Karin Viard

Karin Viard

1966-01-24 Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France 112 Credits

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Karin Viard (born 24 January 1966) is a multi-award-winning French actress. She made her film debut in Tatie Danielle in 1990. Since then she has appeared in such films as Delicatessen, L'Emploi du temps (Time Out), Adultère, mode d'emploi and La parenthèse enchantée. She was a member of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival jury. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karin Viard  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Man's Skin

2026

Acting

Bianca is a young woman in Renaissance Italy who is promised in an arranged marriage. She inherits a strange power passed down by the women in her fam...

La maison des femmes

2025

Acting

At the Maison des Femmes, women victims of violence are cared for. Elsewhere, they are threatened, brutalized, raped, mutilated, their suffering ignor...

Fils de

Fils de

2025

as Anne Chalamont

Acting

A week after the presidential election, France is still searching for its Prime Minister. Nino, an ambitious young parliamentary attaché, is tasked w...

Suzanne Valadon, peintre sans concession

Suzanne Valadon, peintre sans concession

2025

as Voix

6.0
Acting

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) did not seem destined for a life as an artist. Born in 1865 as the daughter of a single washerwoman and mother herself at ...

The Last Breath

The Last Breath

2025

as Cancer Specialist

5.2
Acting

In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of encounters in...

Madame de Sévigné

Madame de Sévigné

2024

as Madame de Sévigné

5.3
Acting

In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman in her own image. But the mor...

Rire (enfin) au féminin

Rire (enfin) au féminin

2024

as Elle-même

Acting

For a long time, in France, comedy was the preserve of men. Female roles were mostly secondary and corresponded to stereotypes such as the pretty doll...

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

2023

as Diane

6.0
Acting

Alain and Diane have been together for 30 years. In his mind, Alain is still 30 years old. But the equation 30 years of routine feelings, empty nest (...

Strangers by Night

Strangers by Night

2023

as Nathalie

6.3
Acting

In a crowded subway train, a woman pushes a man. They argue. Their little joust "barks loudly", but does not lack charm... Later, in the corridors of ...

Strangers by Night

Strangers by Night

2023

Screenplay, Associate Producer

6.3
Writing Producing

In a crowded subway train, a woman pushes a man. They argue. Their little joust "barks loudly", but does not lack charm... Later, in the corridors of ...

Magnificat

Magnificat

2023

as Charlotte

6.0
Acting

When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing...

Wow!

Wow!

2023

as Catherine

5.2
Acting

Catherine and Oracio are real estate advisors, and are visiting two properties in quick succession: a large bourgeois house "which can have a swimming...

Sage homme

Sage homme

2023

as Nathalie

7.1
Acting

After failing the medical entrance exam, Léopold enters midwifery school by default, hiding the truth from those around him. While he is unconvinced o...

Maria into Life

Maria into Life

2022

as Maria

5.9
Acting

Maria is a cleaning lady, who is reserved, shy and clumsy. When she is assigned to the School of Fine Arts, she meets Hubert, the school's whimsical g...

An Ordinary Mother

An Ordinary Mother

2022

as Aline

5.9
Acting

Aline never managed to get closure from the death of her 17-year-old son in a street fight. When she sees the assai- lant recently released from priso...

Three Times Nothing

Three Times Nothing

2022

as Woman who comes to get the raclette machine

6.2
Acting

Twig, Cap and Rusty live however they can in the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. This may completely change the day they learn they are the national...

Teach Me If You Can

Teach Me If You Can

2021

Acting

From a Siberian nomads’ camp buried under snow to the remote bush of Burkina Faso, passing by the flooded lands of Bangladesh, Émilie Thérond follows ...

Saddle Up For Revenge

Saddle Up For Revenge

2021

as Miranda Bloomberg

5.2
Acting

Parody of the acclaimed Australian series of the 80s, Return to Eden. Wealthy heiress Stephanie Harper marries athlete Craig Danners, without suspecti...

