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Louise Bourgoin was born on 28 November 1981 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. She is an actress and writer, known for The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010), I Am a Soldier (2015) and La fille de Monaco (2008).

Alain Resnais was born on 3 June 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Same Old Song (1997). He was married to Sabine Azéma and Florence Malraux. He died on 1 March 2014 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Hélène de Fougerolles was born on 25 February 1973 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. She is an actress and director, known for Who Knows? (2001), The Beach (2000) and Innocence (2004). She was previously married to Eric Hubert.

Born on 2 October 1991, in Brittany, France, and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States, Marion Campan obtained a business degree from the ENACOM school in Nantes in 2013.

Passionate about languages and animals, she was trilingual in French, English and Spanish and was a host family for rescue animals, including the dog she eventually adopted. She was able to satisfy her third passion, traveling, through professional experiences, internships and volunteer work in India, Panama, South Africa and the French island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean, where she moved to in 2017 to work for wholesaler JD Distribution. It was there, in parallel to her regular work, that she indulged in her fourth passion, acting, by taking on the role of coroner Joséphine Fleury in the locally shot cop show Pacific Criminal (2019) starting with season 2 in 2021.

Sadly, it would remain her only role, as she was found dead in mysterious circumstances in her home on 15 August 2022, hanged by the leash of her dog, with the doors of her house wide open, having come back from a nightclub the night before. With filming for season 4 of the show wrapping four days prior, she planning to head back to mainland France five days later on 20 August, with her plane ticket bought and paid for. The eve of her death, she had updated her Facebook profile with a picture from her TV series, captioning it, in English, "On set".

Before writing musicals, Schonberg was an artistic director at EMI; he was producing artists such as Gilbert Bécaud, Franck Pourcel, Ke Shang. In 1973, he composed the music for "La Revolution Francaise", and acted as "King Louis XVI" in the production. Franck Pourcel decided to produce in first LP in 1974: "Le Premier Pas" (one of the famous French songs of the century). Schonberg was married twice; first with Beatrice Schonberg, from which he has 2 children, and, the second time, he married an English ballerina, Charlotte Talbot: he has a baby girl. He lives in France with his family.

Paul Gury was born on 11 May 1888 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a writer and actor, known for A Man and His Sin (1949), Séraphin (1950) and L'escadrille de la chance (1938). He was married to Yvette Brind'amour. He died on 13 November 1974 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Joseph Jiquel-Lanoë spent several years in Tahiti where he doubtlessly met Gauguin during his first stay in the late 1890's. He spent the last years of his life from 1940 to his death in 1948 in Papeete. Except for three paintings, one of them ("Trois Tahitiennes près d'un étang en forêt") revealing a strong influence of Gauguin, all traces of his work are gone.

Yves Coppens was born on 9 August 1934 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a writer and assistant director, known for One Woman or Two (1985), Le peuple singe (1989) and Les derniers secrets de l'humanité (2024). He died on 22 June 2022 in Paris, France.

Damien Le Bagousse is a French director, scriptwriter, editor and photographer. Born on January 18, 1994 in Vannes, Brittany, he started crafting audiovisual experiments with friends at age 14, a moment of self-discovery and personal accomplishment that allowed him to progressively find his style and broaden his artistry. He then proceeded to move from his hometown to the city of Rennes, shortly after graduating from high school in 2013. At that time, he attended the University of Rennes 2, where he thoroughly studied the intricacies of theatre and cinema, while simultaneously encountering Paul Marques Duarte, with whom he partnered to co-direct a short film essay during an academic workshop. He was ultimately qualified with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Performing Arts in 2016.

Up to this point, he directed and wrote the screenplay treatments for a collection of pictorial endeavors, including self-produced Alter Ego (2015) and Et que le reste du monde disparaisse! (2017), both assisted by local junior studio company Black Sheep Production, as well as computer animation projects, music videos and promotional clips.

Colonel Rémy was born on 6 August 1904 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Line of Demarcation (1966), The Monocle (1964) and The Black Monocle (1961). He died on 29 July 1984 in Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, France.

Thierry Bourcy was born on 22 June 1955 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He is a writer and production manager, known for Vendanges Moldaves, La rose de Paracelse (1986) and Hôtel de police (1985).

André Maheux was born in 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Les cinq dernières minutes (1958), François Gaillard ou la vie des autres (1971) and Dem Täter auf der Spur (1967). He died on 15 June 1971 in Paris, France.

Jacques Mironneau was born on 30 June 1935 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. Jacques is known for The Visitors (1993), Casse-tête chinois pour le judoka (1967) and Operation Corned Beef (1991). Jacques died on 3 January 2025 in Plonéour-Lanvern, Finistère, France.

Jérémy Boutes is a French director and screenwriter best known for his film "À l'Horizon". He graduated from the 3IS Paris film school (International Institute of Image and Sound) in 2023.

In 2022-2023, his film "À l'Horizon" won numerous international awards and selections in the USA, Brazil, France, UK, Greece, India and Germany...