Véronique Genest
Birthday: Born in 1956-06-26 in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France
Deathday: Alive
Véronique Genest (born Véronique Combouilhaud, 26 June 1956) is a French actress and film producer. She is best known for her starring role as Commissaire Julie Lescaut in the French police drama series Julie Lescaut which ran from 1992 - 2013. Source: Article "Véronique Genest" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Fort Boyard
Character: Self
A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money....
Nana
Character: Nana
A prostitute named Nana Coupeau rises from the very bottom of the social ladder to become one of the most sought-after courtesans....
Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self - Guest
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La Parenthèse inattendue
Character: Self
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Nos chers voisins
Character: Madam Lanet
Large family or recomposed, teenagers tortured by their hormones, mothers overwhelmed family, students and party rascals, pretty sexy neighbor, retired always on the lookout for a gossip ... Life and relations - sometimes friendly, sometimes tense , but always funny of a band of neighbors who cross every day, like millions of French ... In front of the landing, in the elevator, while leaving the garbage cans or leaving to work ......
Meurtres à...
Character: Carole Castel
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region....
Julie Lescaut
Character: Julie Lescaut
Julie Lescaut is a French-language police television series. It has been distributed since 1992 on TF1, La Une-RTBF and TSR; the show remains active as of 2010. It details the investigations of detective Julie Lescaut and her team. The show is aired in various other languages, including German, Japanese, Catalan, Persian, and Czech....
Mit den Clowns kamen die Tränen
Character: Francine Renaud
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Panique dans l'oreillette
Character: Self
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David Lansky
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Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
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La Dame d'Izieu
Character: Sabine Zlatin / The Lady of Izieu
When on April 6, 1983, just a few months after the arrest and extradition of Klaus Barbie on French soil, Sabine Zlatin found herself alone in Izieu to commemorate the roundup of April 6, 1944, only one question arose: after her, who will maintain the flame of the memory of the 44 Jewish children arrested and deported that day? Sabine's concern is all the more acute when she learns that the Izieu roundup cannot be included in the trial of the former Nazi, for lack of evidence. Sabine fights so t...
30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
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La Télé des années 90
Character: Self
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I Married a Shadow
Character: Patricia Meyrand
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident....
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Character: Micheline
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems....
Follow My Gaze
Character: Une fille délurée
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a st...
Un père et passe
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Camille (Penelop Schallenberg) is the only child of her unmarried journalist mother Marianne (Veronique Genest). She has never known who her father is, and her mother isn't telling. However, in her rush to get to an assignment in the Middle East, her mother left behind three letters addressed to three men Camille has never heard of. When she opens the letters, she discovers that they exhort each of the men to look after Camille, as they may be her father. Naturally, Camille looks them up, letter...
Chère canaille
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Francis Lebovic, an ex-voyou turned sex worker, is not lacking in charm or elegance. David, his thirteen-year-old godson, accepts Francis' proposal to record a record without much enthusiasm. His voice, combined with his physique, gives rise to hope. Francis will be able to pay off his debts; Lino and Daisy, David's parents, will be able to do some work in their café. Everything would be just fine if Frédérique Henriot, a young lawyer, hadn't come to live in the house where they all live, in thi...
8 on a Beach Chair
Character: Florence
They were not meant to meet... He (Pierre): a workaholic company manager born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He is a widower who jealously guards the domestic equilibrium he has rebuilt with his three very possessive daughters. She (Florence): a divorcée of modest means who has just lost her job and has three children of her own to feed. Exuberant and candid, she is cheerful by nature. No, they were definitely not cut out to meet. But, this summer on a beach in Southern France, the impossibl...
Et demain... Hollywood
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A director and a secretary conspire to swindle a banker who is blinded by his dream of becoming an actor....
The summer of all sorrows
Character: Ginette
Algeria, summer 1961. François, 11, believes in the imminence of the end of the world. He tries to ward off fate with a prayer: “Make my parents come back. I am alone. I'm afraid"...
Sixième classique
Character: Simone
By dint of inventing stories, a boy neglected by his mother comes to lead a double life....
Legitimate Violence
Character: Lucie
In the course of a violent hold-up at Deauville station, several innocent bystanders are shot dead. The victims include a politician, Robert Andréani, and three members of the same family. Devastated by the death of his wife, daughter and mother, Martin Modot resolves that their killers will be brought to justice. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, he decides to take matters into his own hands, with the support of a neo-fascist vigilante organization....
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Character: Self (archive footage)
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On n'est pas là pour s'aimer
Character: Frédérique Letheil
Frédérique Letheil, who heads the research department of the Emmerson oil group, has sacrificed her private and sentimental life to her experiments. The management, which sees her work as a financial drain, has her unjustly dismissed by the group's general manager, Maxime Vergnaud. When the company realizes its mistake and the economic and ecological potential of Frédérique's research, it asks Maxime to bring her back at all costs....
Merci patron
Character: Hélène Scoffie
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Une femme si parfaite
Character: Anne Joubert
As the mother of a 16-year-old girl, Anne Joubert is happy in her job and in her marriage. But when she learns that her daughter is using drugs, everything she took for granted suddenly collapses. She is forced to begin a major overhaul of her life....
The Lady Banker
Character: Maid
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her....
Un amour de cousine
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Guy de Maupassant
Character: Fanny
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant....
La Baston
Character: Denise Levasseur
After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of expensive medical help, René can't refuse the offer to crack a safe in a villa. What René and his pals don't know is that they serve as a decoy for criminals who have much bigger plans. Can he escape from the police?...
The Basileus Quartet
Character: Sophia
The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years, are turned upside down after the death of the leader, Oscar Guarneri. The three aging musicians decide to split up to pursue those pleasures they've denied themselves too long....
Si on savait
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One Can Always Dream
Character: La prostituée amatrice d'opéra
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket....
Adam et Ève
Character: Lydie
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Le Président, sa femme et moi !
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La bonne dame de Nancy
Character: Simone Weber
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Ça n'arrive qu'à moi
Character: Prudence
A particularly unlucky man meets a beautiful young woman, daughter of a rich businessman. This one, pursued by blackmailers, is going to take him along in her galleys....
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Character: Sylvie
Truck driver Jeff agrees to take the son of his biggest customer along on the road and explain the tricks of the trade to him....
Portrait Craché
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L'Amuse-gueule
Character: Eva Dulac
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Droit dans le mur
Character: Myriam Valensky, la sœur de Romain
Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing a play directed by his sister while also dealing with his wife, mistress, taxes, low self-esteem, demands for attention from his two children, and a private detective attempting to snap incriminating photos. Producer Jean-Louis Levi appears in a cameo as a poverty-stricken bum....
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Character: Marthe
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple....
Face à face
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Gina & Cléopâtre
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Gina et Cléopâtre
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While in a small Parisian theater, Hans-Peter Hansel (aka HPH), a former glory of the subsidized theater, prepares the sulphurous staging of "Antoine et Cléopâtre", Gina Monte-Fiori, the queen of the boulevard of the Parisian theater , has always dreamed of playing in a Shakespeare tragedy. But, disappointment, although she spoke of this wish to the press, no proposal followed. Yet someone heard his wish. It is about Gino di Lucca, American producer, former lover of Gina. She wants to play in S...