Emmanuelle Seigner

Emmanuelle Seigner

1966-06-22 Paris, France 45 Credits

Biography

Emmanuelle Seigner (born 22 June 1966) is a French actress and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Venus in Fur (2013), and for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Place Vendôme (1998) and La Vie En Rose (2007). She has been married to Polish film director Roman Polanski since 1989. Seigner is the daughter of Jean-Louis Seigner (1941-202...

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Bungalow 21

Bungalow 21

2024

as Marilyn Monroe

7.0
Acting
Pet Shop Days

Pet Shop Days

2023

as Diana

1.0
Acting

In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in...

An Officer and a Spy

An Officer and a Spy

2019

as Pauline Monnier

7.1
Acting

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

At Eternity's Gate

At Eternity's Gate

2018

as Madame Ginoux

7.0
Acting

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

Based on a True Story

Based on a True Story

2017

as Delphine

5.7
Acting

Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place,...

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

2017

as Self

7.3
Acting

A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.

Stalin's Couch

Stalin's Couch

2016

as Lidia

4.0
Acting

Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.

Heal the Living

Heal the Living

2016

as Marianne

6.4
Acting

The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.

The Siege of Jadotville

The Siege of Jadotville

2016

as Madame LaFontagne

7.1
Acting

Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.

Venus in Fur

Venus in Fur

2013

as Vanda

7.2
Acting

An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.

The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs

2012

as Josiane

6.1
Acting

During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has becom...

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

2012

as Self (archive footage)

6.5
Acting

An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work.

In the House

In the House

2012

as Esther

7.2
Acting

A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French te...

A Few Hours of Spring

A Few Hours of Spring

2012

as Clémence

6.6
Acting

Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship...

Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out

Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out

2012

as Self (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

A follow-up to the 2008 documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired", focusing on the filmmaker's successful battle to avoid extradition in to the...

Essential Killing

Essential Killing

2010

as Margaret

5.8
Acting

A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

Giallo

Giallo

2010

as Linda

4.2
Acting

In Italy, a woman fears her sister has been kidnapped; Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known...

Chicas

Chicas

2010

as Nuria

1.0
Acting

Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organ...

Change of Plans

Change of Plans

2009

as Sarah Mattei

5.4
Acting

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

Lou Reed's Berlin

Lou Reed's Berlin

2007

as Caroline

6.8
Acting

Lou Reed recorded the album Berlin in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years, he never performed the album live. For five nights in...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007

as Céline Desmoulins

7.6
Acting

The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his...

La Vie en Rose

La Vie en Rose

2007

as Titine

7.4
Acting

From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a c...

Four Last Songs

Four Last Songs

2007

as Helena

5.4
Acting

A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.

Backstage

Backstage

2005

as Lauren Waks

5.3
Acting

An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intert...

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

2004

as Hedda Gabler

Acting
Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After

2004

as Nathalie

5.9
Acting

Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

The Immortals

The Immortals

2003

as Madeleine Durand

7.1
Acting

Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and rememb...

Body to Body

Body to Body

2003

as Laura

5.5
Acting

Laura Bartelli is a stripper in a French bar. She retires after a moody landscape architect named Marco Tisserand asks her to abandon her life and sha...

Streghe verso nord

Streghe verso nord

2001

as Lucilla

5.1
Acting

Gallio and Teo are two witch defusers. Their task is to track them down and fight them by any means. The second is secretly in love with his sister-in...

Hotel Laguna

Hotel Laguna

2001

as Thelma Pianon

5.1
Acting

Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, w...

Buddy Boy

Buddy Boy

2000

as Gloria

4.8
Acting

An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.

Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre

Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre

2000

Acting

A French adaptation of Tankred Dorst's play "Fernando Krapp hat mir diesen Brief geschrieben", staged by Bernard Murat.

The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate

1999

as The Girl

6.5
Acting

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates ...

Place Vendôme

Place Vendôme

1998

as Nathalie

6.3
Acting

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love i...

RPM

RPM

1998

as Michelle Claire

2.8
Acting

A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.

The Gods Must Be Daring

The Gods Must Be Daring

1997

as Bobbi

4.3
Acting

A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of the...

Nirvana

Nirvana

1997

as Lisa

6.5
Acting

Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the ...

Let's Hope It Lasts

Let's Hope It Lasts

1996

as Julie Neyrac

2.0
Acting

Joseph and Victor are two motorcyclists of the national police force and inseparable friends. If the first leads a tidy life with wife and child, the ...

Le Sourire

Le Sourire

1994

as Odile

4.8
Acting

An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes det...

Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon

1992

as Mimi

7.1
Acting

A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

The King of Ads

The King of Ads

1991

as Self (segment "Vanity Fair commercial")

4.3
Acting

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-...

Dark Illness

Dark Illness

1990

as The Girl

5.4
Acting

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.

Frantic

Frantic

1988

as Michelle

6.7
Acting

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicat...

Private Tuition

Private Tuition

1986

as Zanon

5.5
Acting

Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing...

Detective

Detective

1985

as Princess of the Bahamas

5.3
Acting

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both t...