Alice Dufour
Alice Dufour | |
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| Born | 22 February 1987 Saint-Lô, France |
| Nationality |  French |
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| Years active | early 2000s-present |
| Known for | Alibi.com, Hard, Alphonse, |
| Spouse | François Vincentelli (2015-present) |
| Children | 1 |
Alice Dufour (born 22 February 1987) is a French actress, model and former rhythmic gymnast.
Biography
[edit]Dufour took up rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 7 at the Saint-Loise club where she was spotted five years later to join the Orléans pole alongside Eva Serrano. Preferring to return to her club, Alice returned to Saint-Lô the following year and obtained the bronze medal in senior national B in 2007. Under the colors of the Paris Center club, she distinguished herself as senior French national B champion three times in a row in 2008, 2009 and 2010.[1] The French gymnastics federation then chose her as ambassador for the 2011 Montpellier World Championships.[2]
At the same time she started modelling and, in 2007, participated in the fashion show “Who's Next”.[3] She also posed for several advertisements for the brands Playtex, Isotoner, Reebook and appears in a television commercial for Samsung. From 2008 to 2010 she was a dancer at the Crazy Horse in Paris.[4] In 2009, she was featured in the Italian editions of Vanity Fair and Vogue and made her debut as an actress in Beauté fatale and Pigalle, la nuit.[3] That year she also featured in some video clips such as Ton histoire by Isabelle Boulay and Y a comme un hic by Jenifer.[5] In 2010, she posed for Gerimax and Benetton, she also appeared in a video advertisement for the latter. In the same year she appeared in a Française des Jeux' TV commercial and a GMF Internet advertisement.[1]
In 2011 she was selected by Cirque du Soleil to play a role in the new show Iris at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, United States.[6] Four years later she landed a role in the series Hard broadcast on Canal + where she met François Vincentelli, her future lover.[7] In 2017, she starred in the film Alibi.com by Philippe Lacheau.[8]
Dufour then devoted herself to theater with Let's Make a Dream, then The Secretary Bird from 2019.[9] She was nominated for the Molières awards in 2019, in the female theatrical revelation category.[10] She played, alone on stage Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler, at the Théâtre de Poche-Montparnasse, from 1 September 2020 to 3 January 2021.[7]
On 28 December 2021, she gave birth to her first child with partner François Vincentelli.
Filmography
[edit]Cinema
[edit]- 2014 : Babysitting - Philippe Lacheau
- 2016 : Rouges étaient les lilas - Jean-Pierre Mocky
- 2016 : Open at Night - Édouard Baer
- 2017: Votez pour moi - Jean-Pierre Mocky
- 2017: Alibi.com by Philippe Lacheau
- 2019: Forte - Katia Lewkowicz
- 2021: Super-héros malgré lui - Philippe Lacheau
Short films
[edit]- Les Étoiles de Papier - Roger Souza
- Le Portrait - Masaya Yamashita
- Féminité - Dan Pickard
Television
[edit]- 2013 : Little Murders of Agatha Christie - Rodolphe Tissot
- 2014 : Marjorie - Mona Achache
- 2015 : Hard: Joujou (season 3)
- 2019 : Un vrai massacre - Jean-Pierre Mocky
- 022 : L'Amour (presque) parfait - Pascale Pouzadoux
- 2023 : Cannes police criminelle - Camille Delamarre : Roxie Roland (episode 2 Coup de poker)
- 2023 : Alphonse - Nicolas Bedos : Madeleine
Theatre
[edit]- 2018 : Let's Make a Dream by Sacha Guitry, director Nicolas Briançon
- 2019 : The Secretary Bird by William Douglas-Home, director Nicolas Briançon
- 2019 : Sept ans de réflexion by George Axelrod, director Stéphane Hillel,
- 2020 : Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler, director Nicolas Briançon,
- 2023 : Joyeuses Pâques by Jean Poiret, director Nicolas Briançon
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Alice Dufour — WikiGR". wikigr.fr. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ "Championnats du Monde de Gymnastique Rythmique 2011 à Montpellier - Le clip officiel - Vidéo Dailymotion". Dailymotion. 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ a b "Alice Dufour : "Je suis guidée par ce qu'elle ressent elle et tous les états qui la traversent"". France Inter (in French). 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ rmies (2015-06-08). "Hard saison 3 : qui est Alice Dufour, la compagne de François Vincentelli dans la vie ? [Photos]". Télé Star (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ "Alice Dufour - Biographie - Colisée de Roubaix". www.coliseeroubaix.com. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ LUCOT, Sébastien (2019-01-08). "Saint-Lô. Alice Dufour, le succès d'une artiste polyvalente". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ a b Média, Prisma. "Alice Dufour - La biographie de Alice Dufour avec Gala.fr". Gala.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ Alibi.com (2016) - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-05-29 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Yvelines. Alice Dufour joue une femme libre sur la scène de Saint-Germain-en-Laye". actu.fr (in French). 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ "Elle triomphe aux côtés de Guillaume de Tonquédec : on n'arrête plus la comédienne Alice Dufour !". actu.fr (in French). 2020-01-30. Retrieved 2024-05-29.