# Laure Calamy

Laure Calamy (born in 1975) is a César Award-winning French film, TV and theatre actress best known for her roles in Call My Agent! and My Donkey, My Lover & I.

## Early life

Born in 1975, Calamy is the daughter of a psychologist and a doctor. She first tried her hand at theatre during her youth.
In 2000, after completing the baccalaureate, Calamy moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire de Paris, from which she graduated in 2001. At the Conservatoire, she met Olivier Py, who directed her in Au monde comme pas y être, Orlando ou l'impatience and Les Parisiens.

## Career

Critics lauded Calamy's performances in the short films Ce qu'il restera de nous, directed by Vincent Macaigne, and Un monde sans femmes, directed by Guillaume Brac, for which she received the Jeanine Bazin prize at the Festival Entrevues de Belfort.
Her performance in Cécile Ducrocq's short film Back Alley (La contre-allée), which was first screened during International Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival, earned her a Special Jury Prize for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival.
Calamy initially appeared in feature films in supporting roles. She became known to a wider audience for her portrayal of Noémie in the television series Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent).
In 2018, she was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Léa Mysius's Ava. The same year, she received the Molière Award for Best Actress in a Private Theatre Show for her performance in Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance (Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard), directed by Catherine Hiegel at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin.
On 19 December 2018 more than 70 celebrities, including Calamy, responded to a call to action by the organisation Urgence Homophobie to combat anti-LGBT bullying. She appears in the music video for the song "De l'amour".
She is a member of the 50/50 Collective, which aims to promote equality between women and men in the cinema and audiovisual sector.
In 2020, Calamy starred as Antoinette in Caroline Vignal's My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cevennes), an unexpected box-office success in France, and received positive reviews from critics. She won the César Award for Best Actress for her role in the film.
In 2021 Calamy won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actress at the 78th Venice International Film Festival for her starring role in Éric Gravel's Full Time.

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 2001 | Au monde comme n'y étant pas | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 2002 | Le Complexe de Thénardier | José Pliva | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 2004 | The Liar | Pierre Corneille | Jean-Louis Benoît | |
| 2004 | The Screens | Jean Genet | Jean-Baptiste Sastre | |
| 2004 | Kroum, l'ectoplasme | Hanoch Levin | Clément Poirée | |
| 2005 | The Italian Straw Hat | Eugène Marin Labiche | Olivier Balazuc | |
| 2007 | Bonjour - Où sont les mamans ? | Claude Ponti | Léna Bréban | |
| 2008 | The Suicide | Nikolai Erdman | Volodia Serre | |
| 2008 | In the Jungle of Cities | Bertolt Brecht | Clément Poirée | |
| 2008 | La Disparition de Richard Taylor | Arnaud Cathrine | Pauline Bureau | |
| 2011 | Au moins j'aurai laissé un beau cadavre | Vincent Macaigne | Vincent Macaigne | |
| 2011 | Modèles | Pauline Bureau & Laure Calamy | Pauline Bureau | |
| 2013 | Belgrade | Angélica Liddell | Julien Fisera | |
| 2014 | Man Equals Man | Bertolt Brecht | Clément Poirée | |
| 2014-15 | Orlando ou l'impatience | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 2015-16 | Les Inséparables | Colas Gutman | Léna Bréban | |
| 2017 | Les Parisiens | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 2018 | The Game of Love and Chance | Pierre de Marivaux | Catherine Hiegel | Molière Award for Best Actress |
| 2018 | Le Fusil de chasse | Yasushi Inoue | Laure Calamy | |

