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Marilou Berry

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Marilou Berry · Arts & Literature

What

Actrice révélée par Comme une image, puis réalisatrice de comédies populaires

When

1er février 1983

Where

Paris (France)

Biography

Marilou Berry is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Actrice révélée par Comme une image, puis réalisatrice de comédies populaires

How & why

Origins and early life

Marilou Berry was born in the thirteenth arrondissement of Paris on 1 February 1983, the daughter of the sculptor Philippe Berry, born Benguigui into a Jewish family of Oran in French Algeria, and of the actress and director Josiane Balasko, who is of Yugoslav descent and not Jewish; her uncle is the actor Richard Berry. Her inclusion here rests on that documented paternal line, not on a name, and she has not made her Jewish descent a public subject.

She was twenty-one when Agnès Jaoui cast her in Comme une image in 2004 as Lolita, the overlooked daughter of a celebrated writer, a performance that took the film to Cannes and brought Berry a César nomination as most promising actress.

Work and career

She turned afterwards to popular comedy, in Vilaine, Joséphine and their sequels, becoming one of the reliable comic leads of French cinema in the 2010s. She moved behind the camera with Joséphine s'arrondit in 2016 and Quand on crie au loup in 2019, and she has worked on stage and in television as well.

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Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou_Berry

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Actrice révélée par Comme une image, puis réalisatrice de comédies populaires

2004

Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou_Berry