Julie Gayet

Julie Gayet
Gayet in 2019
Born	(1972-06-03) 3 June 1972 (age 52)[1] Suresnes, France
Occupation(s)	Actress, film producer
Spouse(s)	Santiago Amigorena ​ ​ (m. 2003; div. 2006)​ [2][3] François Hollande ​ (m. 2022)​
Awards	1997 Prix Romy Schneider[4]

Julie Gayet (pronounced [ʒyli ɡajɛ]; born 3 June 1972) is a French actress and film producer.^[4] She is also known for being the wife of the former President of France, François Hollande.^[5]

Early life and education

Gayet was born in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, where her father Brice Gayet is a professor and head of gastric surgery at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris. He was former head of the clinic to the Lariboisière Hospital and lecturer at the Faculty Xavier Bichat at Paris Diderot University. Her mother is an antique dealer.^[6] Her paternal grandfather, Alain Gayet, was also a surgeon and became a Compagnon de la Libération after World War II.^[7] She received a social liberal intellectual upbringing.^[8][9]

Gayet studied art history and psychology at university, circus skills at the circus school of the Fratellini family, and operatic singing under Tosca Marmor.^[10] At the age of 17, she studied at the Actors Studio in London with Jack Waltzer, and then continued at the Tania Balachova School in Paris.^[11]

Career

Acting

Gayet made her acting debut in a 1992 episode of the French TV series Premiers baisers,^[12] and had her first film role as an extra in Three Colors: Blue (1993).^[13] Her first role of public note was in the 1996 comedy Delphine 1, Yvan 0 by Dominique Farrugia.^[14]

Singing

Her musical performances include playing in video-clips for Benjamin Biolay and singing a duet with Marc Lavoine.^[14]

Film production

In 2007, she founded her own production company, Rouge International, with Nadia Turincev and produced films such as The Ride by Stephanie Gillard, Fix me by Palestinian Raed Andonia and Bonsai by Cristian Jimenez of Chile.^[15]

Film directing

In 2013, Gayet co-directed with Mathieu Busson the documentary Cinéast(e)s featuring 20 French female film directors.^[16]

Other

Gayet appeared on the cover of the 17 January 2014 issue of the French Elle magazine.^[17] The issue hit newsstands on 15 January 2014, two days ahead of its usual release day.^[17] The headline read "Julie Gayet, Actress and Committed Woman, a French Passion".^[17]

Personal life

In 2003, Gayet married author and screenwriter Santiago Amigorena, but they divorced in 2006.^[2][3] The couple have two children.^[18]

Gayet is a centre-left activist, having appeared in a video supporting François Hollande during the 2012 French presidential election.^[14] She is a member of the Support Committee of the PS candidate for the 2014 Paris mayoral election, Anne Hidalgo.^[19] She also supported same-sex marriage in France.

In 2013 rumours started circulating that Gayet was in a secret relationship with President Hollande.^[20] On 10 January 2014, a story in the tabloid Closer featured seven pages of alleged revelations and photos about the affair, provoking wider media coverage.^[21][22] Hollande said he "regretted this violation of his private life" and was "thinking about" pursuing a legal response, but did not deny the substance of the story.^[23][24][25] The 10 January issue was so popular that Closer "reprinted the issue, with a further 150,000 copies scheduled to hit newsstands" on 15 January 2014.^[17] On 16 January 2014, the AFP news agency reported that Gayet would sue Closer for €50,000 in damages and €4,000 in legal costs.^[26]

On 27 March 2014, a French court ordered Closer magazine to pay Gayet €15,000 ($20,700) for publishing the photos that revealed an affair between her and President Hollande.^[27] In November 2014, she was photographed with Hollande at the Élysée Palace gardens; it was revealed that her affair with Hollande was ongoing and that she was spending at least four nights a week with him there.^[28]

Gayet married former French President François Hollande on 4 June 2022 in Tulle, France.^[29]

In October 2022, she was appointed to the supervisory board of French professional rugby union club CA Brive.^[30]

Gayet is of French as well as distant Polish, German, Maltese, and Corsican Italian descent.^[31][32]

Awards

• 1997: Prix Romy Schneider for her role in Sélect Hôtel.^[4]
• 1997: Best European Actress for Sélect Hôtel, Brussels International Film Festival.^[33]
• 2009: Best Actress at the Tokyo International Film Festival for 8 fois debout [fr]

Filmography

Julie Gayet attending the 2007 Festival of American Cinema at Deauville.

