Ysabelle Lacamp

Ysabelle Lacamp (7 November 1954 – 26 June 2023) was a French novelist, singer and actress.

Biography

Early life and education Ysabelle Lacamp was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 7 November 1954. She was the daughter of French journalist and writer Max Olivier-Lacamp (prix Renaudot 1969) and Pyong-You Hyun of Korean origin.

Lacamp received a degree in Chinese and Korean from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and in Oriental languages from Paris.

Career Lacamp started as an actress in 1975, first appearing in the cinema in the second part of the film Emmanuelle. She played notably in 1983 in Le Marginal by Jacques Deray with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Le Joli Cœur with Francis Perrin. On television, she appeared in episodes of the series Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret, Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and in 2002 in Fabio Montale, with Alain Delon.

Throughout her roles, she was credited as Isabelle Olivier Lacamp, Isabelle Lacamp, Isabelle Olivier-Lacamp, and Isa Lacamp. She also practised in the dubbing of television series.

In 1987, she released a 45 rpm entitled Baby Bop.

Lacamp presented the cultural program Hors la ville on France 3 Limousin Poitou-Charentes for three years and for seven years co-organized the literary meetings of Ajaccio “Racines du ciel”.

Lacamp is best known as a writer, publishing bestselling novels. She released her first novel in 1986, Le Baiser du dragon.

Lacamp was a member of the jury for the Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Prize for autobiography.

Death Lacamp died from cancer in Paris, on 26 June 2023, at the age of 68.

Prizes In 2003, she won the Cabri d'or from the Académie cévenole.

Publications The Kiss of the Dragon, Lattes, 1986 The Girl from Heaven, Albin Michel, 1988 Spring Snow, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand Albin Michel, 1988 The Blue Elephant, Albin Michel, 1990 Prunus flower in the land of magic gourds, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand, Albin Michel, 1990 A well-behaved young girl, Albin Michel, 1991 Distant Paradises, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand, LGF, 1993 Kimono Nights, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand, LGF, 1996 Mambo Mambo, Ramsay, 1997 Kensington Square, Ramsay, 1999 The Man Without a Gun, Seuil, 2002 and Points, 2003 Cévennes, colors of the world - photographs by Jean du Boisberranger -, Rouergue editions, 2003 The Jealousy of Flowers, Seuil, 2004 and Points, 2005 prefaced Scarecrows: Guardians of the Eternal by Sergio Cozzi, Equinoxe, 2006 prefaced La Table d'ardoise, Sylvalonia 1959, by Yves Portier, Regain de lecture, 2008 The Cloud Juggler, Flammarion, 2008 Passport to Cheju, Elytis, 2010 prefaced Living and Dying on the Banks of the Ganges, a photo book by Jean-François Lixon, L'Esprit du Monde, 2012 Marie Durand: No to religious intolerance, Actes Sud, 2012 Shadow Among Shadows, ed. Bruno Doucey, 2018 (about the last hours of the poet Robert Desnos).

Filmography

Film

Television

Television films 1987 : Bonne chance Monsieur Pic ! de Maurice Failevic : la recruteuse 1988 : Un Cœur de marbre de Stéphane Kurc : Ghislaine

Television series

Dubbing 1990 : Twin Peaks : Jocelyn « Josie » Packard - (actress : Joan Chen) 1981-1989 : Dynastie : Amanda Belford Carrington of Moldavia - (actresses : Catherine Oxenberg puis Karen Cellini) 1991 : Capitaine Planète (série d'animation) : Gi