Jeanne Balibar

Jeanne Balibar is a French actress and singer who trained at a French academy for young actors in Paris, passing a very difficult exam before she had appeared in any play or film. She then joined La Comédie Française and played Elvire in Molière's Don Juan at the Avignon festival, where French critics and audiences acclaimed her. She moved into French cinema with directors including Arnaud Desplechin and Olivier Assayas, winning a best actress award at the Spanish movie festival of San Sebastian for Last August, Early September. Comedies such as Ca ira mieux demain brought her wider fame, and Rivette's Who Knows (2001), in which she took over the lead role of Camille from Emmanuelle Béart, established her as a respected actress. She also acted in Winterbottom's Code 46 (2003) and Assayas's Clean, and began singing in 2003 with the record Paramour.