# Fanny Bastien

Fanny Bastien (née Meunier; born 13 December 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is a French actress.

## Biography

At the age of 15, Bastien left home to study at a regional dance conservatory and, the following year, joined the Académie Fratellini. She later took acting classes by Véra Gregh, John Strasberg and Jack Waltzer. She began her acting career in 1980 under her birth name Fanny Meunier with a small role in Tendres Cousines, a soft-core eotic film by David Hamilton. Shen then portrayed a young pregnant high school student in the comedy Le bahut va craquer (1981) alongside Michel Galabru, Claude Jade, Darry Cowl and Dany Carrel. She later adopted the stage name Fanny Bastien and secured the lead role as the title character in the three-part television film Dorothée, danseuse de corde (1983), adapted from the novel of the same name by Maurice Leblanc about a young tightrope walker in a traveling circus.
Bastien acted regularly through the 1980s, often playing leading roles, navigating between auteur films and mainstream works alongside, among others, Gérard Jugnot, Richard Berry and Bernard Giraudeau, in the films Pinot simple flic, Urgence and Poussière d'ange. Her screen appearances declined in the mid-1990s. However, she continues to act occasionally, including a secondary recurring role in the Canal+ series Braquo in 2009–2011 and in two episodes of the France 2 series Astrid et Raphaëlle in 2020.
Bastien presides over the Festival du Film Insolite in Rennes-le-Château, which she co-founded with Geoffroy Thiebaut in 2015.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1980 | Tendres Cousines | Angèle | Credited as Fanny Meunier |
| 1980 | Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel ? | Suzanne, la secrétaire Hiagault | Credited as Fanny Meunier |
| 1981 | Le bahut va craquer | Béa | Credited as Fanny Meunier |
| 1982 | Le Corbillard de Jules | Thérèse | |
| 1983 | Un chien dans un jeu de quilles | Anna | |
| 1984 | Mesrine | | Uncredited |
| 1984 | Pinot simple flic | Josyane Krawczyk | |
| 1984 | La Tête dans le sac | Eva | |
| 1985 | Urgence | Lysa Forstier | |
| 1985 | La Tentation d'Isabelle | Lio | |
| 1985 | L'Araignée de satin | Rose | |
| 1986 | Gauguin, le loup dans le soleil | Juliette Huet | |
| 1987 | Poussière d'ange | Violetta | |
| 1988 | Stradivari | Caterina | |
| 1988 | Prisonnières | Brigitte | |
| 1990 | Rio Negro | Marie | |
| 1990 | Le Radeau de La Méduse | | Deleted scenes (uncredited) |
| 1991 | Les Enfants des néons | | |
| 1993 | The Last Border | Doaiva | |
| 1999 | Terre promise | Mother | Short film |
| 2000 | Le marquis | | Short film |
| 2001 | Sang blanc | | Short film |
| 2002 | Retour en ville | | Short film |
| 2005 | Paris-Dakar | Prostitute | Short film |
| 2006 | C'est beau une ville la nuit | | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1981 | Non-Lieu | Violette Desmartine | TV movie Credited as Fanny Meunier |
| 1981 | Mon meilleur Noël | Marie | |
| 1982 | Les Contes modernes: Au sujet de l'enfance | Dancing girl | TV movie |
| 1982 | Range tes ailes mon ange | | TV movie |
| 1983 | Le Cimetière des voitures | Kittin | TV movie |
| 1983 | Dorothée, danseuse de corde | Dorothée | Miniseries |
| 1984 | Cinéma 16 | Delphine | Episode: "La fête" |
| 1986 | Série noire | Fabienne | Episode: "Piège à flics" |
| 1990 | Les Lendemains qui tuent | Marianne | TV movie |
| 1992 | Il segno del comando | Emma | TV movie |
| 1995 | Docteur Semmelweis | Katia | TV movie |
| 1996 | Mafia rouge | Patricia Cheremetiev | TV movie |
| 1997 | Les Rapapommes | Voice | TV movie |
| 2002 | Carnets d'ado | Mme Costas | Episode: "Les P'tits Lucas" |
| 2008 | Le Silence de l'épervier | Séverine | Miniseries |
| 2009–2011 | Braquo | Catherine Morlighem | 4 episodes |
| 2020 | Astrid et Raphaëlle | Laure Gana | 2 episodes |
| 2021 | Le Voyageur | Sabrina, la femme du chenil | Episode: "La Maison sous le Vent" |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Film | Result | Ref. |
| 1985 | César Award for Most Promising Actress | Pinot simple flic | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Prix Romy Schneider | — | Won | |