Alexandra Lamy has more than one string to her bow: sometimes actress, sometimes director, the actress has just accepted a brand new, most prestigious position! In a press release published this Wednesday, October 18, 2023, the National Center for Cinema and Animated Images, commonly abbreviated CNC, announces the appointment of the ex-wife of Jean Dujardin to the presidency of the Selective Audiovisual Aid Commission in fiction and animation. Alexandra Lamy will team up with Julien Borde, new vice-president. The duo succeeds to these two positions at Pénélope Bagieu and Sydney Gallondewhom the president of the CNC, Dominique Boutonnat, warmly thanked in this press release.
Other pretty names from the film industry complete this commission, such as the producer Thomas Viguier, the artistic advisor of M6 Gilles Romele, the screenwriter Anaïs Topla, the head of the fiction-documentary division of TV5 Monde Christophe Assezat, the producer Charlotte Monsarrat , and writer-directors Stéphanie Pillonca and Philippe Riche. “It’s lucky to have a personality as radiant and talented as Alexandra Lamy at the head of this commission essential to French audiovisual creation. Fiction and animation are two genres where we are experiencing more and more success, thanks to the ambition of professionals supported by the CNC. I am sure that she will do an excellent job there with her vice-president, Julien Borde, and the other members.” commented the CEO of the CNC Dominique Boutonnat.
She’s not stopping cinema yet!
Alexandra Lamy is not putting her film career on hold, however! The one who recently made her very first TV film called Affected and worn by Claudia Tagbo, Mélanie Doutey and her daughter Chloé Jouannet, is indeed continuing her professional career, and will soon be starring in a Netflix series alongside her daughter Chloé and her sister Audrey Lamy: in Killer Coaster, Alexandra Lamy will play Sandrine, a clumsy contract worker who thinks she is a CIA agent and who decides to investigate a mysterious accident that occurred on the ghost train at the local fairground. To do this, the investigator will have to team up with two fairground people who are completely opposite: Carmen and Yvanne. In 2024, we will also find her in at least two films at the cinema, Louise Violetin which she will play a teacher sent to a village in 1889, and The green promise, in which she will lead a fierce fight against palm oil exploitation, to save her son from a death sentence in Indonesia. Two great promises, which should delight the critics!