Josée Dayan
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1943-10-06 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
Also known As
Josée Dagnant
Josée Dayan
Biography
Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Dayan grew up in Algiers, Algeria, where her father Albert Dagnant, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television director; her grandmother was the owner of a cinema. Since 1974 she directed mainly movies for television. In 1979, under her direction, a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir appeared. Her most successful works are the 1998 TV mini-series The Count of Monte Cristo with Gérard Depardieu in the lead role, and the 2002 mini-series Les Misérables with Depardieu and John Malkovich. Then there is Balzac: A Passionate Lif...
Acting
2005
as Jacqueline Pommard
2022
as Self (archive footage)
2017
as Karina
2018
Production
1992
as Director
2001
as Director
2008
as Director
2011
as Director
1989
as Director
1990
as Director
1985
as Director
2008
as Director
1996
as Director
1996
as Writer
1996
as Director
1996
as Writer
1982
as Director
1982
as Adaptation
2009
as Director
2008
as Director
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as Director
2009
as Director
2010
as Director
2013
as Director
2012
as Director
2001
as Director
1999
as Director
2005
as Director
2013
as Director
2010
as Director
1996
as Director
2014
as Director
2011
as Director
1978
as Director
2001
as Director
2009
as Director
2023
as Director
2004
as Producer
2004
as Director
2015
as Director
2012
as Director
2003
as Producer
2009
as Director
2009
as Producer
2010
as Producer
2009
as Producer
2015
as Producer
1995
as Director
1990
as Director
1979
as Director
2019
as Director
1998
as Director
2008
as Director
2011
as Director
1987
as Director
1989
as Director
2003
as Director
2014
as Producer
2013
as Producer
2012
as Producer
2010
as Producer
2009
as Editor
2009
as Producer
1989
as Director
2011
as Producer
1979
as Writer
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