Cécile Bois
Also Known As: Сесиль Буа
Biography: Cécile Bois is a French actress. She grew up in Lormont, Gironde. While at school, Bois joined an amateur theatre troupe. The following year, she entered the Conservatoire de Bordeaux which she subsequently left to join another theatre group named "Le théâtre en vrac". At age 19, Bois moved to Paris and began training at l'École de la rue Blanche. At this time, she met her future agent Chafika. Bois worked as a stage actor, on films such as Germinal and on television programmes such as Navarro. She auditioned for the role of Angélique in Robert Hossein's 1995 play, based on the novels by Anne Golon, and subsequently performed 130 times at the Palais des Sports. Bois starred in films such as Dakan, Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments, Lucky Punch, le montreur de boxe, and Le roi danse, but she has played greater roles on television. She starred as the female lead in Agathe contre Agathe in 2007; in 2010, she acted alongside Bruno Wolkowitch and Florence Pernel in the television film Le Désamour, which was directed by Daniel Janneau for France 3. From 2013, she played the title role in the France 2 series Candice Renoir. Bois played the lead role in the television drama series Gloria, a French remake of the 2017 British series Keeping Faith, released on 17 February 2022. As of 2018, Bois had been in a relationship with fellow actor Jean-Pierre Michaël, with whom she has two daughters, for several years. Source: Article "Cécile Bois" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Talence, Gironde, France
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Birthday: December 26, 1971
Age: 53 years old
Gender: Female
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Agathe contre Agathe
Overview: Agathe is turning 30 and has finished her thesis on secret societies in France. A young woman is found dead in the Seine, murdered for a specific ritual. She is an image of Agathe, has the same first name and is similarly dressed. The traces lead to one of the secret societies this included in Agathe's study.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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One Step Behind You
Overview: Anne's ex-husband, a corrupt policeman, breaks one night in this house, in violation of a restraining order. During the discussion, the man accidentally falls down the stairs and dies instantly. But when the police show at home, the body is gone and Anne proves to be the prime suspect in the mysterious disappearance of her ex-husband.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-01
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A Place Among the Living
Overview: A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-28
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The High Life
Overview: On a hospital bed, Marcello is plunged into a deep coma. His guardian angel asks the angel in charge of bringing him back to the afterlife to extend the contract of his protégé.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-11-28
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Summer Strolls
Overview: When a group of student actors travel to a workshop in Dordogne to put on a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It as a summer project, they are as lively and high-spirited a group as one could ask for. While they are there, the young man who has the leading role begins casting cow eyes at the director's wife (Valerie Stroh), and soon she and the boy are having an affair. By the end of the summer, the wife is sufficiently charmed to wonder how she could have gotten into this situation where she deeply loves both men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-11
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Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments
Overview: A former schoolteacher turned film distributor, Jean-Pierre Jackson made his directorial debut with this French comedy about two losers. When alimony payments catch up with Felix (Philippe Chevaillier), his furniture is seized. After a decade-long marriage, Raoul (Regis Laspales) leaves his wife. The two team for a job with Le Gai Vendangeur (The Jolly Vintner) as sales reps, but they score zero while tooling around Brittany in a silly station wagon decorated with an immense wine bottle atop the vehicle's roof. However, when they're joined by friendly, sexy Eliane (Cecile Bois), sales surge. The wine pours, and so does the money. Life is sweet, but it all turns sour when an affair begins between Felix and Eliane, much to Raoul's regret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-01
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Lucky Punch
Overview: Corruption on the boxing circuit at the turn of the century provides the basis of this French drama. The story centers on a talented young fighter, a logger that Abel Ginoux and his Italian partner Zipolino, a crooked doctor, discover during a fight in a woodland town. The logger, Passe Partout, is in a fight with Ginoux's best fighter and ends up accidentally killing the pugilist. Ever the opportunist, Ginoux lures Partout into the ring to replace the late fighter. Partout proves to be the classic provincial innocent with high, rugged ideals and little knowledge about the modern world. Ginoux takes him to town for the first time and the logger is delighted to discover amenities such as electricity and silent films. He soon falls in love with the beauteous Camille who works in her late father's cafe with her mother. Her father made many of the films, most of which are boxing matches, because he believed that the presence of a camera rendered a fight unfixable.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-07-24
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Richelieu: The Purple and the Blood
Overview: In the Kingdom of France from 1640 is the old with his body ailing Cardinal Richelieu, powerful man under Louis XIII, faced with the machinations of his tipped designated successor, the Marquis de Cinq-Mars.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-03-11
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Becoming Colette
Overview: French writer recalls her start as the country wife of a Paris publisher who called her erotic work his own.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-17
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Merci patron !
