Anny Duperey
Anny Duperey is a French actress and best-selling author. She is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Actress
Duperey made her screen debut in the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film, "2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle". She co-starred in two French horror films, Spirits of the Dead and The Blood Rose.In the 1974 Alain Resnais film Stavisky, she portrayed Arlette, the beautiful real-life wife of flamboyant swindler Alexandre Stavisky played by Jean-Paul Belmondo. Anny Duperey was nominated for the 1977 César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in "Un éléphant ça trompe énormément". For her work in television, she has won two 7 d'Or Best Actress awards. In English-language film, Anny Duperey appeared with Al Pacino in the 1977 Sydney Pollack film Bobby Deerfield. Other notable appearances include Les Compères and TV series since 1992 Une famille formidable.In fall of 2006, she led in an adaption of Oscar and the Lady in Pink , a novel written by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt; she performed at the L'Avant-Seine Theater in Colombes.
Personal life
Her younger sister Patricia died in 2009 of a heart problem.She lived with actor Bernard Giraudeau for eighteen years, they had two children, Gael in 1982 and Sara in 1985. They separated in 1991, and Duperay married Cris Campion in 1993, but they also separated after some ten years. She has called Giraudeau “the man of my life” and Campion “the love of my life”.
She is the grandmother of four: Mona and Bonnie, daughters of Sara, and Romy and Susanne, daughters of Gael.
Charity Work
A social activist, Anny Duperey has volunteered for causes such as the international child welfare organisation SOS Children's Villages and SOS-PAPA an international organization to help ensure children of divorce have full participation by both parents. Her work earned her an appointment as Chevalier of Legion of Honour in 1997.Filmography
Feature films
Television
Theater
Author
In addition to her talents as an actress, Anny Duperey is a successful author of a number of bestselling books including L'admiroir, Le Nez de Mazarin , Le voile noir , Je vous écris , Les chats de hasard , Allons plus loin, veux-tu? Les chats mots and Une soirée .Year | Book | Publishing | Notes |
1976 | L'Admiroir | Éditions du Seuil | Novel Prix Alice-Barthou de l'Académie française |
1986 | Le Nez de Mazarin | Éditions du Seuil | Novel |
1992 | Le Voile noir | Éditions du Seuil | Autobiography |
1993 | Je vous écris | Éditions du Seuil | Autobiography & testimony |
1993 | Lucien Legras, photographe inconnu | Éditions du Seuil | Photographs of Lucien Legras |
1999 | Les Chats de hasard | Éditions du Seuil | Story |
2002 | Allons voir plus loin, veux-tu ? | Éditions du Seuil | Novel |
2003 | Les Chats mots | Éditions Ramsay | Texts & Illustrations with Sonja Knapp |
2004 | Essences et Parfums | Éditions Ramsay | Texts |
2005 | Une soirée | Éditions du Seuil | Novel |
2008 | De la vie dans son art, de l'art dans sa vie | Éditions du Seuil | Correspondence between Anny Duperey & Nina Vidrovitch |
2011 | Le Poil et la Plume | Éditions du Seuil | Novel |
2017 | Le Rêve de ma mère | Éditions du Seuil | Novel |
2018 | Les photos d'Anny | Éditions du Seuil | Novel |