Julie Gayet attending the 2019 International Film Festival at Pauillac.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Three Colors: Blue	Extra
1993	The Little Apocalypse
1993	À la belle étoile	Hannah
1994	3000 scénarios contre un virus
1994	L'Histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse	A girl in the metro
1995	One Hundred and One Nights	Camille Miralis
1996	Sélect Hôtel	Nathalie	Prix Romy Schneider Best European Actress Brussels International Film Festival.[33]
1996	Delphine 1, Yvan 0	Delphine Saban
1996	Les Deux Papas et la Maman	Sophie
1996	The Liars	Lisa
1998	Sentimental Education [fr]	Clare
1998	Ça ne se refuse pas	Marlène Kardelian
1998	Le Plaisir (et ses petits tracas)	Véra
1999	Paddy	Paddy
1999	Why Not Me?	Eva
2000	La Confusion des Genres	Babette
2000	Les Gens qui s'aiment	Winnie
2000	Nag la bombe	Rosine, la serveuse
2001	Vertiges de l'amour	Jeanne
2002	Après la pluie, le beau temps	Rose Bonbon
2002	Novo	Julie
2002	Un monde presque paisible	Mme Andrée
2002	Chaos and Desire	Catherine
2002	Ma Caméra et moi	Lucie
2003	Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés	Rita
2004	Ce qu'ils imaginent	Sarah
2004	Clara et moi	Clara
2005	Camping à la ferme	The judge
2005	Bab el web	Laurence
2006	A Woman in Winter	Caroline
2006	Le Lièvre de Vatanen	Olga
2006	My Best Friend	Catherine
2006	De particulier à particulier	Sophie
2007	Shall We Kiss?	Émilie
2007	Les Fourmis rouges	Anne
2008	Childhoods	mother of Fritz Lang
2009	8 fois debout	Elsa	Best Actress – Tokyo International Film Festival
2009	Eleanor's Secret	Mom (voice)
2010	Sans laisser de traces	Clémence
2010	Pièce montée	Laurence
2010	L'Apprenti Père Noël
2011	L'Art de séduire	Hélène
2011	The Shape of Art to Come
2011	Carré blanc	Marie
2011	Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying	Sylvie
2012	After	Julie
2012	Au cas où je n'aurais pas la palme d'or	Julia
2012	Nos plus belles vacances	Isabelle
2013	Les Âmes de papier	Emma
2013	Quai d'Orsay	Valérie Dumontheil
2013	Another House (L'autre maison)	Charlotte
2015	Jailbirds	Nadège Rutter
2016	We Are Family	Sophie
2018	Love Addict	Martha
2019	C'est quoi cette Mamie?!	Sophie
2021	C'est quoi cette Pappy?!	Sophie
2023	Comme une actrice	Anna

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Premiers baisers		TV series, one episode
1994	Ferbac		TV series, one episode
1994	La Vie de Marianne	Mademoiselle de Fare
1997	Maître Da Costa		TV series, one episode
2001	Sang d'encre	Monica
2004	Bien agités !	Diane
2004	3 garçons, 1 fille, 2 mariages	Camille
2005	Les Rois maudits	Isabelle de France	Miniseries
2006	Le Rainbow Warrior	Dominique Prieur
2007	La Légende des trois clefs	Béatrice Sancier
2007	Elles et Moi	Florence de Montellier
2010	Famille décomposée	Doris
2010	Clandestin	Sophie
2011	V comme Vian	Michelle Vian
2011	Amoureuse [fr]	Iona Gorrigan
2011	J'étais à Nüremberg	Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
2012	Emma	Irène
2013	Odysseus	Helen of Troy
2013	Alias Caracalla	Madame Moret
2014	Ça va passer... Mais quand ?	Sophie
2015	Call My Agent!	Herself	TV series (1 episode)
2019	Soupçons (Torn)	Victoire	TV series (6 episodes)
2021	Une mère parfaite	Helene Berg	TV series (4 episodes)
2022	Disparition inquiétante	Gabrielle Perez	TV series (1 Episode)
2023	Les Mystères de la marée	Emilie Lagne	TV series
2024	Olympe, une femme dans la Révolution	Olympe de Gouges	TV series
2026	Mr. Trillion: The Dynamic Man	Kelly Gentiloni	TV series

Short films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Sans transition
1996	Vive le cinéma !
1996	15 sans billets
1997	Pédagogie
1997	Play
1998	Je ne veux pas être sage
1998	Baby Blues
2003	Rêver
2006	Un secret derrière la porte
2007	Fin
2009	Le Petit Homme bleu
2009	Une dernière cigarette
2009	De plaisir

