Amira Casar | |
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Born | London, England |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1989–present |
Amira Casar is a French-British actress of Kurdish descent.
Amira Casar was born in London and was subsequently raised in England, Ireland, and France.[1] She studied drama at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique de Paris between 1991 and 1994.[2] She is fluent in English, Persian, and French and has worked in German, Italian, and Spanish.[citation needed]
Casar's first role was in the 1989 film Erreur de jeunesse[3] She played Sandra Benzakhem in the 1997 film La Vérité si je mens !, for which she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress.[4] She later appeared in the film's two sequels, in 2001 and 2012.[5][6]
(Error of Youth) by Radovan Tadic .Casar portrayed Myriem in How I Killed My Father (2001) by Anne Fontaine;[7] Assia Wevill in Sylvia (2003) by Christine Jeffs;[8] the lead role of The Woman in the Catherine Breillat erotic film Anatomy of Hell (2004);[2][9] and Eva in To Paint or Make Love (2005) by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[10]
Other roles include Marianne in Hypnotized and Hysterical (2002),[11] a film by Claude Duty which won the Grand Golden Rail at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; Malvina van Stille in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by the Brothers Quay (2005);[12] and Marie in Tony Gatlif's Transylvania in 2006.[13]
In 2007, Casar appeared in installation artist Sophie Calle's Venice Biennale piece Prenez soin de vous (Take Care of Yourself).[2]
In 2008, she played Dolorès in Laetitia Masson's Coupable ,[14] and portrayed Irene in Werner Schroeter's last film, Nuit de chien.[15] Casar played the lead role of Anna Di Baggio in the Éléonore Faucher film Gamines in 2009.[16]
She won the Best Actress award at La Rochelle Television Film Festival for her portrayal of Dora Maar in La femme qui pleure au chapeau rouge in 2010.[17] In 2011, Casar played Irène in Let My People Go ! ,[18] and Deniz in Playoff.[19][20] In 2013, she appeared in the Arnaud des Pallières film Michael Kohlhaas,[21][22] and portrayed Anne-Marie Munoz in Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent in 2014.[3]
In 2015, Casar appeared in The Forbidden Room by Canadian director Guy Maddin.[23] and portrayed Béatrice, Madame de Clermont, in the TV series Versailles.[24][25] In 2017, she played Annella Perlman in the film Call Me by Your Name.[26] She also appeared in the 2019 Caroline Fourest film Sisters in Arms, about a team of female Kurdish soldiers and volunteers.[27]
In 2022, Casar appeared in the film The Contractor.[28] She portrayed Edith Frank, the mother of Anne Frank, in the 2023 Disney+ series A Small Light.[28]
On stage, Casar's work includes the Almeida Theatre production of Aunt Dan and Lemon; the title role in Hedda Gabler at Le Petit Théâtre de Paris; and Olivier Py's 2009 production of Les Enfants de Saturne at the Theatre National de L'Odéon, Paris.[citation needed] In 2011, she appeared in the title role of Petra in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,[29][30] and received critical acclaim in Arthur Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher at the Barbican Centre with the London Symphony Orchestra.[31]
Casar also appeared in the 1995 Bryan Adams music video for "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?".[32]
Year | Title | Role | Director |
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1989 | Erreur de jeunesse | Girl on the train | Radovan Tadic |
1994 | Le Temps du bonheur (short) | Caroline Champetier | |
1995 | Départ immediat (short) | Woman | Thomas Briat |
Ainsi soient-elles | Alice | Patrick Alessandrin | |
1996 | Tiré à part | Farida | Bernard Rapp |
