Clotilde Courau

Clotilde Marie Pascale di Savoia (née Courau; born 3 April 1969) is a French actress. In 2003, she married Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, a member of the House of Savoy and the grandson of Umberto II, the last king of Italy.

Early life and family

Clotilde Marie Pascale Courau was born on 3 April 1969 in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France, the eldest daughter of Jean-Claude Courau (b. 1942), a hydraulic engineer, and his wife, Catherine Marie Antoinette du Pontavice des Renardières (b. 1948), a school teacher, daughter of Haitian-born Marie Lélia Gabriel (Marie Lélia du Pontavice des Renardières, née Gabriel, died in 2023 in Ville-d'Avray, France at the age of 97.) She was born in 1926 in Paris to Haitian citizen François Joseph Camille Gabriel, born in 1898 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and his French wife Catherine Sarthou, born in 1900 in Higuères-Souye, Béarn. François Joseph Camille Gabriel was a member of the Mulatto Haitian elite and the great-grandnephew of Haitian poet Ignace Nau and Haitian historian and politician Émile Nau.

The couple have two daughters: Princess Vittoria Chiara Cristina Adelaide Maria (born 28 December 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland), Princess Luisa Giovanna Bianca Agata Gavina Maria (born 16 August 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland).

In March 2025, Prince Emanuele Filiberto announced that he and Courau had been living separately since 2021.

Political views In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Courau signed an open letter published in Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, as well as the establishment of a corridor into Gaza for humanitarian aid and the release of hostages.

Filmography Civilisations (1988) (TV mini-series) – Elyssa The Little Gangster – (1990) – The sister, Nathalie (Stéphanie) – (1993) – Alina Suchecka Map of the Human Heart – (1993) – Rainee The Pickle – (1993) – Françoise Ugly Meets the People – (1995) – Girl Tom est tout seul – (1995) – Marion Élisa – (1995) – Solange La fidèle infidèle (1995) (TV) – Cécile The Bait – (1995) – Patricia Les Grands Ducs – (1996) – Juliette Une leçon particulière (1997) (TV) – Julie Fred – (1997) – Lisa Marthe – (1997) – Marthe Bob le magnifique (1998) (TV) – Christine / Christina Hors jeu – (1998) – Clotilde Courau Le poulpe – (1998) – Cheryl Milk (1999) – Ilaria Deterrence (1999) – Katie En face – (2000) – Michelle La parenthèse enchantée – (2000) – Alice Deep in the Woods – (2000) – Sophie Exit – (2000) – Pearl / The journalist Le nouveau Jean-Claude – (2002) – Marianna Summer Things – (2002) – Julie Almost Peaceful – (2002) – Simone The Code – (2002) – Nina Mon Idole – (2002) – Fabienne Les beaux jours (2003) (TV) – Gaby Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 (2005) (TV) – Sabine La signora delle camelie (2005) (TV) – .... Mafalda di Savoia (2006) (TV mini-series) – Giovanna of Italy La Vie en Rose (2007) – Annetta Gassion Modern Love (2008) – Marie Chez Maupassant (1 episode, 2008, TV episode La chambre 11) – Clarisse / Marguerite Des mots d'amour aka Words of Love (Canada, English title) (2009) (TV) – Alice Andrézy Tous les soleils (2011) – Florence Babysitting (2014) – Mme. Schaudel In the Shadow of Women (2015) – Manon Eva & Leon (2015) – Lucie Heaven Will Wait (2016) – Sylvie An Easy Girl (2019) The Bad Poet (2020) Benedetta (2021) Marguerite's Theorem (2023) – Suzanne Last Summer (2023) – Mina The Lake (2025)

Honours National honours Member of the Order of Arts and Letters

Dynastic honour

Montenegrin Royal Family: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I House of Savoy: Dame Grand Cordon of the Royal Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Dame Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Order of Saint John (2023)

Honorific eponyms In 2009, her name was given to a rose created by the rose grower Fabien Ducher to mark the 500,000th visitor to the Jardins de l'Imaginaire, Terrasson.