Laure Calamy
Calamy in 2018
Born (1975-03-22) 22 March 1975
OccupationActress
Years active2001–present
Notable workUn monde sans femmes
Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Seules les bêtes
My Donkey, My Lover & I
Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent)

Laure Calamy (born 22 March 1975)[2] is a César Award-winning French film, TV and theatre actress best known for her roles in Call My Agent! and My Donkey, My Lover & I.[3]

Early life

Born in 1975,[4] Calamy is the daughter of a psychologist and a doctor.[5][6] She first tried her hand at theatre during her youth.

In 2000, after completing the baccalaureate, Calamy moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire de Paris,[7] from which she graduated in 2001. At the Conservatoire, she met Olivier Py, who directed her in Au monde comme pas y être, Orlando ou l'impatience and Les Parisiens.[8]

Career

Critics lauded Calamy's performances in the short films Ce qu'il restera de nous, directed by Vincent Macaigne, and Un monde sans femmes, directed by Guillaume Brac, for which she received the Jeanine Bazin prize at the Festival Entrevues de Belfort.[9]

Her performance in Cécile Ducrocq's short film Back Alley (La contre-allée), which was first screened during International Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival, earned her a Special Jury Prize for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival.[10]

Calamy initially appeared in feature films in supporting roles. She became known to a wider audience for her portrayal of Noémie in the television series Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent).[11]

In 2018, she was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Léa Mysius's Ava. The same year, she received the Molière Award for Best Actress in a Private Theatre Show for her performance in Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance (Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard), directed by Catherine Hiegel at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin.[12]

On December 19, 2018, more than 70 celebrities, including Calamy, responded to a call to action by the organisation Urgence Homophobie to combat anti-LGBT bullying. She appears in the music video for the song "De l'amour".[13]

She is a member of the 50/50 Collective, which aims to promote equality between women and men in the cinema and audiovisual sector.[14][15]

In 2020, Calamy starred as Antoinette in Caroline Vignal's My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cevennes), an unexpected box-office success in France, and received positive reviews from critics.[16] She won the César Award for Best Actress for her role in the film.

In 2021 Calamy won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actress at the 78th Venice International Film Festival for her starring role in Éric Gravel's Full Time.

Theatre

Year Title Author Director Notes
2001 Au monde comme n'y étant pas Olivier Py Olivier Py
2002 Le Complexe de Thénardier José Pliva Jean-Michel Ribes
2004 The Liar Pierre Corneille Jean-Louis Benoît
The Screens Jean Genet Jean-Baptiste Sastre
Kroum, l'ectoplasme Hanoch Levin Clément Poirée
2005 The Italian Straw Hat Eugène Marin Labiche Olivier Balazuc
2007 Bonjour - Où sont les mamans ? Claude Ponti Léna Bréban
2008 The Suicide Nikolai Erdman Volodia Serre
In the Jungle of Cities Bertolt Brecht Clément Poirée
La Disparition de Richard Taylor Arnaud Cathrine Pauline Bureau
2011 Au moins j'aurai laissé un beau cadavre Vincent Macaigne Vincent Macaigne
Modèles Pauline Bureau & Laure Calamy Pauline Bureau
2013 Belgrade Angélica Liddell Julien Fisera
2014 Man Equals Man Bertolt Brecht Clément Poirée
2014-15 Orlando ou l'impatience Olivier Py Olivier Py
2015-16 Les Inséparables Colas Gutman Léna Bréban
2017 Les Parisiens Olivier Py Olivier Py
2018 The Game of Love and Chance Pierre de Marivaux Catherine Hiegel Molière Award for Best Actress
Le Fusil de chasse Yasushi Inoue Laure Calamy

