Biography
Isabelle Nanty (born 21 January 1962) is a French actress, film and theatre director and screenwriter. She was a teacher for several years at the Cours Florent, and then received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Tatie Danielle (1990), and two nominations for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Amélie (2001) and Not on the Lips (2003). She's also known for her roles in La Belle Histoire (1992) directed by Claude Lelouch, Les Visiteur...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Cher Père Noël
2025
Zoé, an 8-year-old girl, wants to get a BB gun from Santa Claus to get revenge on Timothée, a classmate who annoys her by playing with his Lego robot....

Sweet Jesus
2025
Sister Lucie, a dedicated nun, decides to flee her convent after 20 years to find her love of youth. It is for her the beginning of an extraordinary a...

The Boy
2025
Actress-director Zabou Breitman embarks on an unusual adventure: imagining the life of a boy discovered in an old photo from an album bought at a flea...

Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés
2025

God Save the Tuche
2025
as Cathy Tuche
When Jeff and Cathy’s grandson Jiji is selected for a training camp with Arsenal, it’s a dream opportunity for the whole family to head over to Englan...

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça - On va marcher sur la Lune
2024
as Christiane

Some Shooting Stars
2024
as Sylvie Colonna
These old friends now have to train the next football generation with the help of their own offsprings...

Start Me Up
2024
as Véronique
A grandfather decides to launch a childcare business alongside a bitter divorcee who is also an aging game show icon trying to make a comeback.

Coléoptère
2024
Grégoire Samsa is a solitary young man, a building caretaker, always ready to help everyone, in order to exist. Scorned, even by his adoptive mother, ...

Le bec fin
2024
as La directrice du Bec Fin
Le bec fin is a renowned institution where two types of customers go: some choose and others are chosen. Roland decided to be chosen. He has an appoin...

Je ne suis pas un héros
2023
as Françoise Ifergan
Louis is a super nice guy. But in his lawyer's office, this is not a compliment. When his doctor wrongly diagnoses a serious disease, his colleagues b...

Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard
2023
as Huguette Poutifard
The tasty story of a retired teacher who decides to make his former students pay for years of heckling and humiliation.

Les Enfoirés 2023 - Enfoirés un jour, toujours
2023
In January 2023, the Enfoirés performed at La Halle Tony Garnier in Lyon. True to the caused started by Coluche in 1985, forty-seven renowned artists ...

Dancing On
2022
as Danie
After thirty years of marriage, Sandra finds out that her husband is having an affair with his best friend. She immediately leaves him and has no choi...

Les Enfoirés 2022 - Un air d'Enfoirés
2022

Bigbug
2022
as Françoise
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots...

Adieu Paris
2022
as Isabelle
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, mast...

Christmas with the Tuches
2021
as Cathy Tuche / Maguy Marteau
After having resigned from his post as President of the Republic, Jeff and his family are happy to be back in their village of Bouzolles. As the end o...

Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous
2021
Les Enfoirés "À côté de toi" is the 31st album/show by Les Enfoirés, recorded from January 14 to 17, 20211 at Lyon's Halle Tony-Garnier. The show was...

The Grand Restaurant III
2021
as Cristian's friend
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” ...

Miss
2020
as Yolande
A young man seeking his sexual identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.

Summer of 85
2020
as Madame Robin
What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on a...

La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès
2020
as Narrator (voice)

Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés
2020

Fahim
2019
as Mathilde
Fahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.

La troupe à Palmade s'amuse avec Isabelle Nanty
2019
as Self

Les Enfoirés 2019 - Le Monde des Enfoirés
2019

L'Étrange Noël de Jeff Panacloc
2018
as Patronne TF1
Alongside his impertinent puppet, ventriloquist Jeff Panacloc celebrates Christmas with humour, surrounded by personalities from music, cinema and TV ...

The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin
2018
as Technical Support Operator
After freeing Baghdad from its terrible ruler, Aladin delays his marriage to the princess until a new dictator arrives to take over the city.