Fantasies

Fantasies

2021

as Lili Michel (sketch 'Antagonistophilie')

5.1
Acting

Faced with their fantasies, six couples try to explore the hidden sides of their intimate life. Six questions on access to pleasure. From role play to...

Tokyo Shaking

Tokyo Shaking

2021

as Alexandra Pacquart

6.1
Acting

March 11, 2011. The biggest tsunami Japan has ever experienced triggers the Fukushima disaster. Risks are being downplayed but the foreign community i...

Teach Me If You Can

Teach Me If You Can

2021

as Narrator (voice)

7.0
Acting

The three teachers Svetlana, Sandrine and Taslima teach children and young people in places that are hardly accessible for “normal” lessons - in a nom...

Teach Me If You Can

Teach Me If You Can

2021

Vocals

7.0

The three teachers Svetlana, Sandrine and Taslima teach children and young people in places that are hardly accessible for “normal” lessons - in a nom...

Dear Mother

Dear Mother

2020

as Valérie

5.8
Acting

One day, Jean-Louis discovers that his heart has stopped. He is not dead, can walk and talk, but his heart is no longer beating. With the help of his ...

Appearances

Appearances

2020

as Eve

5.9
Acting

Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The perfect picture crumbles when Ève discov...

Perfect Nanny

Perfect Nanny

2019

as Louise

6.0
Acting

When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume her activity in a law firm, the couple is look...

Little Tickles

Little Tickles

2018

as Mado Le Nadant

7.4
Acting

Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and sou...

Kiss & Tell

Kiss & Tell

2018

as Véro

5.8
Acting

Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Eliza...

Bécassine !

Bécassine !

2018

as Marquise de Grand-Air

4.8
Acting

Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely baby named...

Jealous

Jealous

2017

as Nathalie Pécheux

5.9
Acting

A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.

A Bun in the Oven

A Bun in the Oven

2016

as Nicole

5.6
Acting

There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her lif...

The Visitors: Bastille Day

The Visitors: Bastille Day

2016

as Adélaïde de Montmirail

4.1
Acting

Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social u...

The Roommates Party

The Roommates Party

2015

as Christine Dubreuil

4.9
Acting

An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le G...

21 Nights with Pattie

21 Nights with Pattie

2015

as Pattie

5.7
Acting

During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organ...

Families

Families

2015

as Forence Deffe

4.6
Acting

Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, wh...

Lolo

Lolo

2015

as Ariane

5.3
Acting

On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René. Against all odds, there’s a real chemistry...

The Bélier Family

The Bélier Family

2014

as Gigi Bélier

6.9
Acting

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it ...

The Chef's Wife

The Chef's Wife

2014

as Marithé Bressy

5.1
Acting

The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her u...

Week-ends

Week-ends

2014

as Christine

4.1
Acting

It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go,...

Le Débarquement 2

2013

as Various Characters

5.5
Acting
Lulu in the Nude

Lulu in the Nude

2013

as Lulu

6.2
Acting

After a job interview gone wrong, Lulu sets sail leaving her husband and three children behind. But being an adventurer is easier said than done.

Love Is the Perfect Crime

Love Is the Perfect Crime

2013

as Marianne

5.6
Acting

Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, ...

Le Débarquement

Le Débarquement

2013

5.1
Acting

Inspired by the American program Saturday Night Live from NBC, around thirty actors take part in various humorous sketches.

It Happened in Saint-Tropez

It Happened in Saint-Tropez

2013

as Une people à Cannes soirée Melko

5.4
Acting

Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. Th...

Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder

Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder

2012

as Yann Piat

6.1
Acting

February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition in...

On Air

On Air

2012

as Claire Martin / Mélina

5.8
Acting

A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.

Polisse

Polisse

2011

as Nadine

7.8
Acting

Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed ag...

Skylab

Skylab

2011

as Adult Albertine

6.1
Acting

It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that ...

My Piece of the Pie

My Piece of the Pie

2011

as France

5.7
Acting

France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workm...

