Cécile de France (Par amour): A princess is her namesake but is the actress linked to the aristocracy? She answers

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In For Loveher new film, released in cinemas this January 15, Cécile de France portrays the traits of a mother ready to do anything for her children. A necessarily complicated role for the 49-year-old actress, in a relationship for many years with Guillaume Siron and mother of two children. A striking new role in the eclectic and very rich filmography of the Belgian actress, originally from Namur and who has filmed with the greatest, from Cédric Klapisch to Clint Eastwood via the Dardenne brothers.

If she refuses to reveal the first names of her children, Cécile de France has already spoken out on the subject in the past, and in particular the possibility or not of seeing them follow in her footsteps by becoming actors in their turn. “No idea. But if they want it, I will not discourage them. When they were younger, I always managed to take them on set. It’s too painful to leave them. We don’t have children so we don’t see them”she explained in an interview with the magazine Elle.

Cécile de France has no connection with the aristocracy

Rather discreet about her private life, the actress, who refused to play Brad Pitt’s wife in a successful film, is also intriguing because of her unique name, which could make one think that she comes from a family of European aristocracy. Indeed, the actress shares the same name as Princess Cécile of France, Countess of Tripoli, is a daughter of Philip I, King of France, born in 1097 and died in 1145. In an interview granted to Madame Figaro last December, the main interested party wanted to put an end to the rumors. “I don’t know where my name comes from. I haven’t analyzed my family tree, but I can tell you that I have nothing to do with the Belgian aristocracy”she explains.

Cécile de France comes from a middle-class family and her parents were unusual, nudists and anarchists, as she has already explained in an interview. “My parents ran a café, lived in a housing project, and experienced long periods of unemployment. They were young, a little anarchic and very open. They immediately saw that theater made me vibrate, made me happy. They believed in me, and I was able to take a lot of amateur theater classes throughout my adolescence”she remembers.