Amira Casar
Amira Casar | |
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Born | London, England |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1989–present |
Amira Casar is a French-British actress of Kurdish descent.
Early life
Amira Casar was born in London and was subsequently raised in England, Ireland, and France.[1] She studied drama at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique de Paris between 1991 and 1994.[2] She is fluent in English, Persian, and French and has worked in German, Italian, and Spanish.[citation needed]
Career
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Casar's first role was in the 1989 film Erreur de jeunesse [fr] (Error of Youth) by Radovan Tadic [fr].[3] She played Sandra Benzakhem in the 1997 film La Vérité si je mens !, for which she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress.[4] She later appeared in the film's two sequels, in 2001 and 2012.[5][6]
Casar portrayed Myriem in How I Killed My Father (2001) by Anne Fontaine;[7] Assia Wevill in Sylvia (2003) by Christine Jeffs;[8] the lead role of The Woman in the Catherine Breillat erotic film Anatomy of Hell (2004);[2][9] and Eva in To Paint or Make Love (2005) by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[10]
Other roles include Marianne in Hypnotized and Hysterical (2002),[11] a film by Claude Duty [fr] which won the Grand Golden Rail at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; Malvina van Stille in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by the Brothers Quay (2005);[12] and Marie in Tony Gatlif's Transylvania in 2006.[13]
In 2007, Casar appeared in installation artist Sophie Calle's Venice Biennale piece Prenez soin de vous (Take Care of Yourself).[2]
In 2008, she played Dolorès in Laetitia Masson's Coupable [fr],[14] and portrayed Irene in Werner Schroeter's last film, Nuit de chien.[15] Casar played the lead role of Anna Di Baggio in the Éléonore Faucher film Gamines [fr] in 2009.[16]
She won the Best Actress award at La Rochelle Television Film Festival for her portrayal of Dora Maar in La femme qui pleure au chapeau rouge [fr] in 2010.[17] In 2011, Casar played Irène in Let My People Go ! [fr],[18] and Deniz in Playoff.[19][20] In 2013, she appeared in the Arnaud des Pallières film Michael Kohlhaas,[21][22] and portrayed Anne-Marie Munoz in Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent in 2014.[3]
In 2015, Casar appeared in The Forbidden Room by Canadian director Guy Maddin.[23] and portrayed Béatrice, Madame de Clermont, in the TV series Versailles.[24][25] In 2017, she played Annella Perlman in the film Call Me by Your Name.[26] She also appeared in the 2019 Caroline Fourest film Sisters in Arms, about a team of female Kurdish soldiers and volunteers.[27]
In 2022, Casar appeared in the film The Contractor.[28] She portrayed Edith Frank, the mother of Anne Frank, in the 2023 Disney+ series A Small Light.[28]
On stage, Casar's work includes the Almeida Theatre production of Aunt Dan and Lemon; the title role in Hedda Gabler at Le Petit Théâtre de Paris; and Olivier Py's 2009 production of Les Enfants de Saturne at the Theatre National de L'Odéon, Paris.[citation needed] In 2011, she appeared in the title role of Petra in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,[29][30] and received critical acclaim in Arthur Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher at the Barbican Centre with the London Symphony Orchestra.[31]
Casar also appeared in the 1995 Bryan Adams music video for "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?".[32]
Filmography
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Year | Title | Role | Director |
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1989 | Erreur de jeunesse [fr] | Girl on the train | Radovan Tadic [fr] |
1994 | Le Temps du bonheur (short) | Caroline Champetier | |
1995 | Départ immediat (short) | Woman | Thomas Briat |
Ainsi soient-elles [fr] | Alice | Patrick Alessandrin [fr] | |
1996 | Tiré à part [fr] | Farida | Bernard Rapp |
Mirada liquida | Ana | Rafael Monleon | |
1997 | Marie from the Bay of Angels | Young woman at the villa | Manuel Pradal |
La Vérité si je mens ! | Sandra Benzakhem | Thomas Gilou [fr] | |
1999 | Why Not Me? | Camille | Stéphane Giusti [fr] |
