Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, also spelled Bruni-Tedeschi (born 16 November 1964), is an Italian-French[1] actress. Like her younger sister, model-turned-singer Carla Bruni, she has settled in France, though being raised bilingual by her Italian parents. She regularly acts also in Italy. She has dual French and Italian citizenship. Her Brother-in-Law is the current President of France.
[edit] Biography
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, Piedmont.
Although she began acting in 1986, only recently has she been chosen to play in top roles of internationally acclaimed movies. These include Ten Minutes Older (2002); If I Were a Rich Man (2002); Bernardo Bertolucci's "Histoire d'eaux" segment in the movie The Cello; and 5x2 (2004) and Le Temps qui reste (2005) by François Ozon, in which she played the main female role. She stars in the 2006 A Good Year directed by Ridley Scott.
Bruni Tedeschi was present at the 2005 Berlinale film festival to promote two films: Tickets (2005), a three-segment movie by Ermanno Olmi (in whose segment she played the female lead), Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach; and Crustacés et coquillages, a comedy by the witty French duo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.
Her debut film as a director, Il est plus facile pour un chameau..., won awards at the Tribeca and Ankara Women's film festivals. It is an autobiographical account of Bruni's upbringing.
