MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Belgian nationality
Birth May 24, 1987 (Liège – Belgium)
BIOGRAPHY
Daughter of a police officer and a social worker, Déborah François was cast for L’Enfant by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne while she was still a high school student. The Belgian brothers, who have already discovered a number of actors, from Jérémie Renier to Emilie Dequenne via Olivier Gourmet , choose her to play Sonia, a young mother who revolts when her partner decides to sell their baby. At Cannes, where the film won the Palme d’Or in 2005, we saluted the accuracy and sensitivity of the actress.
Déborah François returned to the Croisette in 2006 for the presentation of La Tourneuse de pages by Denis Dercourt in the Un Certain Regard section. A thousand miles from her rough composition with the Dardennes, she proves just as convincing as a manipulative young woman opposite Catherine Frot . Without neglecting Belgian directors ( The Red Fourmis by Stephan Carpiaux ), she is increasingly in demand in France, both from the authors’ side ( L’Été indienne by Alain Raoust ) and from big-show cinema: she is, alongside Sophie Marceau and Julie Depardieu , one of the Shadow Women in the fresco on Feminine Resistance by Jean-Paul Salomé (2008).
In 2008, she received the César for Most Promising Actress for her role in The First Day of the Rest of Your Life by Rémi Bezançon . She plays a somewhat lost teenager in a family led by Jacques Gamblin and Zabou Breitman . After a stint on the small screen (the series Ah, c’est ça la vie! and Emmanuelle Bercot ‘s TV film , My Dear Studies ), she went international by playing young adults in search of herself for Argentinian Alexis Dos Santos in London Nights . We find her in 2011 in The Monk , the adaptation of the gothic novel by Matthew G. Lewis by Dominik Moll . She plays a mysterious character who shakes the convictions of Vincent Cassel .
A typing prodigy in Populaire , pretty Gloria in Maestro or Hortense Cézanne in Cézanne et moi , the actress also plays the daughter of aThierry Lhermitte joker in the mainstream comedy My Family Already Adore You . In 2017, she joined a less light register via Fleur de tonnerre which tells the true story of a poisoner who raged in the 1800s in Brittany.
