Évelyne Bouix

Évelyne Bouix — Biography

French actress Évelyne Bouix has worked on stage and screen, in both theatre and cinema, since 1970. She has appeared in more than sixty productions, and her name is most closely tied to Fantine in Les Misérables and Edith Piaf in Édith et Marcel. In 1999 she was made a Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite.

In her first years she appeared in Claude Sautet's Vincent, François, Paul and the Others and in works such as Rene the Cane (1977). Around 1980 she took part in Jacko and Lise (as Lise), Haine, Les Uns et les Autres and Bolero. Her real breakthrough came in 1982-83, when she played Fantine in Les Misérables and then Edith Piaf in Édith et Marcel. In the following years she appeared in films such as Viva la vie (1984), Partir, revenir (1985) and Ni avec toi, ni sans toi, and she played Françoise in A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986).

In the 1990s she played Marilyne Grandin in Tout ça... pour ça ! (1993) and Madame Vigée Lebrun in Beaumarchais (1996). In the 2000s she stayed on screen with Remake (2003) and Musée haut, musée bas (2008). She is married to the actor Pierre Arditi.