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-27
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Signalements
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-20
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The King Is Dancing
Overview: Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-06
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Alexina's House
Overview: In the 60s, five young teenagers find themselves on the bangs of the school system because of their family history. They are placed in a remedial class with Monsieur Raffin, a teacher who has himself fallen from the hierarchy of the French education system.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-06-11
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Le Goût du crime
Overview: A former starred chef, Laure Grenadier now devotes herself to her activities as a food critic for the channel she created on the Internet. She is also careful to keep her distance from her ex and father of her daughter Amandine, the police captain Nicolas Garnier as Laure has not digested the fact that he left her for a younger woman. However, when a wave of crimes strikes the restaurant owners of Lyon, Laure's resolutions are shattered. Nicolas and his new assistant Baptiste understand that Laure's position in the very closed world of Lyon's restaurant industry and the respect she inspires in the regional chefs are invaluable assets for their investigation. Emotionally involved - her uncle is the first victim - Laure lets herself be convinced to serve as their informant.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-15
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The Place of Another
Overview: Thomas is an up-and-coming actor. His proud and loving father is watching him in a Shakespeare performance. Not long afterwards, his father dies, Thomas accidentally kills a bicyclist with his car, his girlfriend leaves him, and he develops a disorder of the inner ear. As a consequence of these and other misfortunes, he becomes depressed, attempts suicide, and has a psychotic break which lands him in a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-17
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Me Against The World
Overview: Audrey is an unemployed single mother who lives with her 16-year-old son, Enzo. All is going well for Enzo, a bright kid who loves sports, until he takes a medical drug and is suddenly faced with a critical illness. Even though Audrey has never been a fighter, she discovers a new strength and embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about what happened with the help of pro-bono lawyer Master Tcheuffa.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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Destiny
Overview: Though gay-themed stories about "coming out" and accepting one's sexuality are not uncommon in Western countries, such tales are still rare in many conservative African nations. Considered a ground-breaking film in its native Guinea, and filmed amidst a storm of controversy, Mohamed Camara's Dakan is the first of its nations films to directly address issues surrounding homosexuality. The story centers on the romance between two 20-year-old men, Manga and Sory who are first seen making out in a car. The trouble begins when Manga tells his widowed mother about his love for Sory, who is busy contending with his outraged father. The parents insist that the two never see each other again. Manga's mother then uses witchcraft to cleanse her son and change him into a heterosexual. Time passes and eventually Manga begins to date a girl. But it soon becomes apparent that try as he might, Manga's heart belongs to Sory.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-27
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Le Roman de Lulu
Overview: Roman has two problems: First problem: he is twice the age of Lulu. Second problem: it is not at all a problem for Lulu.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-04-18
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La vie à une
Overview: When she asks for a divorce, Elisa knows she's losing everything that made her daily life during ten years of marriage. The worst is that she may lose her children, claimed by her husband. She had only few months to rebuild. Find a job. Prove to the judge she can hold her family... A rebuilding that leads her to push her own limits, to put herself in danger, to learn how to trust people again and to discover a new herself... and, eventually, to fall in love again.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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Examen de conscience
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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Aveugle mais pas trop
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-14
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Germinal
Overview: It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-29
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Le chasseur de la nuit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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The Poisoner
Overview: Loudun, October 1947. Leon Besnard and Marie celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary with friends and Ady, a former German prisoner they have "adopted". A few days later, Leon dies. Louise, a friend of the couple's and probably Leon's mistress claims that, on his deathbed, the deceased told her that Marie was poisoning him. The whole town soon condemns Marie and she is arrested and sent to jail. Did she really kill Léon as well as twelve other members of her family as she finds herself charged with?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-03
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Candice Renoir - Ailleurs l'herbe est plus verte
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-17
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