Biography
Géraldine Pailhas (born 8 January 1971 is a French actress. She had her first international success in 1995 as Doña Anna, the unfulfilled love of Johnny Depp in the comedy Don Juan DeMarco. Born in Marseille she is married to actor Christopher Thompson. She has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Géraldine Pailhas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Magnificent Life
2025
as (voice)
In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a wee...

Baise-en-ville
2025
as Sprite's mother
Sprite, a 20-year-old young adult, returns to Chelles after a breakup. To pay for his driver’s license and please his parents, he joins Allo Nettoyo, ...

Les Malvenus
2024
as Carole
After the trial concerning the inheritance of the family farm, which pits him against his brother, Luc finally fulfills his desire to leave Paris and ...

À jamais les premiers
2023
as Self
The story of the 1992-1993 season, when the Olympique de Marseille became the first french soccer team to win a European Cup.

The Butcher's Daughter
2022
as Charly Fleury
Charly is the editor in chief of a fashion magazine. When her father dies, she inherits the family business: a butchery. Not exactly her passion in li...

Everything Went Fine
2021
as Pascale Bernheim
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him en...

La part du soupçon
2019
as Sophie Lancelle
Alice experiences the ordinary happiness of a mother when everything changes: the man of her life, Thomas, the father of her child, is suspected of be...

The Sower
2017
as Marianne
In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by ...

The New Life of Paul Sneijder
2016
as Anna Sneijder

Mobile Étoile
2016
as Hannah Hermann

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016
as Lucette Destouches
1948 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is accompanied by ...

Rouge
2015
as Célia Bhy
A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is ...

Portrait of the Artist
2015
as L'autre Célia Bhy
A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to t...

Disappeared in Winter
2015
as Christine
Daniel is a former police officer turned debt collector. Now in his late fifties, he goes about his "dirty job" without emotion or sympathy. One winte...

SMS
2014
as Stéphane
At 9:00, Laurent receives a worrying text message. 9:01, his mobile's stolen. 9:30, his son disappears. 10:00, his house burns down. 10:15, his wife l...

Divin enfant
2014
as Pauline
A large house surrounded by vineyards. A Christmas Eve in a very blended family turns into an absolute nightmare when the mistress of the house tells ...

La rupture
2013
as Marie-France Garaud
Upon the sudden death of President Georges Pompidou, the French right is taken aback. Who will succeed him? It is finally Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, ag...

Young & Beautiful
2013
as Sylvie
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute f...

The Fall of the Male Empire
2013
as Camille
After a visit to the Natural History Museum in Paris, Simon Esich is convinced that a prehistoric man has escaped from the Evolution Gallery and is me...

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...

Vanished
2012
as Betty Gaillon
A mother of two mysteriously disappears one morning. Her husband isn't worried as they've had rough patches; his wife just wanted to give him a scare ...

Le Paradis des bêtes
2012
as Cathy Lenikart
Dominique, a formidable and possessive husband and father, manages a large pet store, the Paradis des Bêtes, with his sister. One day he goes too far ...

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Une nouvelle vie
2011
as Nathalie Vaillant

His Mother's Eyes
2011
as Maria Canalès
A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, ...

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...
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
2010
as Rebecca Herry / Géraldine Pailhas
Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Slick biopic.

Bus Palladium
2010
as Prune Angelli
A comedy that follows the break-up of a French rock group.

Spy(ies)
2009
as Claire
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terr...

Château en Suède
2008
as Éléonore
In a castle, isolated in the heart of winter, lives a strange family: Hugo, in his forties; Eléonore, his wife; Aunt Agathe, Hugo's sister, an old mai...

Hikers in Saint-Tropez
2008
as Nadine
Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer together on t...

Didine
2008
as Alexandrine Langlois, dite Didine
Alexandrine, 35, who everyone nicknames Didine, peacefully goes with the flow, the opposite of her best friend Muriel. In this way, she one day crosse...

The Price to Pay
2007
as Caroline
Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunc...

Family Hero
2006
as Marianne Bensalem
A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his...

Made in Paris
2006
as Diane
Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann’s loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair he once...

Sur la terre comme au ciel : Making of Les Chevaliers du Ciel
2006
as Self

Sky Fighters
2005
as Maelle Coste
Two air force pilots prevent a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.

The Returned
2004
as Rachel
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate ...

Five Times Two
2004
as Valérie
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing ...
Les parallèles
2004
as Louise
Paris, today. A corrupt businessman, Duchey, returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the t...

Une vie à t'attendre
2004
as Claire
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair w...

The Cost of Living
2003
as Helena
Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodig...

The Adversary
2002
as Christine Faure
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist J...

L'Héritière
2002
as Juliette Destrac
After the death of her father, whom she never knew, a young woman finds herself at the head of a large company.

The Officers' Ward
2001
as Clémence
The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâc...

Enchanted Interlude
2000
as Marie
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...

Peut-être
1999
as Lucie
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ce...

Hikers
1997
as Nadine
A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.

The Son Of...
1995
as Sophie
A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pa...

Tom est tout seul
1995
as Hélène
After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets ...

Suite 16
1994
as Helen
After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and t...

Don Juan DeMarco
1994
as Dona Ana
John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric trea...

La folie douce
1994
as Louise
Edouard gives pieces of advice on a radio station, but when he tries to use them in real life with his friends, his skills are dubious.

Un homme à la mer
1993
as Lena
Pierre has disappeared. His ex-wife Fanny, their daughter and Maria, "the other", go looking for him. There and at the Grand Hotel de Cabourg with a v...
Comment font les gens
1993
as Léa
Serge and Yvette are on the verge of separating. Hervé and Irene are already separated. Serge will meet Irene and Yvette will meet Hervé. Chance will ...

IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
1992
as Gloria
Young graffiti artist Tony and his friend Jockey jump-start an unexpected adventure on the streets of Grenoble, France, when they steal a car that's a...

Les arcandiers
1991
as Véronique / Bernadette Soubirous
In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands on, but he remains a poor criminal in both senses ...

Snow and Fire
1991
as Christiane Mercier
While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a signi...

Three Seats for the 26th
1988
as Dancer
Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the barmaid...