Danièle Thompson
Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942 in Monaco) is a French film director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury and actress Jacqueline Roma.
She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films including Cousin, cousine, La Boum, Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, La Reine Margot and Jet Lag which she also directed. She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Cousin, cousine. Her 2006 film Fauteuils d'orchestre was France's entrant for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. She is half Jewish from her father[1] and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury.[2]
Thompson's son is the actor Christopher Thompson. They have written screenplays together, most notably those of Jet Lag and Season's Beatings (1999).[1]
[edit] Partial filmography
- Le code a changé (2008) written, directed
- Fauteuils d'orchestre (2006) written, directed
- Jet Lag (2002) written, directed
- Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre written
- Season's Beatings (1999) written, directed
- La Reine Margot (1994) written
- Le Tiroir secret (1986) TV, written
- La Boum 2 (1982) written
- L'as des as (1980) written
- La Boum (1980) written
- Cousin, cousine (1975) written
- Owen's Greatness (1985) written
[edit] References
- ^ Janis L. Pallister; Ruth A. Hottell (2005). Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-0-8386-4046-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=P15tyiOSRz0C&pg=PA195. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
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