21st-century French women writers

The list 21st-century French women writers includes Mélissa Theuriau, Raffaëla Anderson, Mélanie Coste, Nina Roberts and Céline Bara. The list consists of 438 members and 1 sublist.

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Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and actress (born 1984)

Overview: Avril Ramona Lavigne ( AV-ril lə-VEEN; born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is considered a key musician in the development of pop-punk music, as she paved the way for fem ...

Date of birth: 27 September 1984

Age: 40

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)

Partner: Nate Smith (Dating)

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21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters 590T

Canadian women fashion designers 35T

French women fashion designers 92T
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Mélissa Theuriau

French journalist and news anchor for M6 (born 1978)

Overview: Mélissa Theuriau (born July 18, 1978) is a French journalist and news anchor for M6. She studied journalism and became a television news presenter. She is the former anchor and co-editor in chief of Zone ...

Date of birth: 18 July 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: French

Occupation: TV News

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Jamel Debbouze (Married)

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French women television presenters 91T

Women television presenters 1,278T

Women television journalists 526T
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Françoise Hardy

French, Singer

Overview: Françoise Madeleine Hardy (17 January 1944-11 June 2024) was a French singer-songwriter and actress. Mainly known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads, Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s ...

Date of birth: 17 January 1944

Date of death: 11 June 2024

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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2024 deaths 3,781T

Vogue Schallplatten artists 15T

Italian-language singers of France 7T
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Kalki Koechlin

Indian actor

Overview: Kalki Koechlin ( ; born 10 January 1984) is an actress and writer. Known for her unconventional body of work in the Hindi film industry, she is the recipient of such accolades as a National Film Award ...

Date of birth: 10 January 1984

Age: 40

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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21st-century screenwriters 214T

Screenwriters from Puducherry 2T

Special Jury Award (feature film) National Film Award winners 39T
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Nicole Calfan

Actor

Overview: Nicole Calfan (born 4 March 1947) is a French actress and author.

Date of birth: 4 March 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century French non-fiction writers 418T

21st-century French non-fiction writers 218T

20th-century French women writers 452T
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Casey Legler

Olympic swimmer

Overview: Casey Legler (born 26 April 1977) is a French-American writer, restaurateur, model, and former Olympic swimmer.

Date of birth: 26 April 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: French

Occupation: Swimming

Gender: Female

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French women memoirists 58T

French female swimmers 136T

French-language LGBT writers 146T
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Céline Sciamma

French director and screenwriter

Overview: Céline Sciamma (born 12 November 1978) is a French screenwriter and film director. A common theme in Sciamma's films is the fluidity of gender and sexual identity among girls and women.

Date of birth: 12 November 1978

Age: 45

Nationality: French

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

Partner: Adèle Haenel (Dating)

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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay winners 53T

French lesbian writers 23T

LGBT film directors 581T
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Marie-France Boyer

French actress and singer

Overview: Marie-France Boyer (born 22 April 1938 in Marseille) is a French actress, singer and the author of many internationally published non-fiction books on France. She appeared from 1959 until 1976 in more ...

Date of birth: 22 April 1938

Age: 86

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century French non-fiction writers 432T

21st-century French non-fiction writers 227T

20th-century French women writers 479T
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Agnès Jaoui

French actress, screenwriter and singer

Overview: Agnès Jaoui (born 19 October 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer.

Date of birth: 19 October 1964

Age: 59

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Partner: Jean-Pierre Bacri (Married)

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21st-century French screenwriters 6T

European Film Award for Best Screenwriter winners 34T

20th-century French screenwriters 287T
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Brigitte Fontaine

French singer and writer

Overview: Brigitte Fontaine, (born June 24, 1939) is a singer of avant-garde music. She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry, and world ...

Date of birth: 24 June 1939

Age: 85

Nationality: French

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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20th-century French women singers 185T

21st-century French women singers 199T

21st-century women singers 8,493T
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Anne Wiazemsky

French actor

Overview: Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist. Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of novelist and dramatist François Mauriac. She made her cinema debut at the ...

Date of birth: 14 May 1947

Date of death: 5 October 2017

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Prix Renaudot des lycéens winners 17T

Prix Jean Freustié winners 20T

Prix Goncourt des lycéens winners 29T
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Amanda Sthers

French screenwriter, writer and playwright

Overview: Amanda Queffélec-Maruani (born April 18, 1978), known professionally as Amanda Sthers, is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.

Date of birth: 18 April 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Partner: Sinclair (Long-Term)

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21st-century screenwriters 214T

21st-century French dramatists and playwrights 53T

French women dramatists and playwrights 61T
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Lizzy Mercier Descloux

French singer

Overview: Martine-Elisabeth "Lizzy" Mercier Descloux (16 December 1956 – 20 April 2004) was a French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter.

Date of birth: 16 December 1956

Date of death: 20 April 2004

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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Musicians from Lyon 84T

20th-century French non-fiction writers 459T

20th-century French women singers 228T
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Blanche Gardin

French actress, comedian and writer

Overview: Blanche Gardin (born 3 April 1977) is a French actress, comedian and writer.

Date of birth: 3 April 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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21st-century French actresses 504T

French stage actresses 558T

French television actresses 507T
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Anne Sinclair

French journalist

Overview: Anne Sinclair (born Anne-Élise Schwartz, 15 July 1948) is an American-born French television and radio interviewer. She hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1 ...

Date of birth: 15 July 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: French

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

Partner: Pierre Nora (Long-Term)

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American women columnists 383T

People from Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) 86T

Paris Match writers 20T
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Sophie Thalmann

French model

Overview: Sophie Thalmann (born 7 May 1976) is a French former beauty queen, model and television presenter. She was titled Miss Lorraine in 1997 and Miss France in 1998. She is the 68th Miss France.

Date of birth: 7 May 1976

Age: 48

Nationality: French

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

Partner: Christophe Soumillon (Married)

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French women television presenters 89T

21st-century French non-fiction writers 218T

Women television presenters 1,277T
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Violette Verdy

French ballet dancer

Overview: Violette Verdy (born Nelly Armande Guillerm; 1 December 1933 – 8 February 2016) was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet ...

Date of birth: 1 December 1933

Date of death: 8 February 2016

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

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French women children's writers 53T

People from Pont-l'Abbé 12T

20th-century French women writers 452T
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Emmanuelle Arsan

Thai-French novelist (1932–2005)

Overview: Marayat Rollet-Andriane, formerly Marayat Krasaesin (Thai: มารยาท กระแสสินธุ์) or her birthname Marayat Bibidh (Thai: มารยาท พิพิธ; Marayat Phiphit; born 19 January 1932 – 12 June 2005), known by the pen ...

Date of birth: 19 January 1932

Date of death: 12 June 2005

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Writers from Bangkok 7T

21st-century pseudonymous writers 523T

20th-century pseudonymous writers 1,136T
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Marjane Satrapi

Artist

Overview: Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی‎) (born 22 November 1969) is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her most famous works ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1969

Age: 54

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Partner: Mattias Ripa (Married)

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Iranian graphic novelists 1T

20th-century Iranian artists 3T

21st-century Iranian artists 4T
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Amandine Petit

French, Model

Overview: Amandine Petit (born 30 September 1997) is a French model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2021. She had previously been crowned Miss Normandy 2020, and is the seventh woman from ...

Date of birth: 30 September 1997

Age: 27

Nationality: French

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Mass media people from Caen 7T

Writers from Caen 42T

People from Bourguébus 1T