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Danièle Thompson
French screenwriter and director (born 1942) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Danièle Claude Renée Tannenbaum, also known as Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942)[1] is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.
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Life
Thompson was born on 3 January 1942 in Monaco.[1] She is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.[2] She moved to New York with her mother in 1960, and married Richard Thompson two years later.[1] Thompson's son is the actor Christopher Thompson. They have written screenplays together, most notably those of Jet Lag and Season's Beatings.[3] Thompson later married producer and agent Albert Koski.[4]
In 2009, Thompson signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse case.[5]
In 2010, she joined Isabelle Adjani, Paul Auster, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Pierre Thiollet and Henri Tisot in signing the petition in support of Roman Polanski when the film director was temporarily arrested by Swiss police at the request of U.S. authorities.[6]
Thompson was for two years an artist's model for American painter Tom Wesselman.[7]
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Work
From the 1970s to the 1990s, Thompson worked as a screenwriter, before moving into directing.[1] Thompson has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films including Cousin, cousine, La Boum, Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, La Reine Margot, and Jet Lag, which she also directed. She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Cousin, cousine. Her 2006 film, Fauteuils d'orchestre was France's entrant for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury.[8] In 2016 she directed a French language film, Cezanne et moi, about the relationship between Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola.[9]
Thompson was the writer and director of a 2023 television series Bardot, about Brigitte Bardot.[10]
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Filmography
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