Le Derrière [fr] | Anne-Laure | Valérie Lemercier | |
2000 | Tôt ou tard [fr] | Catherine | Anne-Marie Etienne [fr] |
Le coeur à l'ouvrage | Noëlle | Laurent Dussaux [fr] | |
2001 | Quand on sera grand [fr] | Claire | Renaud Cohen [fr] |
La Vérité si je mens ! 2 [fr] | Sandra Benzakhem | Thomas Gilou [fr] | |
How I Killed My Father | Myriem | Anne Fontaine | |
Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón [fr] | Fatima / Carmen | Carlos Saura | |
2002 | Hypnotized and Hysterical (Hairstylist Wanted) | Marianne | Claude Duty [fr] |
2003 | Un autre homme | Marie | Catherine Klein |
Sylvia | Assia Wevill | Christine Jeffs | |
The Very Merry Widows | Claudia | Catherine Corsini | |
Under Another Sky (Les Chemins de l'oued) | Nadia | Gaël Morel | |
2004 | Toi, vieux [fr] (short) | Ghost | Pierre Coré [fr] |
Rien, voilà l'ordre [fr] | Zelda Mitchell | Jacques Baratier | |
Anatomy of Hell | The Woman | Catherine Breillat | |
2005 | The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes | Malvina van Stille | Brothers Quay |
To Paint or Make Love | Ava | Arnaud Larrieu | |
La cloche a sonné [fr] | Vera | Bruno Herbulot [fr] | |
2006 | Transylvania | Marie | Tony Gatlif |
2007 | The Last Mistress | Mademoiselle Divine des Airelles | Catherine Breillat |
Kandisha | Nyla Jayde | Jérôme Cohen-Olivar | |
Intrusions [fr] | Muriel | Emmanuel Bourdieu | |
2008 | Quelques nouvelles du continent | Alice | Max Jourdan |
Nuit de chien | Irene | Werner Schroeter | |
Made in Italy [fr] | Isabella | Stéphane Giusti [fr] | |
Le Voyage aux Pyrénées [fr] | Socialite journalist | Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu [fr] | |
Coupable [fr] | Dolorès | Laetitia Masson | |
2009 | Oscar et la dame rose [fr] | Mme Gommette | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt |
Gamines [fr] | Anna Di Biaggio | Éléonore Faucher | |
Park Benches | Customer | Bruno Podalydès | |
2010 | Districted Leporello (short) | Woman | Julião Sarmento |
2011 | Playoff | Deniz | Eran Riklis |
Let My People Go ! [fr] | Irène | Mikael Buch [fr] | |
2012 | Michael Kohlhaas | Abbess | Arnaud des Pallières |
La vérité si je mens ! 3 [fr] | Sandra Benzakhem | Thomas Gilou [fr] | |
2013 | Spiritismes [fr] | Guy Maddin | |
2014 | Saint Laurent | Anne-Marie Munoz | Bertrand Bonello |
Not My Type | Marie | Lucas Belvaux | |
2015 | The Last Summer of the Rich | Hanna von Stezewitz | Peter Kern |
The Forbidden Room | Mrs. M____ | Guy Maddin | |
Me and Kaminski | Miriam Kaminski | Wolfgang Becker | |
2016 | Night of 1000 Hours [de] | Renate Bode | Virgil Widrich |
2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Annella Perlman | Luca Guadagnino |
2018 | At Eternity's Gate | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | Julian Schnabel |
2019 | Sisters in Arms | Commander | Caroline Fourest |
Curiosa | Madame de Heredia | Lou Jeunet [fr] | |
2022 | The Contractor | Sophie Mohsin | Tarik Saleh |
2023 | Visions | Yann Gozlan |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996 | Sharpe's Siege | Catherine | TV series, S04E02 |
1997 | Opération Bugs Bunny | Marie-Noëlle | TV movie |
2000 | Arabian Nights | Morgiana | TV miniseries |
2001 | Murder on the Orient Express | Helena von Strauss | TV movie |
2003 | 40 | Kristina | TV miniseries |
The Thibaults [fr] | Rachel | TV miniseries | |
2008 | Les Héritières [fr] | Antonia | TV movie |
2010 | La femme qui pleure au chapeau rouge [fr] | Dora Maar | TV movie |
2015 | Versailles | Béatrice, Madame de Clermont | TV series |
2017 | Tensions sur le Cap Corse [fr] | Gabrielle Monti | TV movie |
2019 | Savages (Les Sauvages) | Daria | TV series |
2023 | A Small Light | Edith Frank | TV miniseries |
Accolades
- 1998 – Nomination: César Award for Most Promising Actress for La Vérité si je mens ![4]
- 2016 – Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters[33]
References
- ^ Gorkow, Alexander (1 December 2006). "AMIRA CASAR - 032c Workshop". 032c. pp. 114–119. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ a b c Média, Prisma (16 September 2014). "Amira Casar, l'élégance audacieuse". Gala (in French). Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Le décor entre imaginaire et réel: trois questions à Amira Casar" (in French). 7 March 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018 – via Saywho.fr.
