Josée Dayan

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1943-10-06 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France

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

Akoibon

as Jacqueline Pommard

Production

1992

Hot Chocolate

as Director

2011

Rasputin

as Director

1989

1990

Frame Up Blues

as Director

1985

2008

Marie-Octobre

as Director

1996

1996

1996

2009

2008

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Neptunes Thunder

as Director

2010

A Dubious Place

as Director

2013

The Lanzac Clan

as Director

2012

2001

Cet amour-là

as Director

2005

2013

Indiscrétions

as Director

1996

2014

2011

A Bad Encounter

as Director

1978

la femme rompue

as Director

2009

Mom Lost It!

as Director

2023

Goodbye Vinyle

as Director

2004

Milady

as Producer

2004

Milady

as Director

2015

2012

Second Chances

as Director

2003

Hot House

as Producer

2009

Mourir d'aimer

as Director

2009

Mourir d'aimer

as Producer

2010

A Dubious Place

as Producer

2009

2015

1995

1990

Plein fer

as Director

1979

2019

2011

Bouquet final

as Director

1987

2003

Hot House

as Director

2014

2013

Indiscrétions

as Producer

2012

2009

Mom Lost It!

as Editor

2009

Mom Lost It!

as Producer

1989

2011

A Bad Encounter

as Producer

1979

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