Déborah François

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Déborah François
Déborah François at the 2014 Cabourg Film Festival
Born (1987-05-24) 24 May 1987 (age 36)[1]
Rocourt, Liège, Belgium[2]
OccupationActress
Years active2005–present
Known forL'Enfant
Populaire

Déborah François (French pronunciation:

César Award for Most Promising Actress for The First Day of the Rest of Your Life.[3]

Early life

Déborah François was born in Rocourt, Liège, a provincial town of Belgium.[2] She is the daughter of a policeman and a social worker, and the second of their three children.[4]

Career

François grew up in

Luc Dardenne) who gave her the principal female part in their film entitled L'Enfant – The Child. The film takes place not far from François's home town in the run-down industrial town of Seraing, features a young couple, Bruno and Sonia. The couple live off social security benefits and the proceeds of Bruno's robberies – he is the head of a gang of thieves. When Sonia gives birth to a baby, Bruno cold-bloodedly sells their child to a dealer for a few thousand euros. This film was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

After her début as an actress she left school and plunged into her next film in

César Award
in 2007.

In 2009, François won a César Award for her role as Fleur in The First Day of the Rest of Your Life.[4] In that same year, she was also awarded the Romy-Schneider Prize and starred in the film My Queen Karo opposite Matthias Schoenaerts. She then starred in the 2010 film Mes chères études, (later re-titled Student Services), about a university student who turns to prostitution to pay bills. In 2013, she was nominated for the Magritte Award for Best Actress for Les Tribulations d'une caissière. In 2014, she was nominated for Populaire and in 2015 she was nominated for Maestro.

Personal life

François lives in Paris, France, after growing up in Liège, Belgium, where she attended the same high school as fellow actress Marie Gillain, who also features in Les Femmes de l'Ombre (as Suzy Desprez, while she assumes the role of Gaëlle Lemenech).[citation needed]

François said after the film L'Enfant: "My life changed completely. Before 'L'Enfant,' I thought, 'I'm this lucky girl who is going to make a movie, but that's going to be the only movie I'll ever make.' I had never even been to Paris before, and all of a sudden I'm around the world with festivals. It was very different from high school."[5]

She was in a brief relationship with Mario Casas in 2020.[6]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role(s) Director(s) Notes
1992 Malveillos, il est minuit Poupée Vazimolette Christian Pfohl & Kram Reyob Short film
2005 The Child Sonia
Dardenne Brothers
 Joseph Plateau Award for Best Belgian Actress
2006 The Page Turner Mélanie Prouvost Denis Dercourt
2007 Red Ants Alex Stéphan Carpiaux
Indian Summer Suzanne Alain Raoust
2008 Female Agents Gaëlle Lemenech Jean-Paul Salomé
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life Fleur Duval Rémi Bezançon
César Award for Most Promising Actress
2009 Unmade Beds Véra Alexis Dos Santos
Please, Please Me! Aneth Emmanuel Mouret
My Queen Karo Dalia Dorothée Van Den Berghe
2010
Student Services
 		Laura Emmanuelle Bercot
2011 The Monk Valerio / Mathilde Dominik Moll
Memories Corner Ada Servier Audrey Fouché
The Tribulations of a Cashier Solweig Antoniazi Pierre Rambaldi
2012 Zarafa Zarafa Rémi Bezançon & Jean-Christophe Lie English
dub provided by Erica Schroeder
Populaire Rose Pamphyle Régis Roinsard
2013 Going Away Emmanuelle Cambière Nicole Garcia
2014 Maestro Gloria Léa Fazer
2016 The Poisoning Angel Hélène Jégado Stéphanie Pillonca-Kervern
Cézanne and I Marie-Hortense Fiquet Danièle Thompson
My Family Already Adores You! Éva Périné Jérôme Commandeur & Alan Corno
2017 Everyone's Life Jessica Claude Lelouch
Praise Me! Léa Masson Coline Assous & Virginie Schwartz
2018 Territory of Love Maria Romain Cogitore
2019 Never Grow Old Audrey Tate Ivan Kavanagh
Savage State Justine David Perrault
2020 The Paramedic Vanesa François Carles Torras
TBA The Long Teeth Mathilde Jérôme Genevray In Production

Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Work Result
2006 Joseph Plateau Awards Joseph Plateau Award for Best Belgian Actress L'Enfant – The Child Won
César Awards
César Award for Most Promising Actress
 L'Enfant – The Child Nominated
2007 César Awards
César Award for Most Promising Actress
 The Page Turner Nominated
Lumiere Awards
 Lumiere Award for Most Promising Young Actress The Page Turner Nominated
SACD Awards Suzanne Bianchetti Award — Won
2009 Prix Romy Schneider Prix Romy Schneider — Won
César Awards
César Award for Most Promising Actress
 The First Day of the Rest of Your Life Won
2013
Globes de Cristal Award
 Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress Populaire Nominated
Magritte Awards Magritte Award for Best Actress Les Tribulations d'une caissière Nominated
2014 Magritte Award for Best Actress Populaire Nominated
2015 Magritte Award for Best Actress Maestro Nominated

References

  1. ^ a b Bion, Lucille (19 October 2017). "New Wave #4 : Déborah François, caméléon belge". Kombini (in French).
  2. ^ a b "Déborah François". Premiere (in French). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Déborah François, César 2009 du Meilleur Espoir Féminin pour Le premier jour du reste de ta vie". Archived from the original on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016 – via Vimeo.
  4. ^ a b c "Déborah François, no longer in the shadows". Focus on Belgium. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  5. ^ "The New Ingenue: Actress Déborah François". WWD.com. 10 February 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  6. ^ "Llega a cartelera la película francesa La Mecanógrafa". El País (in Spanish). 24 June 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2018.

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