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues

2011

7.0
Acting

They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose...

Nothing to Declare

Nothing to Declare

2010

as Irène Janus

5.9
Acting

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Trophy Wife

Trophy Wife

2010

as Nadège

6.1
Acting

In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acqu...

My Father's Guests

My Father's Guests

2010

as Babette

5.9
Acting

A human-rights activist takes in an illegal immigrant and her daughter, then shocks his family when they learn that he has married the sexy 28-year-ol...

Happy End

Happy End

2009

as Chloe

5.5
Acting

Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm...

Change of Plans

Change of Plans

2009

as Marie-Laurence

5.4
Acting

So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.

All About Actresses

All About Actresses

2009

as Karin Viard

5.9
Acting

A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgo...

Baby Blues

Baby Blues

2008

as Alexandra

5.1
Acting
Hikers in Saint-Tropez

Hikers in Saint-Tropez

2008

as Coralie

5.0
Acting

Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer together on t...

Paris

Paris

2008

as La Boulangère

6.5
Acting

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has...

La Face cachée

La Face cachée

2007

as Isabelle

6.1
Acting

François and Isa have been living side by side for years. François strums fruitlessly on his piano and makes half-hearted attempts to build a wall cab...

True Enough

True Enough

2007

as Anne

5.5
Acting

Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and...

In Mom's Head

In Mom's Head

2007

as Juliette "Juju" Gotchac

5.2
Acting

Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.

Ambitious

Ambitious

2007

as Judith Zahn

4.8
Acting

On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookse...

Hell

Hell

2005

as Céline

6.1
Acting

Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

The Children

The Children

2005

as Jeanne Lancry

5.2
Acting

Pierre Esteban is a middle-aged technology teacher, divorced from Hélène, who has two children. Jeanne Lancry is a lively estate agent in the same sit...

The Ax

The Ax

2005

as Marlène Davert

6.9
Acting

A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

The Ex-Wife of My Life

The Ex-Wife of My Life

2004

as Nina

4.5
Acting

Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.

The Hook

The Hook

2004

as Suzy Castelano

5.9
Acting

A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.

The Role of Her Life

The Role of Her Life

2004

as Claire Rocher

6.0
Acting

A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego.

France Boutique

France Boutique

2003

as France

4.9
Acting

Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with ...

Mes copines

2002

as Karin

Acting

Anne is thirty six ears old, her friends decide to organize a surprise birthday party where boys are excluded.

Summer Things

Summer Things

2002

as Véro

5.9
Acting

Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it ...

A Hell of a Day

A Hell of a Day

2001

as Hortense Lassalle

6.1
Acting

Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired fr...

Time Out

Time Out

2001

as Muriel

6.6
Acting

An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.

Children's Play

Children's Play

2001

as Marianne Fauvel

4.8
Acting

Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives a...

Enchanted Interlude

Enchanted Interlude

2000

as Eve

5.5
Acting

Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series...

Battle Cries

Battle Cries

1999

as Emma

5.8
Acting

A woman in the fourth month of her first pregnancy fights to save the baby while being treated for breast cancer.

The Children of the Century

The Children of the Century

1999

as Marie Dorval

5.9
Acting

True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But the...

Sitcom, A Movie

Sitcom, A Movie

1999

as Lola

4.5
Acting

In the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of th...

The New Eve

The New Eve

1999

as Camille

5.4
Acting

Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of ephemera...

Je ne vois pas ce qu'on me trouve

Je ne vois pas ce qu'on me trouve

1997

as Monica

3.7
Acting

24 hours in a man's life who became famous. He returns in his childhood's city after 30 years of absence

Rouen, cinq minutes d'arrêt

Rouen, cinq minutes d'arrêt

1997

as Marguerite

6.0
Acting

On a sunday, Marguerite and Mario meet while waiting for the train.

