Thevenet, Virginie

(January 12, 1957, Paris, France - )

   Spotted by director Moshé Mizrahi, who was looking for a blue-eyed schoolgirl, she made her film debut as an actress at age fourteen (l971 Les Stances à So­phie, Moshé Mizrahi, France / Canada). Seen in many other movies (l973 Les Zozos, Pascal Thomas; l976 L'Argent de Poche / UK and USA: Small Change, Fran­çois Truffaut; Vincent mit l'Âne dans un Pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre), Pierre Zucca; La Surprise du Chef, Pascal Thomas; Nuit, une Guerre, short, Marie-Geneviève Ripeau; l977 Une Sale Histoire, medium-length, Jean Eustache; l978 La Nuit tous les Chats sont gris, Gérard Zingg; La Tortue sur le Dos / USA: Like a Turtle on Its Back, Luc Béraud; Adieu, Voyages lents, medium-length; Marie-Geneviève Ripeau; l981 Quartet, James Ivory, UK / France; L'Année prochaine . . . si tout va bien / UK and USA: Next Year If All Goes Well, Jean-Loup Hubert; l982 Le Beau Mariage / UK and USA: A Good Mar­riage, Eric Rohmer; Nuit blanche, short, Françoise le Plouhinec; l983 Il ne faut jurer de rien, short, Christian Vincent; That's All Folks, short, Jordan Feldman; 1984 Debout les Crabes, la Mer monte!, Jacques Grand-Jouan; Les Nuits de la pleine Lune / UK and USA: Full Moon in Paris, Eric Rohmer; l985 Rosette vend des Roses, short, Rosette; l987 Le Cri du Hibou / UK and USA: The Cry of the Owl, Claude Chabrol; Rosette cherche une Cham­bre, short, Rosette; l988 Ada dans la Jungle, Gérard Zingg; 1989 L'Enfant de l'Hiver / USA: Winter's Child, Olivier Assayas), she also graduated with a diploma in Chinese before drawing posters for Beaubourg and illustrations for various magazines (Marie-Claire; Créé; Le Jardin des Modes), writing humoristic photo novels, and publishing articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma. She dedicates most of her time to painting.

 Filmography

1985 ◘ La Nuit Porte-Jarretelles (also screenwriter, di-alogist, co-producer)

1987 ◘ Jeux d'Artifices (also screenwriter, dialogist, composer, lyricist)

1992 ◘ Sam suffit (also screenwriter, dialogist)

1994 ◘ 3000 Scénarios contre un Virus (segment "Ba­vardage en Sida mineur")

1999 ◘ To Bib or Not to Bib? (documentary; short)