Amanda Sthers
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| Born | Amanda Queffélec-Maruani April 18, 1978 Paris, France |
| Spouse | Patrick Bruel (2004-2007) |
| Children | 2 |
Amanda Queffélec-Maruani (born April 18, 1978), known professionally as Amanda Sthers, is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.[1][2][3]
She is of Tunisian Sefardi origin, and has written ten novels which have been translated in more than 14 countries. Sthers has been given the title of "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government.[citation needed]
Her first play, "Le Vieux Juif blonde" is today studied at Harvard University.[citation needed] Her play "Le Lien" has been performed in Paris and at the Avignon Festival in 2013,[citation needed] and was widely performed in Italy in 2016.[citation needed]
Sthers wrote and directed the movie Je vais te manquer in which she directed Carole Bouquet, Michael Lonsdale, and Mélanie Thierry.[citation needed]
In 2015[citation needed] she wrote an adaptation of Les Terres Saintes / Holy Lands, which she later directed in English.[4] Shooting took place during winter 2017 in Israel.[citation needed]
At the 2017 Zurich Film Festival, Madame, a feature film that she wrote and directed in English was screened, starring Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, and Rossy de Palma.
Personal life
Singer and actor Patrick Bruel was Sthers' first husband with who she married on 21 September 2004. The two have two children, Oscar and Léon who was born 28 September 2005. The couple separated in 2007. Sthers moved to Los Angeles, California with her two children in 2017 where she started a film production company.
Works
- 2002: Caméra Café, TV series, writer
- 2004: Ma place sur la photo, novel (ISBN 2246659817)
- 2005: Chicken Street, novel (ISBN 2246690714)
- 2006: Le vieux juif blonde, play with Mélanie Thierry, directed by Jacques Weber (ISBN 2246717019)
- 2006: Le chat bleu, l’alouette et le canard timide, children book, drawings by Pierre Cornuel, Grasset Jeunesse (ISBN 2246715814)
- 2007: Thalasso, play
- 2007: Madeleine, novel
- 2007: Les pt'its legumes, children book (ISBN 978-2-916780-57-3)
- 2008: Keith Me, novel, Stock (ISBN 978-2-234-06150-7)
- 2010: Les terres saintes, novel, Stock (ISBN 9782234064225)
- 2010: Liberace, biography, Plon (ISBN 978-2259211154)
- 2011: Le carnet secret de Lili Lampion, children book, stage musical at the Théâtre de Paris
- 2012: Rompre le charme, novel, Stock
- 2012: Le lien, play
- 2013: Dans mes yeux, Johnny Hallyday biography, Plon (ISBN 978-2259218627)
- 2013: Les érections américaines, essay, Flammarion
- 2013: Mur, play
- 2015: Les promesses, novel, Grasset
- 2015: Conseil de famille, play, Théâtre de la Renaissance
- 2017: Madame, feature film, writer and director
- 2017: Holy Lands, feature film, writer and director
References
- ^ Balle, Catherine (28 September 2007). "M m e Bruel est irrésistible" [Mrs Bruel is irresistible]. Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 20 September 2016.
- ^ "Amanda Sthers: La belle et son amoureux officialisent lors du Festival de Cannes". Purepeople (in French). 16 May 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
- ^ "Amanda Sthers, céli ba taire et prête pour l'amour" [Amanda Sthers, single and ready for love]. Gala (in French). Prisma Média. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
- ^ "Holy Lands (2018)". IMDB. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
External links
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Writers from Paris
- French women novelists
- French women screenwriters
- French screenwriters
- French women dramatists and playwrights
- French women film directors
- French people of Tunisian-Jewish descent
- Film directors from Paris
- 21st-century French novelists
- 21st-century French dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century French women writers
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 21st-century screenwriters