Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | |
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 Valeria Bruni Tedeschi at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi 16 November 1964 |
| Years active | 1986–present |
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, also spelled Bruni-Tedeschi, (born 16 November 1964 in Turin, Piedmont) is an Italian-French[1] actress.
Personal life
Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. Like her younger sister, Carla Bruni, she has settled in France, and was raised bilingual by her Italian parents[citation needed]. She holds dual Italian and French citizenship.[citation needed] Her brother-in-law, Nicolas Sarkozy, is the President of France.
Bruni Tedeschi is in a relationship with Louis Garrel. She recently[when?] adopted an African baby.[2]
Notable film appearances
Bruni Tedeschi has acted in many films since 1986, and has recently been a leading member of the cast in several internationally acclaimed films, such as
- The Color of Lies (1999)
- If I Were a Rich Man (2002)
- the Histoire d'eaux segment in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
- 5x2 (2004)
- Time to Leave (2005) - Jany
- Munich (2005)
- A Good Year (2006)
- Let's Dance (2007)
She was present at the 2005 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, to promote two films she had acted in: Tickets (2005), a three-segment film directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach, and Crustacés et Coquillages, a comedy directed by the French duo of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.
She also played a lead role in the short film Drugstore (2000),[3] as part of a French anti-drug awareness raising campaign Drug Scenes (Original French title: Scénarios sur la Drogue), directed by Marion Vernoux based on a script by Eric Ellena.[4]
Directing
Her debut film as a director, Il est plus facile pour un chameau..., won awards at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003 and at the Ankara Flying Broom Women's Film Festival in 2004.[5] It was also awarded Le Prix Louis-Delluc (the Louis Delluc Prize) for Best First Film. According to Tim Palmer the film is an engaging example of contemporary French pop-art cinema, referring to directors who wittily merge the features of intellectual/arthouse cinema with mass/popular cinema, putting Bruni Tedeschi in the company of other filmmakers such as François Ozon, Maîwenn le Besco, Sophie Fillières, Serge Bozon, etc.[6]
In 2007, Bruni Tedeschi directed Actrices, which won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
References
- ^ Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - Fluctuat.net (in French)
- ^ Carla Bruni ‘besotted’ after becoming aunt to African baby
- ^ "uniFrance (in French)".
- ^ "Scénarios sur la drogue (in French)".
- ^ IMDb page of awards for Il est plus facile pour un chameau...
- ^ Palmer, Tim (2011). Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton CT. ISBN 0819568279.