# Cécile Bois

Cécile Bois is a French actress.

## Early life and education

Cécile Bois grew up in Lormont, Gironde, France.
While at school, Bois joined an amateur theatre troupe. The following year, she entered the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, which she subsequently left to join another theatre group named "Le théâtre en vrac".
At age 19, Bois moved to Paris and began training at l'École de la rue Blanche. At this time, she met her future agent Chafika.

## Career

Bois has worked as a stage actor, on films such as Germinal, and on television programmes such as Navarro.
She auditioned for the role of Angélique in Robert Hossein's 1995 play, based on the novels by Anne Golon, and subsequently performed 130 times at the Palais des Sports.
Bois starred in films such as Dakan, Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments, Lucky Punch, le montreur de boxe, and Le roi danse, but she has played greater roles on television.
She starred as the female lead in Agathe contre Agathe in 2007; in 2010, she acted alongside Bruno Wolkowitch and Florence Pernel in the television film Le Désamour, which was directed by Daniel Janneau for France 3.
From 2013, she played the title role in the France 2 series Candice Renoir.
Bois played the lead role in the television drama series Gloria, a French remake of the 2017 British series Keeping Faith, released on 17 February 2022.

## Personal life

As of 2016, Bois had been in a relationship with fellow actor Jean-Pierre Michaël, with whom she has two daughters.

## Filmography
### Cinéma

* 1992: Promenades d'été
* 1993: Germinal
* 1993: La Place d'un autre
* 1995: Lucky Punch, le montreur de boxe
* 1996: Dakan
* 1998: Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments
* 2000: Le roi danse
* 2000: Le Roman de Lulu
* 2001: La Grande Vie !
* 2004: Les Mots bleus
* 2005: Une belle histoire
* 2009: Trésor
* 2023 : Like a Prince

### Television

* 1993: Le Chasseur de la nuit
* 1995: Navarro
* 1995: Fils de flic
* 1996: Les Alsaciens ou les Deux Mathilde
* 1997: Une soupe aux herbes sauvages
* 1997: La Maison d'Alexina
* 1998: La Femme de l'Italien
* 1998: Les monos (1 episode)
* 2000: Maigret as Miss Vague (1 episode)
* 2001: Résurrection
* 2001: Mathieu Corot as Diane (1 episode)
* 2002: Femmes de loi as Vanessa (1 episode)
* 2003: Une place parmi les vivants as Sabine
* 2003: Je serai toujours près de toi as Guilaine
* 2003: Joséphine, ange gardien as Sandrine (2 episode)
* 2004: Ariane Ferry as Ariane Ferry
* 2005: Sauveur Giordano as Caroline Lucas (1 episode)
* 2005: Une famille formidable as Marie-Sophie (1 episode)
* 2006: Agathe contre Agathe as Agathe Verdier
* 2006: Tombé du ciel as Florence
* 2006: Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse as Maître Chantal Jacquemin
* 2007: Adresse inconnue as Isabelle Chanbrier(1 episode)
* 2007: La vie à une as Elisa Moncea
* 2007: Camping Paradis as Julie (1 episode)
* 2007: Cellule Identité as Frédéric
* 2009: Vive les Vacances ! as Cécile (6 episodes)
* 2009: Aveugle, mais pas trop as Ninon
* 2009: Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme as Stéphanie Moreau (1 episode)
* 2010: Le Désamour as Charlotte
* 2010: Accusé Mendès France as Epouse lepretr
* 2011: Merci Patron as Nikki
* 2013-present: Candice Renoir as Candice Renoir
* 2014: Richelieu, la Pourpre et le Sang as Anne d'Autriche
* 2015: Envers et contre tous as Audrey
* 2017: Meurtres à Sarlat as Claire Dalmas (1 episode)
* 2022: Gloria
* 2023: Drops of God

## Stage

* 1990: Zapping, solitude, parloir
* 1991: Volpon
* 1995: Angélique, marquise des anges
* 2001: La Souricière d'Agatha Christie
* 2008: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon