Brigitte Roüan facts for kids

Brigitte Roüan (born 28 September 1946) is a French director, screenwriter and actress.

Life and career

Rouan was born into a French naval family in Toulon in 1946. She was orphaned at age six and spent her childhood in Algeria and Senegal. At age 12, she left for convent school in Paris.

Her acting career began at age 21, on the stage. Her performance lead the way to small film roles for directors including Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, and Bertrand Tavernier.

Rouan became a director in her own right when she helmed a short film titled Grosse. It won a César Award in 1986. She would become a feature film director with Overseas (1990), which won the Critics' Week award at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. She co-starred in the film with Marianne Basler and Nicole Garcia to portray sisters in colonial North Africa during the 1950s.

The now actor-director would continue in roles, including one in Olivier, Olivier (1991) for Polish director Agnieszka Holland.

In 1998, she was a member of the jury at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.

Selected filmography

As director

• Overseas (1990)
• Travaux, on sait quand ça commence... (Housewarming) (2005)
• "Tu honoreras ta mère et ta mère" (2012)

As actress

• Overseas (1990) as Malène
• Les Agneaux (1996)
• Post Coitum, Animal Triste (1997) as Diane Clovier
• Why Not Me? (1999) as Josepha
• Le Temps du Loup (Time of the Wolf) (2003) as Béa
• The Pleasure Is All Mine (2004) as Nicole
• Love Songs (2007) as Julie's Mother
• Spiral (TV series) (2008) as Karine Fontane
• The Ultimate Accessory (2013)
• Demi-soeur (2013)
• Love at First Fight (2014)
• From the Land of the Moon (2016)
• Guy (2018)