Valérie Lang

Valérie Suzanne Rose Lang (24 March 1966 – 22 July 2013) was a French actress of stage, screen and television. She was educated at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique in Paris under the tutelage of Jean-Pierre Vincent. Lang partook in the productions as an associate member of the Nordey troupe at the Théâtre des Amandiers and had roles in such plays as The Triumph of Love, Venus in Furs, A Flea in Her Ear, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Tartuffe. She co-directed the Théâtre Gérard Philipe between 1998 and 2001 and oversaw the Théâtre citoyen project. Lang was in the film and television productions of Les Misérables, Father of My Children, Neuilly Yo Mama!, Accomplices, The Beautiful Person and Le Divorce. She was an unsuccessful candidate to be deputy for Jean-Louis Ragot for the Democratic Movement political party in the 2007 French legislative election.

Early life Lang was born on 24 March 1966, in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. She was the daughter of Jack Lang, the former French Minister of Culture, and his wife Monique Lang ( Buczynski). Lang has one older sister. She was raised in an active Jewish community and educated as such. and she spent time in theatres when she was young in the 1970s.

Career From 1993, Lang began playing theatre roles, Lang was featured in the plays Tartuffe by Molière, A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, The Triumph of Love by Pierre de Marivaux, Philosophy in the Bedroom by Marquis de Sade, Hiroshima mon Amour by Marguerite Duras, She was co-director of the Théâtre Gérard Philipe, which was the national drama centre, Lang oversaw the Théâtre citoyen project which led to the theatre going bankrupt. Priscilla in the 2008 film Soit je meurs, soit je vais mieux, She had joined the party due to her rejection of Ségolène Royal. On the early morning of 22 July 2013,