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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Complete Filmography
Man's Skin
2026
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
At the Maison des Femmes, women victims of violence are cared for. Elsewhere, they are threatened, brutalized, raped, mutilated, their suffering ignor...

Fils de
2025
as Anne Chalamont
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
2025
as Voix
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
2025
as Cancer Specialist
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
2024
as Madame de Sévigné
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
2024
as Elle-même
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
2023
as Diane
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
2023
as Nathalie
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
2023
Screenplay, Associate Producer
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
2023
as Charlotte
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!
2023
as Catherine
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
2023
as Nathalie
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
2022
as Maria
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
2022
as Aline
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
2022
as Woman who comes to get the raclette machine
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
2021
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
2021
as Miranda Bloomberg
Parody of the acclaimed Australian series of the 80s, Return to Eden. Wealthy heiress Stephanie Harper marries athlete Craig Danners, without suspecti...

Fantasies
2021
as Lili Michel (sketch 'Antagonistophilie')
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
2021
as Alexandra Pacquart
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
2021
as Narrator (voice)
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
2021
Vocals
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
2020
as Valérie
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
2020
as Eve
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
2019
as Louise
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
2018
as Mado Le Nadant
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
2018
as Véro
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 !
2018
as Marquise de Grand-Air
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
2017
as Nathalie Pécheux
A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.

A Bun in the Oven
2016
as Nicole
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
2016
as Adélaïde de Montmirail
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
2015
as Christine Dubreuil
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
2015
as Pattie
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
2015
as Forence Deffe
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
2015
as Ariane
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
2014
as Gigi Bélier
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
2014
as Marithé Bressy
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
2014
as Christine
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

Lulu in the Nude
2013
as Lulu
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
2013
as Marianne
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
2013
Inspired by the American program Saturday Night Live from NBC, around thirty actors take part in various humorous sketches.

It Happened in Saint-Tropez
2013
as Une people à Cannes soirée Melko
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
2012
as Yann Piat
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
2012
as Claire Martin / Mélina
A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.

Polisse
2011
as Nadine
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
2011
as Adult Albertine
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
2011
as France
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
2011
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
2010
as Irène Janus
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
2010
as Nadège
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
2010
as Babette
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
2009
as Chloe
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
2009
as Marie-Laurence
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.

All About Actresses
2009
as Karin Viard
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
2008
as Alexandra

Hikers in Saint-Tropez
2008
as Coralie
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
2008
as La Boulangère
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
2007
as Isabelle
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
2007
as Anne
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
2007
as Juliette "Juju" Gotchac
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
2007
as Judith Zahn
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
2005
as Céline
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
2005
as Jeanne Lancry
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
2005
as Marlène Davert
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
2004
as Nina
Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.

The Hook
2004
as Suzy Castelano
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
2004
as Claire Rocher
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
2003
as France
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
Anne is thirty six ears old, her friends decide to organize a surprise birthday party where boys are excluded.

Summer Things
2002
as Véro
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
2001
as Hortense Lassalle
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
2001
as Muriel
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
2001
as Marianne Fauvel
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
2000
as Eve
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
1999
as Emma
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
1999
as Marie Dorval
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
1999
as Lola
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
1999
as Camille
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
1997
as Monica
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
1997
as Marguerite
On a sunday, Marguerite and Mario meet while waiting for the train.
Où tu vas
1997
as Nadine
Fired from his work and left by his girlfriend, Jean falls into despair

Hikers
1997
as Coralie
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
Carole sees her parents twice a year in Paris.

Les Victimes
1996
as Claire
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
1996
as Charlotte
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
1996
as Rosemonde
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
Vincent and Claire are in their thirty's. They meet at Vincent's flat where he starts playing a perverse game.

Fast
1995
as La fille aux cheveux jaunes (comme des frites)
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
1995
as Art Gallery Girl #2
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)
1995
as Fabienne
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
1995
as Sophie
Authentically painful study of an ill-matched couple's forlorn attempts to revive their relationship after a two-year break.

Le fils préféré
1994
as Martine
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
1994
as Claire
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
1993
as Clara
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...
1993
as Cécile
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
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
Three girls are stopped on the side of the road. A man drives by and stops to meet them.
Zone Bleue
1993
as Violette
In a neighborhood threatened of destruction and where a majority of marginalized people live, Violette, a painter finds her friend Pierre.

Little Nothings
1992
as Isabelle
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
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

Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
1991
as Philippine
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming
L'Amant de ma sœur
1991
as Elise
Story about Elise and Helene, two sisters who do everything alike.

Delicatessen
1991
as Mademoiselle Plusse
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
1991
as Karin
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
1990
as Agathe
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
No available plot
L'Amour en marche
1986
as Karin
La Goula
1986
as Karin
Species
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Le Coeur fou
N/A
as Simone