Ophélie Winter

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Ophélie Winter

Ophélie Winter at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival
Background information
Birth name Ophélie Kleerekoper-Winter
Born (1974-02-20) 20 February 1974
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Occupations Singer, actress

Ophélie Kleerekoper-Winter (born 20 February 1974) is a French singer and actress.

Early life

Winter was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine. Her father David Alexandre Winter was a Dutch pop singer who had some success during the 1970s, while her mother Catherine Fefeu was a French fashion model,[1] who is now her agent. Her brother Michael is a singer and TV-presenter.

Her parents divorced when she was just 2 years old, and she moved to Paris with her mother and brother while her father left for the United States.[1] In 1984, at the age of 10 years old, she recorded her first song in France, La Chanson des Klaxons, and 3 years later another song, Poil de Carotte, in French.[1] At the age of 17, she was discovered by a modeling agent on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, and after three years of modeling, she decided to become a singer and an actress.

Career

Ophélie Winter has released four albums: No Soucy!, which her brother collaborated on, Privacy, Explicit Lyrics and Résurrection. The singer Prince wrote her a song.

She currently resides in Paris making various TV appearances. Her look-alike puppet is in the French show "Les Guignols de l'info" (1988).

Discography

  • No Soucy ! (1996)
    • Released singles: "Le feu qui m'attise" ("The Air That I Breathe"); "Dieu m'a donné la foi" ("Living In Me"); "Shame on U"; "Rien que pour lui"; "Keep It on the Red Light" (feat. Coolio)
  • Privacy (1998)
    • Released singles: "Je marche à l'envers" ("I Spy"); "Elle pleure" ("Cry"); "Je cours" ("Up Where I Belong"); "Ce que je suis" ("What a Girl Wants")
  • Explicit Lyrics (2002)
    • Released singles: "Sache"; "Tout le monde le fait"; "Yeah yeah yeah"
  • Résurrection (2009)
    • Released singles : "Affection"; "BB t'es mon sunshine (Sunshine Remix)"

Filmography

  • Hommes, Femmes, Mode D'Emploi (Men, Women: A User's Manual) (1996)
  • Tout Doit Disparaitre (Everything Must Go) (1997)
  • Bouge! (Move!) (1997)
  • Folle D'Elle (Crazy About Her) (1999)
  • 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
  • She (2001)
  • Les Jolies Choses (2001)
  • Ma Femme Est Une Actrice (2001)
  • Mauvais Esprit (Mean Spirit) (2003)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Biography of Ophélie Winter". Purepeople. Retrieved 23 February 2013. 

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