As director

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Cinéast(e)s		Co-directed with Mathieu Busson

As producer

Year	Title	Notes
2009	8 fois debout
2009	Fix ME
2010	Dowaha	Co-producer
2011	Bonsai
2013	A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
2015	The Boss's Daughter
2015	Jailbirds
2016	The Ride

Videoclips

Year	Title	Notes
2007	Laisse aboyer les chiens	For Benjamin Biolay
2007	Dans la Merco Benz	For Benjamin Biolay
2007	Qu'est-ce que ça peut faire ?	For Benjamin Biolay

Songs

• Duet with Marc Lavoine on the song Avec toi from the album Je descends du singe (2012).

References

1. Extrait de naissance n° 1086/1972 sur Les Gens du Cinéma
2. "Serieusement Feminin. 10 Jan 2014, Julie Gayet : qui est l'actrice dont tout le monde parle ?". Terrafemina. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
3. "Europe Soir. 13 January 2014, Interview of Santiago Amigorena". Dailymotion. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
4. Cinq choses à savoir sur l'actrice Julie Gayet L'Express. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014 (in French)
5. Fogiel, Marc-Olivier (5 October 2016). "Julie Gayet "joue un rôle de première dame virtuelle, officieuse, mais présente", estime Pauline Delassus". RTL (in French).
6. "Who Is Julie Gayet, Alleged Lover of French President Francois Hollande? by Samantha Paine". International Business Times. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
7. "Journal l'Union". 25 January 2014.
8. "Julie Gayet, ou la revanche de Ségolène Royal". Le Point. 11 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
9. Héloïse Leussier (29 June 2004). "Julie Gayet, une actrice cultivée et engagée". RTL (in French). Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
10. "VIDEOS. Cinq choses à savoir sur l'actrice Julie Gayet". 10 January 2014.
11. "Biographie de Julie Gayet". Premiere. 3 June 1972.
12. Céline Bayet (10 January 2014). "Quand Julie Gayet jouait dans "Premiers Baisers"". 7sur7. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
13. "Julie Gayet". L'Internaute. 11 May 2022.
14. "Julie Gayet, actrice mais aussi militante, by Delphine Perez". La Parisienne. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
15. Laubie, Sophie (10 January 2014). "Julie Gayet: French president's alleged actress lover". Yahoo. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
16. Cinéast(e)s Télérama. Retrieved 10 January 2014 (in French)
17. Alex Wynne and Laure Guilbault (16 January 2014). "Pressure Mounts Against President Hollande". WWD. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
18. "Timeline: Hollande's partners". BBC. 25 January 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
19. Anne Penketh (12 January 2014). "François Hollande's ex-partner: France should 'turn page' on reported affair". The Observer. The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
20. Julie Gayet et François Hollande sont-ils en couple L'Express
21. Vie privée : Hollande veut porter plainte contre « Closer »Le Monde, 10 January 2014
22. Le Figaro 10 January 2014
23. ""Closer" va retirer toute mention de l'affaire Gayet/Hollande sur son site". Le Parisien. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
24. > Par Benjamin Bonneau et Alexandre Kara <!. "Closer: Hollande regrette mais ne dément pas". Europe1. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
25. "French President François Hollande rebuffs media on alleged affair with Julie Gayet: 'These are painful moments, but private matters should be dealt with privately'". The Independent. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
26. "Julie Gayet sues Closer over Hollande 'affair' report". BBC News. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
27. "Actress Gayet wins privacy lawsuit versus tabloid in Hollande affair". Reuters. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
28. Bacchi, Umberto (21 November 2014). "Francois Hollande Pictured with Lover Julie Gayet at Elysée Palace". Internacional Business Times UK. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
29. Francetvinfo
30. Pommier, Benjamin (6 October 2022). "Un nouveau mode de gouvernance au CA Brive avec un directoire et un conseil de surveillance où va notamment siéger... Julie Gayet". La Montagne (in French). Retrieved 9 October 2022.
31. Généalogie, La Revue française de. "Julie Gayet une généalogie pleine de promesses..." La Revue française de Généalogie (in French). Retrieved 5 January 2022.
32. magazine, Généalogie (25 May 2014). "Généalogies célèbres – Julie Gayet". Le blog de Généalogie-Magazine (in French). Retrieved 5 January 2022.
33. Brussels International Film Festival. Role of Honour.

External links

• Julie Gayet at IMDb
• Julie Gayet Filmography at Allocine.