Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 04, 1959
Place of Birth
Nanterre, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Credits
36 titles
Souad Amidou
Biography
Souad Amidou (born 4 July 1959) is a French actress. She is the daughter of the actor Amidou. Her career started working with her father on the short film Le thé à la menthe in 1963. Then she was chosen by Claude Lelouch to play the daughter of Anouk Aimée in Un homme et une femme in 1966. When she was younger, she followed acting lessons from Anicette Fray. She followed her training at the "New Square Sylvia Monfort" then continued at Jean-Louis Martin-Barbaz, then with John Strasberg and Andreas Voutsinas. From the early 1980s, she was acting in cinema and television. She became popular with her role in Le Grand frère from Francis Girod that got her a nomination for the Caesar of the best female hope. She also worked under the direction of Gérald Oury, Jacques Deray, Ariel Zeitoun, Gérard Lauzier and Steven Spielberg. On 23 December 1987 she married the director Fabien Onteniente; the couple broke up on 15 March 1991. She received the Legion of Honour decoration in 2008. In 2009, she directed the first short film Camille and Jamila, but she proved her talent as a filmmaker with her second film Rendez-vous avec Ninette, presented in many festivals. Souad Amidou is vegan, member of the sponsorship committee of the Institut citoyen du cinéma and member of the NGO Vegan Marathon. Source: Article "Souad Amidou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography
Brillantes
All You Need is Lie
Odile
La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
Sabine Bernel
The Best Years of a Life
Françoise Gauthier, la fille d'Anne
7, rue de la Folie
Fatima
Black Really Suits You
Maléké
La Maison des Rocheville
Antonella
Goodbye Mothers
Ruth Elkaim
Il faut sauver Saïd
La mère
Munich
Yussef's Wife
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
la femme de chambre
Shooting Stars
Fabienne
Mission : protection rapprochée
Diane
Vivement dimanche
Self
Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Nizah
The Best Job in the World
Radhia
Tom est tout seul
Nurse
The Fire Dance
Habiba M'Sika
Le Nombril du monde
Amina
Rocca
l'inspecteur Fred Dubreuil
Les Hordes
Sarah
Drums of Fire
L'Affaire Saint-Romans
Judith Saint-Romans
La Valise en carton
Linda de Suza
Vaines recherches
Soledad
Malady of Love
Farida
Le Passager du Tassili
Safia
Levy & Goliath
Malika
Diesel
Kim
Petit Con
Salima
The Big Brother
Zina Khelifa
Champs-Elysées
Self
Noisy Neighbours
Dancer
The Girls of Grenoble
Liliane
Police Commissioner Moulin
Mme le procureur
A Man and a Woman
Françoise Gauthier