Filmography

Year Title Role Director Notes
2005 Le personnage The prostitute Frédérick Vin Short
2007 Chat bleu, chat noir The nice Jean-Louis Lorenzi TV series (1 episode)
2008 C'est votre histoire The mother Alain Guiraudie TV series (1 episode)
2009 Park Benches Opportune Bruno Podalydès
2011 Un monde sans femmes Patricia Guillaume Brac Short
Boulevard du Palais The doctor Jean-Marc Vervoort TV series (1 episode)
2012 A Perfect Plan Valérie Pascal Chaumeil
La fleur de l'âge Sarah Chevalier Nick Quinn
Ce qu'il restera de nous Laure Vincent Macaigne Short
2013 9 Month Stretch Daisy Albert Dupontel
Passe The prostitute Julien Gaspar-Oliveri Short
L'albatros The girlfriend Emmanuel Bonnat Short
Toutes les belles choses Jessica Cécile Bicler Short
2014 Zouzou Lucie Blandine Lenoir
French Women Cathy Bento Audrey Dana
Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey Nadine Legall Lucie Borleteau
Weekends in Normandy Flo Anne Villacèque
Petit lait Suzanne François Choquet Short
La contre-allée Suzanne Cécile Ducrocq Short
Sundance Film Festival - Short Film Special Jury Prize - Acting
2015 En équilibre Séverine Denis Dercourt
Les Cowboys Isabelle Thomas Bidegain
All About Them The aggressive Jérôme Bonnell
This Summer Feeling Anouk Mikhaël Hers
Vous m'éblouissez The woman Marie Madinier Short
L'Amérique de la femme Lucie Blandine Lenoir Short
2015–2020 Call My Agent! Noémie Leclerc Marc Fitoussi, Cédric Klapisch, ... TV series (24 episodes)
Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actress (2017)
2016 Primaire Christina Drouet Hélène Angel
Staying Vertical Doctor Mirande Alain Guiraudie
In Bed with Victoria Christelle Justine Triet
Clitopraxis Peggy Emmanuel Laborie Short
2017 Ava Maud Léa Mysius Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actress
I Got Life! Pôle Emploi employee Blandine Lenoir
Embrasse-moi ! Fantine Océan Michel & Cyprien Vial
Pour le réconfort Laure Vincent Macaigne
Bonheur Académie Lily Desmaret Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita
Canine panique Madame Borota Baptiste Drapeau Short
Holly Weed Céline Alban Laurent de Vismes TV series (8 episodes)
2018 Lady J Lucienne Emmanuel Mouret
Our Struggles Claire Guillaume Senez
Claire Darling Martine Leroy Julie Bertuccelli
Roulez jeunesse Nelly Julien Guetta
2019 Sibyl Édith Justine Triet
Le dindon Clothilde Pontagnac Jalil Lespert
Only the Animals Alice Farange Dominik Moll Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actress
Une belle équipe Catherine Guerin Mohamed Hamidi
Temps de chien Judith Edouard Deluc TV movie
Calls Élodie Timothée Hochet TV series (1 episode)
2020 My Best Part Sylvie Nicolas Maury
My Donkey, My Lover & I Antoinette Lapouge Caroline Vignal César Award for Best Actress
La Flamme Victoire Jonathan Cohen & Jeremie Galan TV series (5 episodes)
2021 Louloute Isabelle Hubert Viel
Her Way Marie
Full Time Julie Éric Gravel Won - 2021 Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Best Actress
Nominated – César Award for Best Actress
2022 The Origin of Evil (L'origine du mal) Stéphane Sébastien Marnier

References

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  2. Legendre, Jules (2022-03-30). "Laure Calamy : 5 choses à savoir sur l'actrice". Femme Actuelle (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  3. "Laure Calamy : "La montée des marches, c'est hystérisant !" - Festival de Cannes 2016 - Télérama.fr". Telerama.fr. 14 May 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  4. Renault, Gilles. "Laure Calamy : Transe de rire". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  5. "Laure Calamy : "J'aimerais bien tuer mes monstres"". www.journaldesfemmes.fr (in French). 28 November 2019. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
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  11. à 13h22, Par Catherine Balle Le 2 juillet 2017 (2017-07-02). "Révélée dans "Dix pour cent", Laure Calamy, une fille en or". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. "" Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard " : partie carrée". France tv & vous (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  13. "Amel Bent, Bilal Hassani, Amir... les stars se mobilisent contre l'homophobie avec un clip poignant". purebreak.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  14. Tartaglione, Nancy (2018-02-28). "French Film Industry Launches 50/50 By 2020 Equality Initiative". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  15. "Collectif 5050". Collectif 5050 (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  16. "Caroline Vignal : "Antoinette est une comédie et pourtant, beaucoup de gens me disent avoir pleuré "". France Culture (in French). 3 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-11.


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