Danièle Thompson
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Daniele Thompson
)Danièle Thompson | |
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Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1966–present |
Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.
She has written
Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. She is half Jewish from her father,[1] and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury.[2]
In 2009, Thompson signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse case[1]
In 2010, she joined Isabelle Adjani, Paul Auster, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Pierre Thiollet and Henri Tisot in signing the petition in support of Roman Polanski when the film director was temporarily arrested by Swiss police at the request of U.S. authorities.[2]
Thompson's son is the actor
Season's Beatings.[3]
Filmography
References
- ^ "Signez la pétition pour Roman Polanski !". La Règle du jeu (in French). 10 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ "Polanski : La pétition". 7 June 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-8386-4046-3. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Danièle Thompson.
- Danièle Thompson at IMDb