- ^ a b Mayorga, Emilio (1 April 2016). "Series Mania TV Fest Unveils Jury Members". Variety. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ Nesselson, Lisa (16 February 2001). "Would I Lie To You? 2". Variety. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ Mintzer, Jordan (3 February 2012). "Would I Lie to You 3: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ Schwarzbaum, Lisa (6 September 2002). "How I Killed My Father". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ Scott, A.O. (17 October 2003). "Film Review: A Poet's Death, A Death's Poetry". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (11 November 2004). "Review of Anatomy of Hell". Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: To Paint or Make Love". 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 21 December 2017 – via Festival-cannes.com.
- ^ Nesselson, Lisa (18 May 2002). "Hypnotized and Hysterical, (Hairstylist Wanted)". Variety. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette (17 November 2006). "Film in Review: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Transylvania". 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 1 January 2018 – via Festival-cannes.com.
- ^ "Coupable (2008) – Leatitia Masson". Cinenews.be. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Weissberg, Jay (7 September 2008). "Review: Tonight". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Scheyé, Aurélia (11 December 2009). "Amira Casar: 'Je n'ai pas de vanité dans mon métier". Version Femina (in French). Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Fiction TV Festival La Rochelle 2010: Here is the winners list" (in French). 9 December 2010. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ DeFore, John (28 August 2011). "Let My People Go!: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Harvey, Dennis (31 August 2011). "Playoff". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Mintzer, Jordan (5 July 2012). "Playoff: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Michael Kohlhaas: Festival de Cannes". 2013 Cannes Film Festival. 2 January 2018 – via Festival-cannes.com.
- ^ "Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas". BBC. 2 January 2018.
- ^ Harvey, Dennis (29 September 2015). "Film Review: The Forbidden Room". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Gove, Ed (21 April 2017). "Who's who in Versailles? A guide to the French court". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
- ^ Deen, Sarah (11 August 2016). "This is what the stars of BBC's Versailles look like when they're not in costume". Metro. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^ "Berlinale: Archive: Annual Archives: 2017: Programme – Call Me by Your Name". Berlin International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
- ^ Keslassy, Elsa (11 January 2018). "Rising Stars Topline French Debut Feature About Female Kurdish Warriors". Variety. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ a b Petski, Denise (10 June 2022). "A Small Light: Amira Casar, Billie Boullet & Ashley Brooke Join Disney+ Limited Series". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ "Les larmes amères.... Un maelström passionnel". Le Télégramme. 1 October 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Les Larmes Ameres de Petra von Kant" (PDF) (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018 – via la-coursive.com.
- ^ Dreyfus, Alain (10 March 2012). "J'ai fait surgir des fantômes avec Amira Casar" (in French). Lesinrock.com. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Amira Casar". TV Guide. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres janvier 2016" (in French). Ministère de la Culture. 31 March 2016. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via culturecommunication.gouv.fr.
External links
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- Amira Casar at IMDb