Dessine-moi un alien
2018
as Mère de Gaëtan
A young man replaces his mother for a day of drawing lessons at school. An alien then arrives and demands a drawing at gunpoint.

Dany de Boon des Hauts-de-France
2018
Director
Dany Boon says farewell to the stage after 25 years of comedy. For the last time, Dany Boon paints his absurd scenes, colorful characters, life strugg...

Gaston Lagaffe
2018
as Voix du hall (voice)
Gaston is a new guy at the Peticoin start-up. With his delusional inventions, he will change the lives of his colleagues. Cat, seagull, cow, and gaffo...

Les Tuche : un phénomène qui tuche tout le monde
2018
as Self
The phenomenon took everyone by surprise. In the span of three years, despite the mixed reception from the press upon its release in 2011, the Tuche f...

Mentalistes : dans la tête des stars
2018
as Self

The Magic Tuche
2018
as Cathy Tuche
After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the cou...

Mon Poussin
2017
as Cléa
Vincent, 18 years old, is dumped by Elina. It is his first love, it is the end of the world! His parents decide to take matters into their own hands a...

Je vous écoute
2016
Stage Director

On refait le boulevard
2016

Les deux canards
2016

West Coast
2016
as Mère de Copkiller et King-Kong
Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang...

The Tuche Family: The American Dream
2016
as Cathy Tuche
Les Tuche, a modest french family, change his life after winning a super lottery. Thanks to the money of his parents, the son, Donald (aka "coin-coin)...

SODA: le rêve américain
2015
as Marie-Amélie, Ludovic Drancourt's mother
Everything is going wrong for Adam: he just failed his baccalaureate, his friends Slimane and Ludovic are about to go their separate ways, his girlfri...

Serial Teachers 2
2015
as Gladys - Prof d'anglais
The worst teachers of France landed in England for an ultra-secret mission. With Boulard, the King of the Dunces, they are parachuted in the best scho...

The Secret of Arkandias
2014
as Bertha Boucher
Theo, not the most popular boy at his school, dreams of escaping the dreary everyday life, experiencing adventure and accomplishing great heroic deeds...

Couleur locale
2014
as Marianne
Marianne Riblon runs a small construction business in the south of France. Widowed and estranged from a daughter she hasn't seen in 15 years, she spen...

Le mystère des jonquilles
2014
as Willard
The director of a department store is murdered. He is discovered in a park, a bunch of daffodils on his chest.
Le Débarquement 2
2013
as Various Characters

The Pink Soldier 2
2013
as La Voix du Grand Magasin
Just as the Pink Soldier found happiness in spite of his strange color, fate decides to play another trick on him: make him blue...

Queens of the Ring
2013
as Sandrine Pédrono
More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old son who has been placed with a foster family and bla...

Serial Teachers
2013
as Gladys, prof d'anglais
With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the worst school in France. The Inspector of Schools has ...

Le Débarquement
2013
Inspired by the American program Saturday Night Live from NBC, around thirty actors take part in various humorous sketches.

Cinderella: Once Upon a Time in the West
2012
as La Grande Duchesse (voice)
Cinderella is transformed for a night at the royal ball, but finds herself battling a band of gorilla pirates who have kidnapped Prince Vladimir and t...

The Players
2012
as Stéphanie
Eight short films explore the subject of male infidelity. Serial cheaters, Fred and Greg, spend a night on the town doing what they do best, and with ...

The Tuche Family
2011
as Cathy Tuche
Everyone in the village of Bouzolles knows the Tuche family, who live by the philosophy "Man is not made to work." Despite their lack of money, they s...

Tresor
2009
as Brigitte
Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his girlfriend:...

Incognito
2009
as Alexandra
Lucas is an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.

King Guillaume
2009
as Paméla Gisèle
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to co...

Agathe Cléry
2008
as Joëlle
Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder ...

Disco
2008
as La baronne
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his so...

Julie Ferrier : Aujourd'hui c'est Ferrier !
2007
Director

Twice Upon a Time
2006
as Rageaud
Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the 70s. But this pair have...

