Souâd Amidou

Souad Amidou (born 4 July 1959) is a French actress.

Biography She is the daughter of the actor Amidou. Her career started working with her father on the short film Le thé à la menthe in 1963. Then she was chosen by Claude Lelouch to play the daughter of Anouk Aimée in Un homme et une femme in 1966.

As a young woman, she studied acting lessons with Anicette Fray. She trained at the New Square Sylvia Monfort, then continued with Jean-Louis Martin-Barbaz, and later with John Strasberg and Andreas Voutsinas.

Since the early 1980s, she has acted in cinema and television. She became popular with her role in Le Grand frère from Francis Girod that got her a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress. She also worked with Gérald Oury, Jacques Deray, Ariel Zeitoun, Gérard Lauzier and Steven Spielberg.

On 23 December 1987, she married director Fabien Onteniente; the couple broke up on 15 March 1991.

She received the Legion of Honour decoration in 2008

In 2009, she directed the first short film Camille and Jamila, but she proved her talent as a filmmaker with her second film Rendez-vous avec Ninette, presented in many festivals.

Civic engagement Souad Amidou is vegan and a member of the sponsorship committee of the Institut citoyen du cinéma as well as the NGO Vegan Marathon.

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