CIVIL STATUS
Careers Actress, Director, Dialogue Writer plus
Nationality Frenchwoman
Born 1 February 1983 (Paris – France)
BIOGRAPHY
Daughter of Josiane Balasko and niece of Richard Berry.
Marilou Berry has cinema in her blood. It’s no wonder that she took her first steps on screen at the age of 8 in My Life Is Hell, a comedy directed by her mother, and starring her uncle – her father being the sculptor Philippe Berry. Not very interested in studies, she left high school in her second year, enrolled at the Conservatory of the 7th arrondissement and did a series of internships on film sets.
Marilou Berry established herself as one of the revelations of 2004 thanks to two roles of curvy and self-conscious teenagers, who find their salvation in music: Hannah, a feminist before her time and virtuoso of the double bass, in The First Time I Was 20 Years Old, and Lolita, a young girl passionate about opera and crushed by the notoriety of her publisher father, in Comme une image by Agnès Jaoui.
The latter role earned her a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2005. In addition to film, she devoted herself to theatre and played in Les Monologues du vagin in 2004 and then in Laurent Baffie’s play, Toc toc, which earned her the Molière Award for Best Theatrical Revelation in 2006.
Seeming to follow in her mother’s footsteps, she quickly turned to acting: after Once Upon a Time in the Oued (2005), she experimented with pretty summer camps in the company of Jean-Paul Rouve (Nos Jours heureux, 2006) and then played the all-too-nice Mélanie, who decides to take revenge on those who humiliated her in Vilaine in 2008. His performance earned him his 2nd César nomination.
That same year, she played the rebellious girls in front of her mother’s camera (Cliente). In 2011, she continued her comic journey with La Croisière alongside passengers such as Line Renaud, Antoine Duléry and Charlotte De Turckheim. Also in 2011, she reunited with her mother Josiane Balasko in the comedy Beur sur la ville.
Two years later, Marilou Berry appeared in Queens of the Ring alongside Nathalie Baye, Audrey Fleurot and André Dussollier. She also slips into the skin of the famous comic book character, created by Pénélope Bagieu, Joséphine. The actress then goes behind the camera (while keeping her character in front) for the sequel of the feature film entitled Joséphine s’rondit. At the same time, Josiane Balasko’s daughter tried her hand at dubbing with the voice of the character Tristesse in Vice Versa.
