Emmanuelle Seigner
Also Known As: Emanuelle Seigner, امانوئل سینیه
Biography: Emmanuelle Seigner (born 22 June 1966) is a French actress and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Venus in Fur (2013), and for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Place Vendôme (1998) and La Vie En Rose (2007). She has been married to Polish film director Roman Polanski since 1989. Seigner is the daughter of Jean-Louis Seigner (1941-2020), photographer, and Aline Ponelle, journalist. She is the older sister of Mathilde Seigner, actress, and Marie-Amélie Seigner, singer. Through their father, they are the granddaughters of the actor Louis Seigner (1903-1991) and the nieces of the actress Françoise Seigner (1928-2008), both deans and members of the Comédie-Française. She is the niece of doctor Véronique Vasseur. She was educated at a Catholic convent school, and began modelling at the age of fourteen. Her husband directed her in Frantic (1988), Bitter Moon (1992), The Ninth Gate (1999), Venus in Fur (2013), Based On A True Story (2017) and An Officer and a Spy (2019). In 2010, Seigner was featured in Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing, which went on to win the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In 2012, she played the principal role of Vanda in Polanski's French film adaptation of David Ives's two-character play Venus in Fur, based on the Austrian novel of the near-same name, for which she received praise as Vanda, an actress, playing against writer and theatre director Thomas played by Mathieu Amalric. Seigner appears as the main character in the music video "Hands Around My Throat" by Death in Vegas. In 2006, she became the lead singer of the pop rock band Ultra Orange, and the group's name was changed to Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle. They released a self-titled album in 2007. Seigner released a solo album called Distant Lover in 2014. From 2008, she was an ambassadress of the Polish brand Dr Irena Eris. Seigner married Roman Polanski on August 30, 1989 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. They have two children, Morgane (born in 1993) and Elvis (born in 1998). She and Polanski live with their two children in Paris. Source: Article "Emmanuelle Seigner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Birthday: June 22, 1966
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Female
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La Vie en Rose
Overview: From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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The Ninth Gate
Overview: A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-25
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Pet Shop Days
Overview: In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in New York City where he meets Jack, a college age pet store employee with similar parental baggage. Together the two enter a whirlwind romance sending them down the rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. When Alejandro’s past threatens to catch up with him, Jack is forced to choose between his family and a life on the run.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-03
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Overview: The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Frantic
Overview: The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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Bitter Moon
Overview: A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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Place Vendôme
Overview: The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-07
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The Gods Must Be Daring
Overview: A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-04-30
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Giallo
Overview: In Italy, a woman fears her sister has been kidnapped; Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
Genres: Crime Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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Happily Ever After
Overview: Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-25
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Change of Plans
Overview: So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-18
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Body to Body
Overview: Laura Bartelli is a stripper in a French bar. She retires after a moody landscape architect named Marco Tisserand asks her to abandon her life and share his. However, after her red Volkswagen runs off the road en route to the rendezvous, she ends up scarred and comatose in a hospital. Marco stays at her bedside.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-22
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Le Sourire
Overview: An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-08-17
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Essential Killing
Overview: A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-06
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The Immortals
Overview: Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-11-07
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Chicas
Overview: Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-10
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Lou Reed's Berlin
Overview: Lou Reed recorded the album Berlin in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years, he never performed the album live. For five nights in December 2006 at St. Ann's Warehouse Brooklyn, Lou Reed performed his masterwork about love's dark sisters: jealousy, rage and loss.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-04
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Detective
Overview: Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-23
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Backstage
Overview: An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine as, with near-operatic intensity, the film delves into the emotional dependency on both sides of celebrity culture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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RPM
Overview: A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-23
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A Few Hours of Spring
Overview: Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last months of her life, will they finally be capable of taking a step toward each other?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-19
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In the House
Overview: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-26
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Buddy Boy
Overview: An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-24
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The Man Who Laughs
Overview: During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has become a famous star, but his success threatens his relationships with Déa and Ursus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-26
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Streghe verso nord
Overview: In a world parallel to ours, things and people have supernatural powers. Witches exist, they are beautiful and attractive and try to do their 'work' to the fullest.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-11-15
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Venus in Fur
Overview: An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-05-28
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Dark Illness
Overview: After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-02-22
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Hotel Laguna
Overview: Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-15
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Private Tuition
Overview: Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing her of lewd and immoral conduct. Matters take a turn for the worse when a photograph of an orgy is sent to all the faculty with one face cut out; presumably, the face is hers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-12
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Four Last Songs
Overview: A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-11
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Bungalow 21
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-03-26
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Heal the Living
Overview: The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-01
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Based on a True Story
Overview: Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place, paralyzed by the idea of having to start writing again, she meets Elle, a young, attractive, intelligent, intuitive woman who seems to understand her better than anyone.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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The Siege of Jadotville
Overview: Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-19
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Stalin's Couch
Overview: Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-13
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Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Overview: A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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At Eternity's Gate
Overview: Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-15
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The King of Ads
Overview: A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out
Overview: A follow-up to the 2008 documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired", focusing on the filmmaker's successful battle to avoid extradition in to the U.S. in 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-09
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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Overview: An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-09
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An Officer and a Spy
Overview: In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-30
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Let's Hope It Lasts
Overview: Joseph and Victor are two motorcyclists of the national police force and inseparable friends. If the first leads a tidy life with wife and child, the second, single, is always in search of a soul mate - And one day he finds her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-02-07
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Nirvana
Overview: Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-01-24
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Hedda Gabler
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-04
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Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre
Overview: A French adaptation of Tankred Dorst's play "Fernando Krapp hat mir diesen Brief geschrieben", staged by Bernard Murat.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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