career, couple, child… what you need to know about the actress

She has a soft gaze. A washed-out gaze that has often led her to play nice girls, loving women or tender mothers. Enough to make herself loved by the French public. Since her film debut in the late 1980s, Sandrine Kiberlain has never left the big screen. Film after film, she has continued to prove her talent. Portrait of the actress with light eyes and golden hair.

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What is Sandrine Kiberlain’s real name?

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Sandrine Kiberlain is the granddaughter of Polish Jews who came to settle in France in the early 1930s. During World War II, his paternal grandfather changed his name from Kiberlajn to Kiberlain.. A name that therefore reflects his family history, so be careful of those who mispronounce it.

“I’m sick of people taking me for an Englishwoman because of my name. I’m sick of people taking me for Richard Chamberlain’s daughter. [acteur américain, ndlr]”It annoys me that people put “m”s everywhere in my name,” she said in an interview with “Paris Match”, on the occasion of the release of her film “Une jeune fille qui va bien” (2021), inspired by her family. “Originally, it was written Kiberlajn, but my grandfather Frenchified it during the war. We pronounced it Kiberlein, like Einstein.”

What did Sandrine Kiberlain study?

Daughter of the playwright writing under the pseudonym David Bacca, Sandrine Kiberlain naturally turned to theatre after her baccalaureate. In 1987, she was admitted to the free class of Cours Florentin Paris, then she joined the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1989. But she didn’t wait until the end of her studies to start performing on stage or in front of the camera.

She appeared in “On a volé Charlie Spencer” (1986), by Francis Huster; “Cyrano de Bergerac” (1990), by Jean-Paul Rappeneau; in “L’inconnu dans la maison” (1992), by Georges Lautner. But it was really thanks to her role in “Les patriotes” (1994), by Éric Rochant, that Sandrine Kiberlain got noticed. Since then, she has never left the big screen.

What awards has she received?

In 1995, Sandrine Kiberlain was nominated for the César for Best Female Newcomer for her role in “The Patriots” (1994), but it was not until the following year that she won the prestigious award for her performance in “To Have (or Not)” (1995).

After being nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1997 for “Un héros très discret”, she went on to receive a series of César nominations for Best Actress, first in 1998 for “Le septième ciel”, then in 1999 for “À vendre”, in 2010 for “Mademoiselle Chambon”, in 2015 for “Elle l’adore”, as well as in 2019 for “Pupille”. She has only won it once, in 2014, for her role in “9 months in prison”. In the theatre too, Sandrine Kiberlain’s talent has been praised: in 1997, she received the Molière of theatrical revelation for his performance in “The Novel of Lulu”.

Does Sandrine Kiberlain write the lyrics to her songs?

Sandrine Kiberlain is not only an actress and director, she is also a singer. After trying her hand at singing on the soundtrack of the film “Love me” (2000), by Laetitia Masson, She released her first album in 2005“That was all that was missing”. She repeated the experience in 2007 with the album “Coupés bien net et bien carré”, carried by the single “La chanteuse”. Album for which she wrote all the lyrics, which she defended on tour: “As I go to the end of the adventure that I am beginning, there was the stage. […] I visited 50 cities, the European, the Cigale, with fear in my stomach, stage fright in the wings “, she told France Culture in 2022. “I was used to hiding behind the characters of filmmakers, and there, suddenly, there was an exposure that didn’t suit me. The bravos and the reception from people, it was both very gratifying and fantastic, but there was an exhibitionist side that I would find very violent. I would like to do it again because I would enjoy it better today.”

Who was Sandrine Kiberlain in a relationship with?

At Cours Florent, Sandrine Kiberlain met Yvan Attalwith whom she was in a relationship for a while. Together, they passed the entrance exam to the Conservatoire. “Yvan was not accepted into the Conservatoire, but he quickly made it in the cinema, he was one of my first fiancésI was next to him when he got the Cesar [du meilleur espoir masculin, en 1990, pour « Un monde sans pitié », ndlr]”I even fell out of my chair,” she told Society magazine in 2022. Yvan Attal then met Charlotte Gainsbourg, with whom he is still.

Sandrine Kiberlain, she, was in a relationship with Vincent Lindon. They met on the set of “The Unresolved” (1994), by Jean-Pierre Ronssin. “It’s funny, for all the men who mattered, I fell in love at first sight. Like I was struck by lightning. And sometimes it didn’t suit me… The first time I saw Vincent, he came in with his hair all messy, smoking a cigarette and I thought: “Oh shit!” ” she told Vanity Fair in 2020.

Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon were married in 1998. A surprise wedding : « Yes, I was married without my knowledge. The pretext was that he was taking me to celebrate my birthday, blindfolded, and I found myself at the town hall with people who didn’t know what the hell they were doing there. It was crazy, like a kidnapping,” she told “Society” in 2022.

“Laetitia Masson stood up and said: “You can’t do that to a woman!” I wasn’t into that at all. I didn’t necessarily understand the violence of the thing at the time, we think it’s chivalrous. I didn’t even think of saying no? There are people who never experience crazy things, well this one shows that my life has never been boring. » Together, Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon had a daughter, Suzannewho was only three years old when they separated in 2003. A separation that did not affect their relationship.

“Vincent is family. When we parted, I knew we wouldn’t lose each other. But I didn’t know what to do. We had just spent ten years together, we had a little girl, I was barely thirty, I wasn’t on my tenth separation, so the grief… It was very hard. It took me a while to accept the idea that my daughter would live with divorced parents, me who had never experienced that. But we invent, and we build,” she confided to “Psychologies” in 2022.

“Today, we support each other from a distance, and we are close enough in life to be partners on screen. It’s very, very weird, but we manage to play it. Ultimately, I’m not that far from the family model: we love each other for life, even if we love each other differently. We did this thing. Not without difficulty, but we did it. It’s precious, we know that. So we don’t dirty it…

As for her recent romantic relationships since her separation from Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain prefers to keep it a secret.