Acting
Souad Amidou
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.
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Filmography
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Police Commissioner Moulin
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Munich
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A Man and a Woman
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal...
Joséphine, Guardian Angel
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The Best Job in the World
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All You Need is Lie
In the jungle that is celibacy and dating apps, Zoé just found the man of her life. An idyll which lasts - 2 ho...
Les Hordes
In the near future, the poor and the underprivileged will come together to form roving road gangs. They form ho...
Drums of Fire
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La Maison des Rocheville
La Valise en carton
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The Best Years of a Life
They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-icon...
Malady of Love
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. Firs...
L'Affaire Saint-Romans
Diesel
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortiu...
Rocca (série télévisée)
Mission : protection rapprochée
Shooting Stars
A young Hungarian dreams of playing for the French football team and will get the help of a couple of friends.
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
The Girls of Grenoble
In Grenoble, a prostitute is murdered in her hospital bed. Cora twenty-two and also a prostitute was one of her...
La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
Black Really Suits You
The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To...
Levy & Goliath
A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day h...
Petit Con
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a que...
Le Nombril du monde
Tunisia, early thirties, the young and plump Bajou, lives modestly with his parents. One day after a flood, his...
Tom est tout seul
After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so g...
Vaines recherches
An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his co...
Le Passager du Tassili
Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his anc...
Il faut sauver Saïd
10-year-old Saïd, a child of Algerian immigrants, is talented, motivated and would like to be a good student. B...
The Big Brother
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one dir...
Brillantes
Karine, a housekeeper of 34, is the full-time mother of 17 year-old Ziggy. When the company that employed her i...
Goodbye Mothers
In 1960, Moroccan Jews began migrating en masse to Israel, encouraged by immigration officers of the new state....
The Fire Dance
Free and a multi-talented artist, Habiba Msika was one of the brightest stars of her time, the twenties. Inspir...
Noisy Neighbours
A grotesque, frenetic and musical short film from Jérome Lefdup, Dominik Barbier, and Larry Flash.
7, rue de la Folie
Comedy about a muslim and how is (expected) to behave.