Recognised as one of the greatest French actresses of our time, Fanny Ardant has collaborated, throughout her illustrious career, with today’s most celebrated actors and stage director, in France and internationally.

She received her first major role at the age of thirty, in the film “The Woman Next Door”, directed by the legendary François Truffaut, alongside actor Gérard Depardieu. Just a few years later, she collaborated again with Truffaut, performing another lead role, this time in the movie “Finally Sunday!”..Both of these roles have brought her to being nominated at the French Oscars (Césars), despite her young age. Following her early success, she has worked with many other renowned French directors, such as Alain Resnais, Claude Lelouch, Patrice Leconte, Michel Deville, and François Ozon.

After winning several international awards, she became a world-famous actress, and many European and American directors invited her to be part of their movies. She played major roles in movies by Ettore Scola, Volker Schloendorff, Sidney Pollack, Margareth Von Trotta and Paolo Sorrentino. In 2001, the world was stunned and moved by her incredible performance in the role of Maria Callas, in Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated film “Callas Forever”.

In 1997 she received her first major award in France, when winning a French Oscar as lead actress, for her unforgettable role in Gabriel Aghion’s film “Pédale Douce”.

Alternating between independent films, comedies, and big productions, Fanny Ardant has always amazed fans and critics around the world with her intense, poignant, and authentic approach to acting. In addition to her roles in numerous films, she has been featured in several award-winning theatre plays, directed by celebrated artists such as Francis Huster, Andreas Voutsinas, and Lambert Wilson.

In 2009, she directs her very first movie, “Ashes and Blood”. After the movie is nominated in the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival - receiving high praises from the critics - she decides to direct her second film, “Cadences Obstinées”. In 2017, she directs her third picture, “Stalin’s Couch”, with the participation of actor Gérard Depardieu. In 2019, she decides to go even further, when she directs her first opera production, “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” by Shostakovich, at the Athens National Opera in Greece. 

This year, Fanny Ardant has receives once again the highest honour in France, when winning her second French Oscar, this time for her role in Nicolas Bedos’s film, “La Belle Époque”.