Anne Fontaine

Biography

Anne Fontaine (born in Luxembourg, 1959) is a filmmaker and screenwriter who used to be an actor. She lives and works in France. Born Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral organist. In adolescence she moved to Paris and trained in dance with Joseph Russillo while continuing her academic education, including philosophy. Her husband is Philippe Carcassonne, the film producer, and they have an adopted son who was born in Vietnam. While still dancing, she was picked by Robert Hossein to play Esmeralda in a 1980 theatrical production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and around this time started to use the name Anne Fontaine. She continued with acting and became known for her roles in comedies like Si ma gueule vous plaît... (1981) and P.R.O.F.S.(1985). An opportunity to be assistant director came with a 1986 stage version of Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) at the Renaud-Barrault theatre. Fontaine's first project as solo director, Les histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général (Love Affairs Usua…

Directed

1. Adoration (2013) — Director
2. Coco Before Chanel (2009) — Director
3. The Innocents (2016) — Director
4. Gemma Bovery (2014) — Director
5. My Worst Nightmare (2011) — Director
6. Night Shift (2020) — Director
7. Presidents (2021) — Director
8. Reinventing Marvin (2017) — Director
9. White as Snow (2019) — Director
10. The Girl from Monaco (2008) — Director
11. Nathalie... (2003) — Director
12. Boléro (2024) — Director
13. In His Hands (2005) — Director
14. Dry Cleaning (1997) — Director
15. How I Killed My Father (2001) — Director
16. Augustin, King of Kung-Fu (1999) — Director
17. Nouvelle chance (2006) — Director
18. Augustin (1995) — Director
19. Love Affairs Usually End Badly (1993) — Director
20. Night Hustler (1996) — Director
21. Love Reinvented (1997) — Director
22. Monique et Matisse — Director
23. Le Serpent majuscule — Director
24. Love Reinvented (1996) — Director

Also appeared in

1. P.R.O.F.S. (1985) — Marite
2. Tender Cousins (1980) — Justine
3. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) — Self
4. Keep It Quiet (1999) — Nathalie
5. Vivement dimanche (1998) — Self
6. Softly from Paris (1986) — Sophie
7. The Last Romantic Lover (1978)
8. Si ma gueule vous plaît... (1981) — Isabelle
9. Les Mystères de Paris (1980) — Sarah
10. A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002) — Self
11. Vidéo Club (2018) — Self
12. Conversation avec Anne Fontaine (2025) — Self - Filmmaker