Coline serreau biography

Coline Serreau is a French actress, film director and writer.
Coline Serreau (born 29 October 1947) is a French actress, film director and writer.
Coline Serreau was born on October 29, 1947 in Paris, France.

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1 Coline Serreau, May ’68 and the 1970s in France

Rollet, Brigitte. "1 Coline Serreau, May ’68 and the 1970s in France". Coline Serreau, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. 4-35. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142054.00008

Rollet, B. (1998). 1 Coline Serreau, May ’68 and the 1970s in France. In Coline Serreau (pp. 4-35). Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142054.00008

Rollet, B. 1998. 1 Coline Serreau, May ’68 and the 1970s in France. Coline Serreau. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 4-35. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142054.00008

Rollet, Brigitte. "1 Coline Serreau, May ’68 and the 1970s in France" In Coline Serreau, 4-35. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142054.00008

Rollet B. 1 Coline Serreau, May ’68 and the 1970s in France. In: Coline Serreau. Manchester: Manchester University Press; 1998. p.4-35. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142054.00008

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Serreau, Coline 1947-

PERSONAL:

Born October 29, 1947, in Paris, France; daughter Jean-Marie Serreau (a theater director) and Geneviève Serreau (a writer and translator). Education: Attended the Conservatoire de la rue Blanche.

ADDRESSES:

Agent—Nicole David, William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

CAREER:

Actress, 1970-76; director of numerous films, including a segment of Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux!, 1982; director of stage productions, including the opera The Barber of Seville, 2002. Actor in films, including Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément … (international English title A Little, a Lot, Passioniately), 1971; La Part des lions (international English title The Lion's Share), 1971; Dada au coeur, 1974; On s'est trompè d'histoire d'amour, 1974; Sept morts sur ordonnance (international English title Bestial Quartet), 1975; and Le Fou de mai, 1980. Actor on television, including Pont dormant, 1972, and La Folie des bêtes, 1974.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Golden Spike, Valladolid International Film Festival, 1978, fo

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Biography: life and films

Coline Serreau probably owes her dazzling range of artistic abilities (as writer, director, actor, dancer and musician) to the fact that her father was the theatre director Jean-Marie Serreau and her mother Geneviève was a writer. She studied literature, music, dance and even took a trapeze course (with Annie Fratellini's École du Cirque) before she entered the hallowed ranks of the Comédie-Française as a trainee after taking drama lessons at the Centre d'Art dramatique in Paris. Not convinced that her future lay in acting, Serreau broadened out and started to work as a script writer and director for the stage, and then cinema in the early 1970s.

Serreau's first screen credit was as co-author of the screenplay of Jean-Louis Bertuccelli's 1974 film On s'est trompé d'histoire d'amour, in which she also appeared. The following year, she showed up on screen in a small part in Jacques Rouffio's Sept morts sur ordonnance (1975) and directed her first feature, a documentary titled Mais qu'est-ce qu'elles veulent?, in which she set out her stall as a