Try Me
2006
as Jacqueline's mother
When Yves-Marie, 9, asks Jacqueline, who is her age: "Marry me", she replies with a pirouette: "The day you go to the stars, I give you my hand."

Try Me
2006
Writer
When Yves-Marie, 9, asks Jacqueline, who is her age: "Marry me", she replies with a pirouette: "The day you go to the stars, I give you my hand."

J'me sens pas belle
2004
as Charlotte, dite Chonchon
Fanny, a single woman in her mid-thirties, has had enough of relationships that don't work, so she decides to seduce Paul, a colleague from the office...

Casablanca Driver
2004
as Léa Driver
This mockumentary follows the world's worst boxer and the events that led to his meteoric rise in the year 1969.

Not on the Lips
2003
as Arlette Poumaillac
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were mo...

Toutes les filles sont folles
2003
as Vanille
Céleste, la trentaine, n'a toujours pas rencontré le grand amour. Un jour, sur un coup de tête, elle décide d'enlever l'homme qu'elle croit idéal, for...

Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine)
2003
as Dorine
Isabelle Nanty is a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the gi...

Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine)
2003
Director
Isabelle Nanty is a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the gi...

Shooting Stars
2002
as Sylvie Colonna
A young Hungarian dreams of playing for the French football team and will get the help of a couple of friends.

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
as Itinéris
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

À l'abri des regards indiscrets
2002
as La mère riche
January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting ...

Amélie
2001
as Georgette
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a...

Gad Elmaleh - La Vie normale
2001
Adaptation
La Vie normale est un spectacle de Gad Elmaleh sorti en 2001 où sont dépeints les caractères de plusieurs personnages et où il joue son propre rôle.

Taking Wing
2000
as Artistic counselor
This is the story of Stan, a young man who might be considered an ordinary, run of the mill guy. But his love and passion for the theatre propels him ...

La bostella
2000
as Mathilda
Taking its title from a popular 1960s dance craze, this digital video comedy concerns the exploits of a particularly odd fictional talk-show host, por...

L'origine de la tendresse
1999
as Elise
Elise is a quiet and solitary woman who works as a museum attendant. Nothing really happens in her life. And in a life in which nothing happens, no mo...

Ça reste entre nous
1998
as Martine
Martin Lamotte made his directorial debut with this French comedy. Building contractor Patrick is unaware that Helene, his wife for 15 years, intends ...

Serial Lover
1998
as Isabelle
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house...

Gad Elmaleh - Décalages
1997
Stage Director
"Décalages" is Gad Elmaleh's first show, where he humorously tells the story of his arrival in France and his cultural shocks. Blending stand-up and c...

Why Is Mother in My Bed?
1994
as Police Inspector
Following a bet with his friends, Antoine steals a jacket. The life of his parents will be turned upside down.

Lovers
1994
as Maryline
In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older and ostensibly free-wheeling half-sister, learnin...

La folie douce
1994
as Gloria
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.

The Visitors
1993
as Fabienne Morlot
After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with...

Sexes faibles !
1992
as Douce Mamirolle
The La Chesnays live in a castle threatened with destruction to accommodate a TGV line. While Gilles, the husband, agrees to receive compensation, his...

The Austrian
1990
as Reine Milliot
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinet...

Auntie Danielle
1990
as Sandrine Vonnier
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...

Les Deux Fragonard
1989
as Lisette
The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and ...

Preuve d'amour
1988
as Anne-Marie
A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer.

Vent de panique
1987
Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with chi...

Beatrice
1987
as Childminder
Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the...

On a volé Charlie Spencer !
1986
as La petite blonde
Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by for...

Un moment d'inattention
1986
as Claudine
Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured fide...

Red Kiss
1985
as Jeanine
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demo...

The Hawk
1983
as L'animatrice radio
Detective Frank Zodiac is a cop traumatized by the death of his wife in a car accident that also left his daughter in a coma. This tragedy prevented h...
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