Valérie Allain

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Valérie Allain

Valérie as Stéphanie on the film À nous les garçons
Born Valérie Allain
April 3, 1966 (1966-04-03) (age 42)
Flag of FranceSaint-Raphaël, Var, France

Valérie Allain (born April 3, 1966) is a French actress.

Among students of the French language, she is best known for her role as "Mireille" in the 1987 instructional television series French in Action, which acquired a cult following largely because of the appeal of its romantic comedic segments interspersed among grammar lessons.[1]

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[edit] Professional career

  • In many scenes in French in Action, "Mireille" appears braless, in the same way that "Stéphanie," her character from the 1985 French film À nous les garçons[2] does. This generated some controversy at the time and was condemned as "sexist" by feminists at Yale University.[3]
  • Allain was featured in the November 1988 edition of Playboy in "Stars of the Cinema in 1988."

[edit] Personal life

Allain was once engaged to French singer-songwriter Richard Sanderson, but broke off the engagement citing media intrusion; she has one son. She is currently working with a French art group called Les Frigos.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Cinema

  • Le cow-boy (1984)
  • À nous les garçons (1984)
  • Le véto (1985)
  • Club de rencontres (1986)
  • Aria, segment Armide (1987)
  • Les nouveaux tricheurs (1987)
  • Alouette, je te plumerai (1987)
  • Un parfum d'odyssée (1988)
  • La chambre d'ami (1988)
  • L'Avaro (1990)
  • Princesse Alexandra (1991)
  • La plage (1991)
  • De justesse (1992)
  • TOB (tête d'oeuf bouilli) (1994)
  • Le moine (1997)
  • Présomption d'innocence (1997)
  • L'inconnue de la nationale (1998)
  • Amorce (2000)

[edit] Television

  • Le chevalier de Pardaillan (1985)
  • French in Action (1987)
  • Un château au soleil (1988) (miniseries)
  • Duo (1990)
  • Un comédien dans un jeu de quilles (1990) (miniseries)
  • Un mort très convenable (1992) (miniseries)
  • Morasseix!!! (1993)
  • Une femme sur mesure (1997)
  • Cassidi et Cassidi: Le démon de midi (1997)

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://radioanyway.org/pastshows/show46.html Internet Radio program on Allain dated 11-19-05, entitled Cults
  2. ^ http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_nous_les_gar%C3%A7ons
  3. ^ "Campus Life: Yale; French Course, Termed Sexist, Will Be Revised", The New York Times, 1990-04-15. Retrieved on 2007-09-26. 

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