Où tu vas

1997

as Nadine

Acting

Fired from his work and left by his girlfriend, Jean falls into despair

Hikers

Hikers

1997

as Coralie

5.7
Acting

A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.

Une visite

1996

as Carole

Acting

Carole sees her parents twice a year in Paris.

Les Victimes

Les Victimes

1996

as Claire

4.5
Acting

Paris, 1996. Parisian editor Pierre Duval has an affair with Claire, wife of wealthy architect Bernard Jaillac. The latter has to supervise a large-sc...

Diary of a Seducer

Diary of a Seducer

1996

as Charlotte

5.2
Acting

Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At scho...

Fourbi

Fourbi

1996

as Rosemonde

5.1
Acting

Writer Paul attempts to interview Rosemonde, a young woman who killed an alleged rapist in self-defense six years prior, for a true crime television p...

Une journée entière sans mentir

1996

as Claire

Acting

Vincent and Claire are in their thirty's. They meet at Vincent's flat where he starts playing a perverse game.

Fast

Fast

1995

as La fille aux cheveux jaunes (comme des frites)

6.1
Acting

Jean-Louis is an naive, amiable orphan who spent his life with his elderly and very strict grandfather. Jean-Louis was a 25-year old virgin when a fre...

La Haine

La Haine

1995

as Art Gallery Girl #2

8.1
Acting

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news ...

Adultery (A User's Guide)

Adultery (A User's Guide)

1995

as Fabienne

4.2
Acting

This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the re...

Emmène-moi

Emmène-moi

1995

as Sophie

5.3
Acting

Authentically painful study of an ill-matched couple's forlorn attempts to revive their relationship after a two-year break.

Le fils préféré

Le fils préféré

1994

as Martine

6.6
Acting

Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies....

La Séparation

La Séparation

1994

as Claire

6.1
Acting

In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laure...

Sidestroke

Sidestroke

1993

as Clara

4.6
Acting

Clara (Karin Viard) is a stripper with a high-strung, jealous boyfriend with the curious name of Loockeed (Antoine Chappey). The couple are friends wi...

Ce que femme veut...

Ce que femme veut...

1993

as Cécile

Acting

Cécile is twenty. She is expecting a child from Pierre, who is thirty-five. She goes through her pregnancy with peace of mind. Quite unlike Pierre, wh...

Urgence d'aimer

1993

as Anne-Victoire

4.0
Acting

Joëlle, a simple and energetic young woman, works as a hairdresser for Mrs. Delbarre. When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks her to don...

Elles étaient trois

1993

as Karin

Acting

Three girls are stopped on the side of the road. A man drives by and stops to meet them.

Zone Bleue

1993

as Violette

Acting

In a neighborhood threatened of destruction and where a majority of marginalized people live, Violette, a painter finds her friend Pierre.

Little Nothings

Little Nothings

1992

as Isabelle

6.2
Acting

Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He dec...

Rhesus-Romeo

1992

as Anne-victoire

Acting

When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks Joëlle, a simple young girl, to donate her bone marrow in view of a transplant, she agrees witho...

Strangers dans la nuit

1991

as Noëlle Faucher

Acting
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles

Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles

1991

as Philippine

3.0
Acting

A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming

L'Amant de ma sœur

1991

as Elise

Acting

Story about Elise and Helene, two sisters who do everything alike.

Delicatessen

Delicatessen

1991

as Mademoiselle Plusse

7.3
Acting

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low sup...

25 décembre 58, 10h36

25 décembre 58, 10h36

1991

as Karin

Acting

Two children are cycling in a street of the Butte Montmartre, one of them falls and kills himself on the spot. The witnesses of the tragedy meet again...

Auntie Danielle

Auntie Danielle

1990

as Agathe

6.5
Acting

Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title cha...

La mort d'une vache

1990

as La bouchère

Acting

No available plot

L'Amour en marche

1986

as Karin

Acting

La Goula

1986

as Karin

Acting

Species

N/A

Acting

Le Coeur fou

N/A

as Simone

Acting