Miou-Miou
Born Sylvette Héry in 1950 in Paris,
Miou-Miou took on her stage name (which means pussycat) when she was eighteen. During her career she has appeared in films by some of the world's greatest French and international directors, including
Louis Malle, Bertrand Blier, Claude Berri, Joseph Losey, Luigi Comencini, Diane Kurys, Alain Tanner, and
Patrice Leconte. After studying acting, she worked in improvisational theatre before making her film debut in 1971 with
La Vie sentimentale de Georges Le Tueur. Her breakthrough film was Blier's
Going Places (1974) with Dewaere and Gerard Depardieu. Among her seventy films are
The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob,
Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000,
Traffic Jam,
Entre Nous,
Ménage,
La Lectrice,
May Fools,
Germinal, The Eighth Day,
Dry Cleaning, Women,
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving, and
Folle embellie. Miou-Miou has been nominated ten times for a César, winning in 1980 for
La Dérobade.
Note: This profile was written in or before
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