France Dougnac

France Dougnac

Birth : 1951-06-10, Toulouse, HauteGaronne, France

Death : 2018-07-04

History

France Dougnac est née dans une famille d'artistes. Ses parents étaient danseurs, puis mimes, avant de devenirmarionnettistes et de fonder la Compagnie de marionnettistes Mathilde et Paul Dougnac. Son frère Michel, compositeur, rejoint la troupe familiale en 1971. En 1979, la compagnie devient une association sous le nom d’Atelier de Création de Marionnettes Dougnac, et s’installe à La Celle-Saint-Cloud. France Dougnac suit ses études secondaires au Cours Hattemer dans le 8e arrondissement de Paris, avant d'être engagée, à l'âge de dix huit ans, pour jouer dans le film Les Cent Livres des hommes de Nat Lilienstein. Après une carrière d'une dizaine d'années à la télévision, et d'une vingtaine d'années au cinéma, elle disparait du petit écran en 1978 et du grand écran en 1988. Elle se consacre alors au théâtre (TNP: théâtre national populaire). Elle prit sa retraite en 2010.

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France Dougnac

Movies

Gros dégueulasse
La jeune mère à la pharmacie
A fat and disgusting man is rejected by society... A vitriolic adaptation of the famous comic strip by Reiser.
La Faute
Claudie
Alors... Heureux ?
France
Hothead
Stéphanie Lefèvre
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Horoscope
Fabienne
Vincent and his friend Antoine are convinced to find fortune by following precisely their horoscope. But as they go along the zodiac forecasts, they accumulate absurd misunderstandings.
Une fille cousue de fil blanc
Claire
A young girl dies in an accident just before her wedding. But when her sister starts to look into it, she discovers the truth about her.
Bad Starters
Clotilde
15-year old schoolboy Denis and the nun Clotilde fall in love with each other. During the war the two of them take shelter at an abandoned farm and live happily together until the locals start to become suspicious.
Impossible… pas français
Catherine Brisset
Président Faust
Marguerite
A modern variation on the myth of Faust, the film features Henri Faust, an influential man at the head of a gigantic financial empire. One day, the Devil himself visits her. The Evil One offers him a range of happiness, youth, love, fortune, power; but Faust has everything he wants and he refuses the pact offered to him. However, a fault exists and the Devil will know how to discover it.
The Legend of Frenchie King
Elisabeth
Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.
Nausicaa
Agnès
A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available in reconstructed form.