Jewish French actresses

The list Jewish French actresses includes Eva Green, Mélanie Laurent, Nora Arnezeder, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Valérie Quennessen. The list consists of 41 members.

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Eva Green

French actress (born 1980)

Overview: Eva Gaëlle Green (born 6 July 1980) is a French actress. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003) ...

Date of birth: 6 July 1980

Age: 44

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Jobert family 4T

French secular Jews 8T

Lycée Fénelon Sainte-Marie alumni 10T
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Mélanie Laurent

French actress

Overview: Mélanie Laurent ( born 21 February 1983) is a French actress, filmmaker, singer, and pianist. The recipient of two César Awards and a Lumières Award, she has established herself as an accomplished actress ...

Date of birth: 21 February 1983

Age: 41

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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French Ashkenazi Jews 21T

French Sephardi Jews 48T

Most Promising Actress César Award winners 39T
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Joséphine Jobert

French actress and singer

Overview: Joséphine Jobert (born 24 April 1985) is a French actress and singer. She is best known for playing Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in the BBC One series Death in Paradise (2015–2022).

Date of birth: 24 April 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Black French actors 46T

French Sephardi Jews 72T

Actresses from Montreal 266T
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Nora Arnezeder

French actress and singer

Overview: Nora Arnezeder (born 8 May 1989) is a French actress and singer. The recipient of a Lumières Award, she is an accomplished actress and musician in the French film industry, as well as worldwide.

Date of birth: 8 May 1989

Age: 35

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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21st-century French Jews 55T

French Sephardi Jews 72T

21st-century French singers 420T
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Marlène Jobert

French, Actress

Overview: Marlène Jobert (born 4 November 1943) is a French actress and author.

Date of birth: 17 November 1943

Age: 80

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Walter Green (Married)

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Jobert family 4T

20th-century French Sephardi Jews 63T

Actors from Algiers 20T
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Charlotte Gainsbourg

Actress

Overview: Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg ( born 21 July 1971) is a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French musician Serge Gainsbourg. After making her musical ...

Date of birth: 21 July 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Yvan Attal (Engaged)

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Best Actress Bodil Award winners 32T

Because Music artists 70T

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners 98T
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Valérie Quennessen

French actor

Overview: Valérie Quennessen (3 December 1957 – 19 March 1989) was a French theatre and film actress.

Date of birth: 3 December 1957

Date of death: 15 March 1989

Age: 31 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni 172T

Actresses from Paris 493T

Jewish actresses 157T
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Emmanuelle Béart

French actress

Overview: Emmanuelle Béart (born 14 August 1963) is a French film actress, who has appeared in over 60 film and television productions since 1972. An eight-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best ...

Date of birth: 14 August 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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20th-century French Sephardi Jews 56T

French Sephardi Jews 69T

French people of Lebanese-Jewish descent 4T
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Mathilda May

French actress

Overview: Mathilda May (born Karin Haïm; 8 February 1965) is a French film actress. Her most well known roles include portraying Space Girl in Lifeforce (1985) and Jeanne Gardella in Toutes peines confondues (1992) ...

Date of birth: 8 February 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: Sly Johnson (Married)

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21st-century French Sephardi Jews 17T

20th-century French Sephardi Jews 62T

French Sephardi Jews 72T
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Anouk Aimée

French, Actress

Overview: Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (27 April 1932 – 18 June 2024), known professionally as Anouk Aimée () or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019. Having begun ...

Date of birth: 27 April 1932

Date of death: 18 June 2024

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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2024 deaths 3,913T

César Honorary Award recipients 91T

Honorary Golden Bear recipients 42T
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Gaia Weiss

French model and actress

Overview: Gaia Weiss (born 30 August 1991) is a French model and actress. Her filmography includes Mary Queen of Scots (2013), Vikings (2014–2015), Meander (2020), La Révolution (2020), and Shepherd (2021).

Date of birth: 30 August 1991

Age: 33

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

Partner: Dori Sadovnik (Dating)

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French Ashkenazi Jews 37T

Actresses from Paris 535T

21st-century French actresses 580T
12.

Anna Held

Broadway stage performer (1872–1918)

Overview: Anna Held (19 March 1872 – 12 August 1918) was a Polish-born stage performer and singer on Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America ...

Date of birth: 8 March 1872

Date of death: 12 August 1918

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Performance Artist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)

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19th-century women singers 504T

19th-century French singers 159T

19th-century French actresses 80T
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Sarah Bernhardt

Actress

Overview: Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th c ...

Date of birth: 22 October 1844

Date of death: 26 March 1923

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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20th-century theatre managers 40T

19th-century theatre managers 129T

Actresses of Dutch descent 51T
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Estelle Lefébure

French actor and model

Overview: Estelle Lefébure (born 11 May 1966) is a French actress and model. She was one of the top fashion models in the 1980s and 1990s. Estelle Lefebure, as she was known in the early 1980s, was discovered by ...

Date of birth: 11 May 1966

Age: 58

Nationality: French

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

Partner: Pascal Ramette (Engaged)

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Jewish female models 81T

21st-century French actresses 558T

French film actresses 1,260T
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Julie Dreyfus

French actor

Overview: Julie Dreyfus (born 24 January 1966) is a French actress who is well known in Japan where she made her television debut on a French language lesson program on NHK's educational channel in the late 1980s ...

Date of birth: 24 January 1966

Age: 58

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Actresses from Paris 384T

21st-century French actresses 504T

20th-century French actresses 730T
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Elsa Lunghini

French actor and singer

Overview: Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa (born 20 May 1973), is a French singer and actress. She was a teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French ...

Date of birth: 20 May 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: French

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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21st-century French women singers 199T

21st-century women singers 8,493T

21st-century French singers 404T
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Aure Atika

French actress, writer and director

Overview: Aure Atika (born 12 July 1970) is a French actress, writer and director.

Date of birth: 12 July 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Jewish Portuguese actresses 2T

French people of Portuguese-Jewish descent 13T

Portuguese people of Moroccan-Jewish descent 3T
18.

Estelle Skornik

French actress

Overview: Estelle Skornik (born 4 July 1971 in Paris) is a French actress, known in the United Kingdom for playing "Nicole" alongside Max Douchin ("Papa") in a range of Renault Clio advertisements.

Date of birth: 4 July 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Paris 480T

French stage actresses 607T

French television actresses 550T
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Elsa Zylberstein

French actress (born 1968)

Overview: Elsa Zylberstein (born 16 October 1968) is a French film, TV, and stage actress. After studying drama, Zylberstein began her film career in 1989, and has appeared in more than 60 films. She won the César ...

Date of birth: 16 October 1968

Age: 55

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Partner: Nicolas Bedos (Long-Term)

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Alumni of the Cours Florent 125T

Jewish actresses 145T

21st-century French actresses 504T
20.

Myriam Bru

French actor

Overview: Myriam Bru (born 20 April 1932, Paris) is a French retired actress and the wife of German actor Horst Buchholz, to whom she was married from 1958 until his death in 2003. She appeared in 16 films between ...

Date of birth: 20 April 1932

Age: 92

Nationality: French

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Paris 384T

20th-century French actresses 730T

French film actresses 1,170T