Mathilda MAY
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Daughter of playwright Victor Haim, Mathilda May first follows the path set by his mother, dance teacher. She practices this activity from the age of 8 years, until in 1983 the first prize at the Conservatoire National de Paris. Identified by the agent Myriam Bru, she then turned to comedy, winning her first role, that of a princess, in Nemo (1984), adaptation of the comic strip by Winsor McCay. Valerie Kaprisky appeared shortly after and just before Beatrice Dalle, Mathilda May is needed soon as one of the great sex symbols of the 80 French. First used in comedies (The Kings of the gag), she ventures into the worlds most troubled by Claude Chabrol, who is the heroine of the Cry of the Owl, a performance hailed by a Cesar for Most Promising in 1988. Winner the following year's Prix Romy Schneider-she borrows against Gateway Arditi, sing and dance along with Montand in Three seats for 26 of Demy. After Chabrol and Demy, it is still a quasi-veteran, Michel Deville, who chooses to embody the object of desire in the dark All concurrent sentences (1992). Bigas Luna is not insensitive to the charms of pulpy Mathilda May (The Moon and the Stud, with Gérard Darmon, while fellow actress), which binds atypical projects filmed in Algeria (Isabelle Eberhardt) or in Patagonia ( The Cry of the rock Herzog) and lent her voice to Pocahontas in the vf of the famous Disney (1995). Partner Bruce Willis in The Jackal in 1997, it is then little by the French filmmakers, and will take away the plates for several years. But Claude Chabrol has not forgotten who gave him a role in The Girl Cut in Two (2007), 20 years after Cry of the Owl. Besides classical dance training, Mathilda May is also passionate about classical music and is delighted with his works to share her passion with children and their parents. Google machine translation: Mathilda MAY's original bio |