My Wife Is an Actress

2001 film by Yvan Attal

My Wife is an Actress

Film poster

Directed by| Yvan Attal
Written by| Yvan Attal
Produced by| Claude Berri
Starring| Yvan Attal
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Terence Stamp
Cinematography| Rémy Chevrin
Edited by| Jennifer Augé
Music by| Brad Mehldau

Production
companies

Katharina
Renn Productions
TF1 Films Production

Distributed by| Pathé

Release dates

* 12 September 2001 (2001-09-12) (TIFF)
* 14 November 2001 (2001-11-14) (France)

Running time

| 95 minutes
Country| France
Languages| French
English
Budget| $6.4 million[1]
Box office| $5.2 million[2]

My Wife is an Actress (French: Ma femme est une actrice) is a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama film starring Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film. The film stars Terence Stamp among others. This film is also highly biographic, as Yvan and Charlotte are a real-life couple since 1991, and have three children. According to Yvan, the idea and a part of the plot originates from real-life events.[3]

## Cast

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* Charlotte Gainsbourg as Charlotte
* Yvan Attal as Yvan
* Terence Stamp as John
* Noémie Lvovsky as Nathalie
* Laurent Bateau as Vincent
* Keith Allen as David
* Ludivine Sagnier as Géraldine
* Lionel Abelanski as Georges
* Marie Denarnaud as Colette
* Gilles Lellouche as The policeman
* Eriq Ebouaney as The Club bouncer
* Ben Attal as little boy

## Reception

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The film was released on 14 November 2001 in France on 238 screens and opened at number one with a gross of 7 million Francs ($1 million) for the week.[4] It went on to gross $3.4 million in France.[5] It opened on 12 July 2002 in 7 theatres in the United States and grossed $49,204 in the opening weekend and went on to gross $1,121,233. It grossed $5,169,438 worldwide.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "Ma femme est une actrice (2001) - JPBox-Office".
2. ^ "My Wife is an Actress (2002) - Box Office Mojo". Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
3. ^ "Interview with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal - Movie Habit". www.moviehabit.com.
4. ^ "International Box Office". Variety. 26 November 2001. p. 10.
5. ^ a b "My Wife is an Actress (2002) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.

## External links

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* My Wife Is an Actress at IMDb
* My Wife Is an Actress at Box Office Mojo
* My Wife Is an Actress at Rotten Tomatoes

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Films directed by Yvan Attal

* My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
* Happily Ever After (2004)
* New York, I Love You (2008)
* Do Not Disturb (2012)
* The Jews (2016)
* Le Brio (2017)
* My Dog Stupid (2019)
* The Accusation (2021)
* Breaking Point (2023)

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