Personal Info
Birth date
1950-02-22 (75 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Paris, France
Also known as
Sylvette Herry
Miou Miou
Miou-Miou
Biography
Miou-Miou (born 22 February 1950) is a French actress. In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Yves Boisset, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Michel Deville, Diane Kurys, Radu Mihăileanu, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle.
Filmography
Apostrophes
8.5
Overview:
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.The Art of Crime
6.5
Overview:
Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.L'Incroyable Embouteillage
5
Overview:
It’s the big start of the summer holidays! Somewhere in France, on a small country road cut off from the world, hundreds of cars are suddenly stuck in a traffic jam that seems endless. This incident, which seems trivial, will then create a multitude of situations, funny, quirky, and more surprising than the last. Because we know well that it is in adversity that personalities are revealed.On n'est pas couché
5.2
Overview:
On n'est pas couché was a French talk show broadcast on France 2 on Saturdays at 11 p.m., hosted by Laurent Ruquier assisted by various columnists.Nona and Her Daughters
7.3
Overview:
Actor-turned-director Valérie Donzelli brings us Nona and Her Daughters, a delightful 30-minute dramedy series on the theme of motherhood. Nona, brought to life by the enchanting Miou-Miou (Going Places, Entre Nous) is a 70-year-old feminist. She’s madly in love with André and finally free of taking care of her daughters — 40-year-old triplets played by Virginie Ledoyen, Clotilde Hesme and Valérie Donzelli, herself. She adores her family, life is beautiful and she’s living it to the fullest… Until the day she discovers that she’s pregnant!The Islanders
6.667
Overview:
The story takes us to an island with no future, given that it’s already partly submerged underwater. A woman is caring for ten or so very elderly individuals, but the arrival of five travellers turns their lives upside down…Memoirs of a French Whore
6.286
Overview:
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution. From within homes to out on the streets, the young woman gradually discovers a world of decay and violence.The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
7.396
Overview:
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.The Last Mercenary
6.424
Overview:
A legendary secret service agent comes out of hiding and returns to France to help the son he's never met get out of trouble.Going Places
6.778
Overview:
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.All Your Faces
7.996
Overview:
Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.Populaire
6.618
Overview:
An insurance agent and his new secretary become locked in the grip of romance and competition as they train together for a speed-typing contest.Little Indian, Big City
5.965
Overview:
Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?The Science of Sleep
6.996
Overview:
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.In Safe Hands
7.422
Overview:
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.The Eighth Day
7.356
Overview:
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.The Year 01
6.525
Overview:
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.Dog Day
5.226
Overview:
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.The Concert
7.2
Overview:
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.Acting
TBAÉté 36 (1 Episode) as Unknown
2026Chers parents as Alice Gauthier
2025Flash(s) - Double Vue as Claire Morvan
2025The Islanders as Anna
2023Flash(s) as Claire
2023Flash(s) (2 Episodes) as Claire
2023L'Incroyable Embouteillage (2 Episodes) as Chantal
2023All Your Faces as Sabine
2023Constance aux enfers as Constance
2022Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2022Maestro(s) as Hélène Dumar
2022Patrick Dewaere, My Hero as Self (archive footage) - actress
2022Murder Party as Joséphine
2022Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70 as Self - actor (archive footage)
2022La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président as Self (archive footage)
2021Nona and Her Daughters (9 Episodes) as Nona / Elizabeth Périer
2021The Last Mercenary as Marguerite
2020The Morning After as Andréa Lucciani
2018In Safe Hands as Irène
2018Mireille Darc, la femme libre as Self (archive footage)
2018Dumped as Françoise
2018Family Business as Brigitte
2017The Art of Crime (2 Episodes) as Catherine Dutilleul
2013Landes as Madeleine
2013Bob et les Sex Pistaches as Unknown
2013Arrest Me as Pontoise
2012Populaire as Madeleine Échard
2012Avanti as Catherine
2012Welcome Aboard as Alice
2012Twice Upon a Time as Jacqueline
2011Welcome, Kaniusha as Adèle
2011L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues as Unknown
2010A Spot of Bother as Anne Muret
2009The Concert as Guylène de La Rivière
2009Petites vacances à Knokke-le-Zoute as Micheline
2009Pour un fils as Catherine
2008Mia and the Migoo as Julette, la mère d’Aldrin
2008Les murs porteurs as Judith Rosenfeld
2008Family Values as Laure Guignebont
2008The Great Alibi as Eliane Pages
2006Family Hero as Simone Garcia
2006On n'est pas couché (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2006The Science of Sleep as Christine Miroux
2006April in Love as Sœur Bernadette
2006Riviera as Antoinette
2005One Stays, the Other Leaves as Anne-Marie
2004The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas as Michel Arc's wife
2004A Wonderful Spell as Alida
2004Mariages! as Gabrielle
2004Ambre a disparu (2 Episodes) as Capitaine Eva Lorca
2001Agathe et le grand magasin as Agathe
2000Everything's Fine, We're Leaving as Laure
1998Foul Play as Miou-Miou
1998Vivement dimanche (3 Episodes) as Self
1997Women as Eva
1997Dry Cleaning as Nicole Kunstler
1996The Eighth Day as Julie
1996Ma femme me quitte as Joanna Martin
1995Une femme dans la tourmente as Michèle Rouannet
1994Little Indian, Big City as Patricia
1994Montparnasse-Pondichéry as Julie
1993Germinal as 'La Maheude'
1993Tango as Marie
1992Le Bal des casse-pieds as Louise Sherry
1991The Jackpot! as Hélène Voisin
1991Netchayev is Back as Brigitte
1991Scènes de ménage as Unknown
1990Stars 90 (1 Episode) as Self
1990May Fools as Camille
1988L'Argent as Caroline Hamelin
1988La Lectrice as Constance / Marie
1988The Revolving Doors as Lauda
1986Ménage as Monique
1985Blanche and Marie as Blanche
1984The Flight of the Phoenix as Laura
1984Dog Day as Jessica
1983My Other Husband as Alice
1983Entre Nous as Madeleine
1982Guy de Maupassant as Gisèle d'Estoc
1982Josepha as Josépha Manet
1982Champs-Elysées (4 Episodes) as Self
1981La Gueule du loup as Marie
1981Is This Reasonable? as Julie Boucher, journalist at “Nice Matin”
1980La Femme flic as Inspecteur Corinne Levasseur
1979Memoirs of a French Whore as Marie
1979Bye, See You Monday as Nicole
1979Traffic Jam as Angela
1978Roads to the South as Julia
1977Tell Her That I Love Her as Juliette
1976Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 as Marie
1976The Bottom Line as Christine
1976F as in Fairbanks as Marie
1976Love and Cool Water as Rita Gonzalez
1976Victory March as Rosanna
1976Pleased To See You Again as Patrizia
1975A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot as Lucy
1975No Problem! as Anita Boucher
1975Numéro un (1 Episode) as Self
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (3 Episodes) as Self
1975Apostrophes (1 Episode) as Self
1974Spécial cinéma (3 Episodes) as Self
1974Tender Dracula as Marie
1974Going Places as Marie-Ange
1973The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob as Antoinette Pivert
1973The Burned Barns as Monique Cateux
1973Themroc as Neighbor, La jeune voisine
1973The Year 01 as The woman who wakes up at 6 o'clock
1973Some Too Quiet Gentlemen as Anita
1972It Comes, It Goes as Unknown
1972La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur as Young Woman
1971On the Lam as Petit Ecureuil
Directing
2020Les espionnes racontent (6 Episodes) ... Action Director