Turckheim, Charlotte

(Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim / April 5, 1955, Montereau-Faut-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France - )

   The daughter of Alsatian aristocrats, she enrolled in the Cours Périmony, an acting school, in 1976. She entered films as an actress in a horror movie La Nuit de la Mort (Raphaël Delpard, 1980) and played sup­porting and leading roles in more than thirty motion pictures, mostly comedies with some remarkable exceptions (1984 Un Amour de Swann / Eine Liebe von Swann / UK: A Love of Swann / USA: Swan in Love, Volker Schlôndorff, France / West Germany; 1995 Jef­ferson in Paris / Jefferson à Paris, as Marie-Antoinette, James Ivory, USA / France; 1996 The Proprietor / La Propriétaire, Ismael Merchant, USA / UK / France). After creating Le Bonbon magique (Jean-Noël Fen-wick) at the Café de la Gare in 1978, she wrote and performed several other one-woman shows (1980 Le Troisième Jumeau; 1987 Panier de Crabes; 1990 Une Journée chez ma Mère; 1993 Ma Journée à moi; 1996 Mon Père, mes Frères et mes Sœurs; 2004 On ne m'a pas prévenue; 2007 Ça va nettement mieux). In 1992, she co-authored the cinematographic adaptation of Une Journée chez ma Mère (Dominique Cheminal).

 Filmography

1999 ◘ Mon Père, ma Mère, mes Frères et mes Soeurs / Mama, preséntame a papa! / US video: My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sis­ters (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor; France / Spain)

2006 ◘ Les Aristos (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor)