MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Director , Screenwriter more
French nationality
Birth September 9, 1976 (Paris – France)
BIOGRAPHY
Emma de Caunes is the daughter of Antoine de Caunes, television presenter then actor and director. She comes from a line of entertainment people, she naturally gravitates towards comedy. It was Sylvie Verheyde who in 1997 with A Brother gave him his first major role. her performance earned her the César for Most Promising Actress. The same year, two more comical films were released: The Way is Clear and Let’s Stay Grouped .
In 1998, she filmed Mille Bornes by Alain Beigel but above all it was the opportunity for her to direct Le nombril de l’univers, her first short film. In 1999, she reunited with Sylvie Verheyde for Princesses . The same year, she played under the direction of Olivier Jahan for Pretend I Was Not There . If she appeared in 2002 in the French super production Astérix & Obélix: mission Cléopâtre , directed by Alain Chabat , she especially seemed to be oriented towards auteur cinema, from Lovers of the Nil to the disturbing My mother (2003), adaptation of Bataille by Christophe Honoré , as well as The Science of Dreams (2005) by Michel Gondry .
We then find her in several very different films where she plays a supporting role: Mr. Bean’s Vacation (2007), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (id.) or even Coluche, the story of a guy (2008) directed by Antoine de Caunes. The actress is also the heroine of a television series, Rien dans les pockets , alongside many well-known actors including Nicolas Duvauchelle and Pio Marmaï . She continued for television with the TV films Sweet Dream , Faux Guilty and Lanester . In 2014, Emma de Caunes returned to the cinema in the captivating and mysterious La Dune , alongside big names like Niels Arestrup and Guy Marchand . The following year, Olivier Jahan offered her one of her finest roles in his drama Les Châteaux de sable , that of a broken woman who, following the death of her father, must sell the family home.