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 2005 | Le personnage | The prostitute | Frédérick Vin | Short |
| 2007 | Chat bleu, chat noir | The nice | Jean-Louis Lorenzi | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2008 | C'est votre histoire | The mother | Alain Guiraudie | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2009 | Park Benches | Opportune | Bruno Podalydès | |
| 2011 | Un monde sans femmes | Patricia | Guillaume Brac | Short |
| 2011 | Boulevard du Palais | The doctor | Jean-Marc Vervoort | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2012 | A Perfect Plan | Valérie | Pascal Chaumeil | |
| 2012 | La fleur de l'âge | Sarah Chevalier | Nick Quinn | |
| 2012 | Ce qu'il restera de nous | Laure | Vincent Macaigne | Short |
| 2013 | 9 Month Stretch | Daisy | Albert Dupontel | |
| 2013 | Passe | The prostitute | Julien Gaspar-Oliveri | Short |
| 2013 | L'albatros | The girlfriend | Emmanuel Bonnat | Short |
| 2013 | Toutes les belles choses | Jessica | Cécile Bicler | Short |
| 2014 | Zouzou | Lucie | Blandine Lenoir | |
| 2014 | French Women | Cathy Bento | Audrey Dana | |
| 2014 | Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey | Nadine Legall | Lucie Borleteau | |
| 2014 | Weekends in Normandy | Flo | Anne Villacèque | |
| 2014 | Petit lait | Suzanne | François Choquet | Short |
| 2014 | La contre-allée | Suzanne | Cécile Ducrocq | Short Sundance Film Festival - Short Film Special Jury Prize - Acting |
| 2015 | En équilibre | Séverine | Denis Dercourt | |
| 2015 | Les Cowboys | Isabelle | Thomas Bidegain | |
| 2015 | All About Them | The aggressive | Jérôme Bonnell | |
| 2015 | This Summer Feeling | Anouk | Mikhaël Hers | |
| 2015 | Vous m'éblouissez | The woman | Marie Madinier | Short |
| 2015 | L'Amérique de la femme | Lucie | Blandine Lenoir | Short |
| 2015–2020 | Call My Agent! | Noémie Leclerc | Marc Fitoussi, Cédric Klapisch, ... | TV series (24 episodes) Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actress (2017) |
| 2016 | Primaire | Christina Drouet | Hélène Angel | |
| 2016 | Staying Vertical | Doctor Mirande | Alain Guiraudie | |
| 2016 | In Bed with Victoria | Christelle | Justine Triet | |
| 2016 | Clitopraxis | Peggy | Emmanuel Laborie | Short |
| 2017 | Ava | Maud | Léa Mysius | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2017 | I Got Life! | Pôle Emploi employee | Blandine Lenoir | |
| 2017 | Embrasse-moi ! | Fantine | Océan Michel & Cyprien Vial | |
| 2017 | Pour le réconfort | Laure | Vincent Macaigne | |
| 2017 | Bonheur Académie | Lily Desmaret | Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita | |
| 2017 | Canine panique | Madame Borota | Baptiste Drapeau | Short |
| 2017 | Holly Weed | Céline Alban | Laurent de Vismes | TV series (8 episodes) |
| 2018 | Lady J | Lucienne | Emmanuel Mouret | |
| 2018 | Our Struggles | Claire | Guillaume Senez | |
| 2018 | Claire Darling | Martine Leroy | Julie Bertuccelli | |
| 2018 | Roulez jeunesse | Nelly | Julien Guetta | |
| 2019 | Sibyl | Édith | Justine Triet | |
| 2019 | Le dindon | Clothilde Pontagnac | Jalil Lespert | |
| 2019 | Only the Animals | Alice Farange | Dominik Moll | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2019 | Une belle équipe | Catherine Guerin | Mohamed Hamidi | |
| 2019 | Temps de chien | Judith | Edouard Deluc | TV movie |
| 2019 | Calls | Élodie | Timothée Hochet | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2020 | My Best Part | Sylvie | Nicolas Maury | |
| 2020 | My Donkey, My Lover & I | Antoinette Lapouge | Caroline Vignal | César Award for Best Actress |
| 2020 | La Flamme | Victoire | Jonathan Cohen & Jeremie Galan | TV series (5 episodes) |
| 2021 | Louloute | Isabelle | Hubert Viel | |
| 2021 | Her Way | Marie | | |
| 2021 | Full Time | Julie | Éric Gravel | Won - 2021 Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Best Actress Nominated – César Award for Best Actress |
| 2022 | Angry Annie (Annie colère) | Annie | Blandine Lenoir | |
| 2022 | The Origin of Evil | Stéphane | Sébastien Marnier | |
| 2024 | The Confidante | Christelle "Chris" Blandin, | Just Philippot | |
| 2024 | My Everything | Mona | Anne-Sophie Bailly | |