Amira Casar

Amira Casar is an actress born on July 1st 1971 with London, of a Russian mother singer of opera and of a father of Kurdish origin.

Biography

With origins Kurdish, Irish and Russian, Amira Casar is discovered, at 14 years, by the photographer Helmut Newton, on a beach of the Riviera. It poses for Vogue and Vanity Fair and works like mannequin for Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel and Helmut Lang. Turning to the comedy, it integrates the Florent Course in 1989, in particular with Raymond Acquaviva which puts it in scene in Hedda Gabler d' Ibsen. Starting from 1991, it supplements its formation with the Academy, with for professors Catherine Hiegel and Philippe Adrien.

After a first appearance with the cinema in 1989 in “ Mistake of youth ”, Amira Casar incarnates one of the young girls in flowers of “ Ainsi are ” in 1996. The following year, public the remark in “ the Truth if I lie! ” Its role of wife of Richard Anconina is worth a nomination with the to him César of the best most promising young actress - in 2001, it will take part following this comedy in success. One then finds this brown with the sophisticated beauty and the serious voice in several films with provocative humor one nothing, like “ Why not me? ”, “ the Heart with the work ” or “ lost Girls, fatty hair ” in 2002.

Giving free course to its imagination in “ When one is tall ” and “ the Bell sounded”, Amira Casar deploys a turbid sensuality in the very personal universes of Anne Fontaine and Catherine Breillat. In 2004, it has as a partner Rocco Siffredi in “ Anatomie of the hell ” and works with the Larrieu brothers in “ Peindre or to make love ”, 2005

Anecdotes

what she likes: the opera, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, the movement Punk and Gothic, the group Siouxsie and the Banshees, the singers David Bowie, Patti Smith and Iggy Pop, Paris (where she saw) and the Jardin of the Palais Royal, Naples, the district of East London to London, fashion designers Nicolas Ghesquière (director artistic of Balenciaga), Karl Lagerfeld, Japanese creators Rei Kawabuko and Junya Watanabe , the costume in its functions history and sociological, the actresses androgynes Katharine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman, the world of the Pirate S (it collects the death's-heads), the time Renaissance, the Musée Jacquemart-Andre for his collections of Italian art and in particular Ucello, the Renaissance department of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She likes also the dishes containing tripe and the jewels of the sculptrice Annabelle Huart.
Its book of bedside: the Post office of the street Dupin collection of talks between Marguerite Duras and François Mitterrand during the Resistance.
what she hates: the Cynicism, the Varnishing S, the Familiarity, the Chattering society man ( small talk ), architecture hausmanienne.

Catalog of films

1989 Mistake of youth (credited like Amira Zanganeh) of Radovan Tadic: the girl in the subway
1994 the Time of happiness of Caroline Champetier: the young singer
1995 immediate Départ of Thomas Briat
1995 Ainsi (1995) is, of Patrick Alessandrin: Alice
1997 Drawn with share from Bernard Rapp: Farida
1997 the Truth if I lie! of Thomas Gilou: Sandra Benzakem
1998 Marie Bay of the Angels of Manual Pradal: The young woman of the villa
1999 Why not me? of Stephan Giusti: Camille
1999 Behind of Valerie Lemercier: Anne-Laure
2000 the Heart with the work of Laurent Dussaux: Noëlle
2000 Early or late of Anne-Marie Etienne: Catherine
2001 the Truth if I lie! 2 of Thomas Gilou: Sandra
2001 When one is tall of Renaud Cohen: Claire
2001 How I killed my father of Anne Fontaine: Myriem
2002 lost Girls, fatty hair of Claude Duty: Marianne
2003 Another man of Catherine Klein: Marie
2003 Sylvia of Christine Jeffs: Assia Wevill
2003 Ways of the Wadi of Gaël Morel: Nadia
2003 Married but not too of Catherine Corsini: Claudia
2004 You, old of Pierre Coré
2004 Anatomy of the hell of Catherine Breillat: the girl
2004 Nothing, here is the order of Jacques Baratier: Zelda Mitchell
2005 the bell sounded Bruno Herbulot: Vera
2005 To paint or make love Arnaud Larrieu: Eva
2006 the Tuner of earthquakes of Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay
2006 Transylvania of Tony Gatlif
2007 an old mistress of Catherine Breillat

Buñuel and the Table of the King Solomon of Carlos Will know: Carmen/Fatima
cold Journées which threatens the plants of Virginia Chanu
Some news of the continent of max Jourdan: Alice
Masquerade of Emmanuel Bourdieu: Pauline
the good life of Emmanuel Salinger

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