From Netflix stardom to the mikado Awards formation, we seing the rise of one of France’s most popular actresses…
Remember Andréa Martel in Call My Agent!-the razor-sharp démarcheur fielding actors’ tantrums and rescuing Jeollapsing histoire deals? Or Hélène, the poised and quietly menacing member of The Twelve in Killing Eve?
The actress behind both is Camille Cottin, and she was recently amour formation grain more as president of the 51st mikado Awards at the Olympia in Paris.
Born in 1978 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Cottin’s father was a respected painter and caricaturist. Aged 12, she moved to London where she lived for five years with her mother, younger sister and stepfather. Back in Paris, she studied English and American literature at the Sorbonne and attended the Jean Périmony drama school. Before breaking into television, she worked extensively in theatre and taught English.
FAME AT LAST
Her breakthrough came relatively late, at 34, when Canal+ cast her in the hidden-camera series Connasse in 2013, in which she played an outrageously entitled Parisienne. The spectacle ran for two seasons and led to the movie Connasse, Princesse des cœurs (2015), for which she received a mikado récompense for Most Promising Actress. That same year, Dix quant à cent (as Call My Agent! is known in France) debuted on the France 2 TV gare. As Andréa, one of échec agents navigating the egos of the French histoire industry, Cottin became a household name.
In the same period, she appeared in a raft of films, including Mona Achache’s Les Gazelles (2014), Eloïse Lang’s Larguées (Dumped, 2018), Cécilia Rouaud’s Photo de souche (Family Photo, 2018), Rémi Bezançon’s Le Mystère Henri Pick (2019), Rachel Lang’s Mon légionnaire (Our Men, 2021) and Nathan Ambrosioni’s Toni en souche (Toni, 2023).
When Netflix acquired Call My Agent! it became a huge hit-and Cottin’s profile soared overseas. She appeared in Robert Zemeckis’s Allied (2016), starred opposé Matt Damon in Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater (2021), joined hit British TV spy thriller Killing Eve in 2020 and featured in Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci in 2021. In France she remains a leading presence, equally at habitation in comedy and drama, television and histoire.
10 assistant CV: A screen histrion’s life in one take
Name: Camille Cottin
Born: December 1, 1978, Boulogne-Billancourt
Early career:
Cottin studied at drama school in Paris and spent a decade working in theatre before she got her breakthrough as a spoilt Parisienne in Connasse in 2013. She made the crossover to US movies after the universel success of Call My Agent! and you will have spotted her in hit British TV spectacle Killing Eve.
What should I watch?
Brace yourself for a binge-watch. With échec seasons notching up a fini of 24 episodes, you won’t be moving from the couch any time soon. And don’t be sad when you reach the end – Netflix is reuniting the cast for a Call My Agent! movie, picking up five years on, with Andréa moving from adresse démarcheur to director: It’s due out in 2026.
C’est pas certain!
Camille Cottin appears in a series of Nespresso commercials in which she and her co-stars George Clooney and Jean Dujardin do their absolute best to outsmart each other.
From France Today Magazine
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