Stéphanie Michelini
Stéphanie Michelini is a French actress. Career. She debuted in 2004, playing the leading role in the film "Wild Side", directed by Sébastien Lifshitz. For this role, she won the for Best Actress. She is the one of the few trans women to have obtained some roles in French television and cinema, which still entrusts the majority of transgender roles to cisgender actors. Michelini had auditioned for the title role of the series "", however, Claire Nebout was cast in the part. She took part in a video installation of the artist SMITH, titled "CHO (Agnès)", as well as  in SMITH's medium-length film "Spectrographies", which she filmed with Mathieu Amalric at Père-Lachaise. She was a member of the jury for the Chéries-Chéris film festival in 2012. In 2019, she starred with actress Myriam Boyer in the short film "Traverser la nuit", directed by Johann G. Louis. She won an Honorable Mention award for the role at the Two Riversides Film and Art Festival in Poland in 2020.