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Profile

Activities : Actress
Represented by : Artmedia
Agent : Élisabeth Tanner
Official website : www.amiracasar.com

Latest films

Made in Italy(2008), from Stéphane Giusti
Tonight(2008), from Werner Schroeter
Gamines(2008), from Éléonore Faucher
Intrusions(2007), from Emmanuel Bourdieu
Le Voyage aux Pyrénées(2007), from Jean-Marie Larrieu, Arnaud Larrieu
Transylvania(2006), from Tony Gatlif
Guilty(2006), from Laetitia Masson
Journées froides qui menacent les plantes(2005), from Virginie Chanu
Paint or Make Love(2005), from Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Une vieille maîtresse(2005), from Catherine Breillat

Complete filmography

Biography

Discovered by photographer Helmut Newton at the age of 14, Amira Casar consequently moves to Paris. After working as a model she enters the Cours Florent before achieving her training at the National Drama Academy.
In 1989, she makes her first appearance on screen in Erreur de jeunesse. The public discovers her in Would I Lie to You? that wins her a nomination for the Best Promising Actress César Award in 1997.
She plays in provocative comedies such as Why Not Me? or Hypnotized and Hysterical (Hairstylist Wanted) as well as in directors’ more personal universes like Catherine Breillat or Anne Fontaine.
In 2005, she stars in To Paint or Make Love by the Larrieu Brothers and Take a Break! by Bruno Herbulot.
Amira Casar also manages a theatrical career in France as in England.

Remarks

INTERNATIONAL CAREER:
2005– No One Gets Off in This Town – Dir: R. Kwietniowski (USA);
2003 – Sylvia – Dir: C. Jeffs (USA);
2001 – Bunuel y la mesa del rey Salomon – Dir: C. Saura (Spain/Mex./Ger.);
1996 – Mirada liquida – Dir: R. Moleon (Spain)

TV:
2003 – 40 – Dir: D. Moore (UK);
2001 – Murder on the Orient Express – Dir: C. Schenkel (USA);
2000 – Arabian Nights – Dir: S. Barron (USA);
1997 – Opération Bugs Bunny – Dir: M. Hassan;
1996 – Sharpe’s Siege – Dir: T. Glegg (UK);
1996 – Beethoven : Un amour inachevé – Dir: G. Cazeneuve

TV SERIES :
2003 – Les Thibault – Dir: J.-D. Verhaeghe

THEATRE:
1999 – Aunt Dan and Lemon by W. Shawn (Dir: T. Kairn) (UK);
1999 – Hedda Gabler by H. Ibsen (Dir: R. Aquaviva)

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