Vanessa Paradis

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: December 22, 1972
From: Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France

Biography

Vanessa Chantal Paradis (born 22 December 1972) is a French singer, model and actress. Paradis became a star at the age of 14 with the international success of her single "Joe le taxi" (1987). At age 18, she was awarded France's highest honours as both a singer and an actress with the Prix Romy Schneider and the César Award for Most Promising Actress for Jean-Claude Brisseau's Noce Blanche, as well as the Victoires de la Musique for Best Female Singer for her album Variations sur le même t'aime. Her most notable films also include Élisa (1995) alongside Gérard Depardieu, Witch Way Love (1997) opposite Jean Reno, Une chance sur deux (1998) co-starring with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, Girl on the Bridge (1999), Heartbreaker (2010) and Café de Flore (2011). Her tribute to Jeanne Moreau at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival during which they sang in duet "Le Tourbillon" became notable in French popular culture. In 2022, she was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Actress for her performance in the play Maman. She has been a muse to numerous musicians and lyricists who each took one of her albums under their aegis, including Étienne Roda-Gil (1988), Serge Gainsbourg (1990), Lenny Kravitz (1992), Matthieu Chedid (2007), Benjamin Biolay (2013), Samuel Benchetrit and The Bees (2018). As a model, Paradis has appeared on more than 300 magazine covers worldwide including Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Madame Figaro, Paris Match, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Premiere, and Marie Claire. Since 1991, she has been a spokesmodel for Chanel chosen by Karl Lagerfeld starting with the birdcage commercial "L'Esprit de Chanel" directed by Jean-Paul Goude. Paradis was made Officier (Officer) in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011 and was named Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur in 2015. Paradis was born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, in Paris’ suburbs, to interior designers André and Corinne Paradis. As a child she enrolled in dance lessons, learned the basics of piano, and attended child model casting sessions. At the age of seven, Paradis appeared on the local television program L'École des fans, a talent show for child singers. Paradis recorded her first single, "La Magie des surprises-parties", in 1983 and performed it at an Italian festival in 1985. Although not a hit, it paved the way for the song with which she became internationally famous, "Joe le taxi," composed by Franck Langolff in 1987, when she was 14. It was number one in France for 11 weeks and, unusually for a song sung in French, was released in the United Kingdom, where it reached number three. It was taken from her first album M&J (for Marilyn & John) which placed 13th in France, but did not enter the British chart. In March 1989, at age 16, she left high school to pursue her singing career. Paradis released the album Variations sur le même t'aime in 1990, containing a remake of the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side". The album was written by French composer Serge Gainsbourg, whom she met when she received the best singer award at Victoires de la Musique, on 4 February 1990. In 1990, she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in Noce Blanche. ... Source: Article "Vanessa Paradis" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Works

72 films

White Wedding

19896.6

Yoga Hosers

20164.6

A Monster in Paris

20116.9

Heartbreaker

20106.6

Fading Gigolo

20135.8

Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés

20257.0

Élisa

19956.4

Belmondo, itinéraire...

20117.7

Vanessa Paradis à l'Olympia - Basique, le concert

2019

Half a Chance

19985.7

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

20228.2

Jane Birkin by Friends

2024

Vanessa Paradis, la soirée

20259.0

Out of Control

20255.8

Juniors

20235.9

French Tech

20216.5

Du Baptême à Je dis -M-

2001

Knife+Heart

20185.9

Rio, I Love You

20144.8

The Girl on the Bridge

19997.0

Café de Flore

20116.8

French Women

20145.7

Love Song for Tough Guys

20216.0

Vanessa Paradis - Divinidylle Tour

20085.5

L'Âge d'or de la pub

20236.5

The King of Ads

19914.3

Étienne Daho Show

20247.0

The Pink Soldier

20065.5

Oh Les Filles!

20197.4

Lost in La Mancha

20027.1

Photo de famille

20185.8

Terra

20158.3

A Witch's Way of Love

19975.2

Low Profile

20126.0

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

20187.0

Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)

19985.1

The Return of James Battle

20045.6

Class Reunion

20255.8

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

20148.0

Gainsbourg and His Girls

20104.1

Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés

20057.8

M en rêvalité aux Folies Bergère

2022

I Love You Coiffure

20203.8

Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur

19987.6

Trespassers

2026

Les Enfants de la Pop 80's

2012

The Key

20075.3

Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex

19946.5

Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes

200810.0

Vanessa Paradis - Love Songs

20158.2

Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés

20018.0

Killing Blues

20235.6

Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés

19976.0

Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique

19956.0

Sugar Bomb

2026

Frost

20175.0

Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés

19966.0

My Angel

20045.8

Vanessa Paradis au Zénith

2001

Karl

2025

Dog

20174.8

Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show

2018

Dubaï Flamingo

2012

Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania

19936.5

Cornouaille

20125.5

Vanessa Paradis ‎– Anthologie 87-2007

2010

Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000

19997.3

Maryline

20175.1

On l'appelait Roda

20185.2

Vanessa Paradis: Une Nuit à Versailles

20105.3

Vanessa Paradis. (Idyllique)

2008

I'll Forget Your Name

2026