My Wife is an Actress (French: Ma femme est une actrice) is a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama film starring Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film. The film stars Terence Stamp among others. This film is also highly biographic, as Yvan and Charlotte are a real-life couple since 1991, and have three children. According to Yvan, the idea and a part of the plot originates from real-life events.[3]
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Directed by | Yvan Attal |
Written by | Yvan Attal |
Produced by | Claude Berri |
Starring | Yvan Attal Charlotte Gainsbourg Terence Stamp Noémie Lvovsky |
Cinematography | Rémy Chevrin |
Edited by | Jennifer Augé |
Music by | Brad Mehldau |
Production companies | Katharina Renn Productions TF1 Films Production |
Distributed by | Pathé |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | France |
Languages | French English |
Budget | $6.8 million[1] |
Box office | $5.2 million[2] |
The film was released on 14 November 2001 in France on 238 screens and opened at number one with a gross of 7 million Francs ($1 million) for the week.[4] It went on to gross $3.4 million in France.[5] It opened on 12 July 2002 in 7 theatres in the United States and grossed $49,204 in the opening weekend and went on to gross $1,121,233. It grossed $5,169,438 worldwide.[5]
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