Mirada liquida | Ana | Rafael Monleon | |
1997 | Marie from the Bay of Angels | Young woman at the villa | Manuel Pradal |
La Vérité si je mens ! | Sandra Benzakhem | Thomas Gilou | |
1999 | Why Not Me? | Camille | Stéphane Giusti |
Le Derrière | Anne-Laure | Valérie Lemercier | |
2000 | Tôt ou tard | Catherine | Anne-Marie Etienne |
Le coeur à l'ouvrage | Noëlle | Laurent Dussaux | |
2001 | Quand on sera grand | Claire | Renaud Cohen |
La Vérité si je mens ! 2 | Sandra Benzakhem | Thomas Gilou | |
How I Killed My Father | Myriem | Anne Fontaine | |
Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón | Fatima / Carmen | Carlos Saura | |
2002 | Hypnotized and Hysterical (Hairstylist Wanted) | Marianne | Claude Duty |
2003 | Un autre homme | Marie | Catherine Klein |
Sylvia | Assia Wevill | Christine Jeffs | |
The Very Merry Widows | Claudia | Catherine Corsini | |
Under Another Sky (Les Chemins de l'oued) | Nadia | Gaël Morel | |
2004 | Toi, vieux | (short)Ghost | Pierre Coré |
Rien, voilà l'ordre | Zelda Mitchell | Jacques Baratier | |
Anatomy of Hell | The Woman | Catherine Breillat | |
2005 | The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes | Malvina van Stille | Brothers Quay |
To Paint or Make Love | Ava | Arnaud Larrieu | |
La cloche a sonné | Vera | Bruno Herbulot | |
2006 | Transylvania | Marie | Tony Gatlif |
2007 | The Last Mistress | Mademoiselle Divine des Airelles | Catherine Breillat |
Kandisha | Nyla Jayde | Jérôme Cohen-Olivar | |
Intrusions | Muriel | Emmanuel Bourdieu | |
2008 | Quelques nouvelles du continent | Alice | Max Jourdan |
Nuit de chien | Irene | Werner Schroeter | |
Made in Italy | Isabella | Stéphane Giusti | |
Le Voyage aux Pyrénées | Socialite journalist | Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu | |
Coupable | Dolorès | Laetitia Masson | |
2009 | Oscar et la dame rose | Mme Gommette | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt |
Gamines | Anna Di Biaggio | Éléonore Faucher | |
Park Benches | Customer | Bruno Podalydès | |
2010 | Districted Leporello (short) | Woman | Julião Sarmento |
2011 | Playoff | Deniz | Eran Riklis |
Let My People Go ! | Irène | Mikael Buch | |
2012 | Michael Kohlhaas | Abbess | Arnaud des Pallières |
La vérité si je mens ! 3 | Sandra Benzakhem | Thomas Gilou | |
2013 | Spiritismes | Guy Maddin | |
2014 | Saint Laurent | Anne-Marie Munoz | Bertrand Bonello |
Not My Type | Marie | Lucas Belvaux | |
2015 | The Last Summer of the Rich | Hanna von Stezewitz | Peter Kern |
The Forbidden Room | Mrs. M____ | Guy Maddin | |
Me and Kaminski | Miriam Kaminski | Wolfgang Becker | |
2016 | Night of 1000 Hours | Renate Bode | Virgil Widrich |
2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Annella Perlman | Luca Guadagnino |
2018 | At Eternity's Gate | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | Julian Schnabel |
2019 | Sisters in Arms | Commander | Caroline Fourest |
Curiosa | Madame de Heredia | Lou Jeunet | |
2022 | The Contractor | Sophie Mohsin | Tarik Saleh |
2023 | Visions | Yann Gozlan |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996 | Sharpe's Siege | Catherine | TV series, S04E02 |
1997 | Opération Bugs Bunny | Marie-Noëlle | TV movie |
2000 | Arabian Nights | Morgiana | TV miniseries |
2001 | Murder on the Orient Express | Helena von Strauss | TV movie |
2003 | 40 | Kristina | TV miniseries |
The Thibaults | Rachel | TV miniseries | |
2008 | Les Héritières | Antonia | TV movie |
2010 | La femme qui pleure au chapeau rouge | Dora Maar | TV movie |
2015 | Versailles | Béatrice, Madame de Clermont | TV series |
2017 | Tensions sur le Cap Corse | Gabrielle Monti | TV movie |
2019 | Savages (Les Sauvages) | Daria | TV series |
2023 | A Small Light | Edith Frank | TV miniseries |
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