own uncontrollable temper, and the bureaucracy of the institution, will this be Manon’s last chance at redemption?
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
The Child
A poor young Belgian mother wants her petty thief of a boyfriend to be gainfully employed to raise their newborn child, but he has other ideas.
Zarafa
Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe – and an orphan, just like him – as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
Tous en cuisine avec Cyril Lignac
Populaire
An insurance agent and his new secretary become locked in the grip of romance and competition as they train together for a speed-typing contest.
Fanon
Frantz Fanon, a French psychiatrist from Martinique, has just been appointed head of department at the psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. His methods contrast with those of the other doctors in a context of colonization. A biopic in the heart of the Algerian war where a fight is waged in the name of Humanity.
Female Agents
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
The Page Turner
Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her parents decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Although Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, she unfortunately gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes her page turner, waiting patiently for her revenge.
Le Bruit des trousseaux
Alexis Pasquier, a young French teacher, begins his first day of classes at the Nancy prison. There he meets Léa, a young woman with whom he falls madly in love. Two worlds open up to him: true love and the prison environment. He will never be the same anymore.
Filmography
as Manon
as Josie Fanon
as Josephine
as Pauline
as Chica Francesca 1
as Chris
as Annabelle Wilkenning
as Julie Bertho
as Léa
as Madame Lebel
as Vane
as Justine
as Audrey Tate
as Maria
as Léa
as Jessica
as Hélène Jégado / Fleur de Tonnerre
as Hortense Cézanne
as Emma
as Julia Alberti
as Gloria
as Jennifer Bressan
as Laetitia
as Emmanuelle Cambière
as Rose Pamphyle
as Zarafa adulte (voice)
as Solweig
as Ada Servier
as Valerio
as Julie
as Laura
as Dalia
as Vera
as Aneth
as Fleur Duval, la fille benjamine
as Gaëlle Lemenech
as Alex
as Florence Dombais
as Mélanie Prouvost
as Sonia