Amira Casar

Amira Casar
Actor
Principal country concerned : Column : Theater, Cinema/tv

Born and raised in England and Ireland, Amira Casar consequently moved to Paris to start her acting career, where she studied drama at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique and with Blanche Saland and with Paul Weaver, at the Atelier International de Théâtre.
Amira speaks both French and English fluently, with an extraordinary ear for accents and dialects. She can and has also worked in Spanish (with the spanish director Carlos Saura), Italian and German.

She has worked in theatre on both sides of the English Channel, playing the title role in Hedda Gabbler in Paris and Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn at the Almeida Theatre. She recently played the lead role of Ans in Olivier Py's production of Les Enfants de Saturne at the Théâtre National de l'Odéon.

Amira Casar enjoys challenging work on "films d'auteur" and varies international projects one of wich was the Quay brothers' Piano Tuner of Earthquakes in wich she plays an opera singer who loses her memory. She has played quite a few character parts ranging from a fat loud-mouthed lesbian to nurses and ex-terrorists.

Amira recently worked with the poetic new wave German director, Werner Schroeter (Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival - 2009), and with strong independant directors such as Catherine Breillat, Laetitia Masson, The Larrieu Brothers and Tony Gatlif.
In 2009 we saw her in the lead role in Eleonore Faucher's film Gamines, playing a woman who continues an affair with her alcoholic husband while forbiding her children acess to her husband.

In 2011, we shall see her as the lead role of Dora Maar ?'Picasso's brilliant Muse'' in La femme qui pleure au chapeau rouge for which she won Best Actress Award at La Rochelle Television Festival, in the French blockbuster La vérité si je mens 3, in Let my people go by young Indie director Mikael Buch and in Playoff by Eran Rickis, in English language.

ACTIVITIES :
Fencing
Horse-riding (include side saddle and jumping)
Swimming
Waterskiing
Snowskiing
Motorbike riding
Martial Arts
Athletics
LANGUAGES :
Speaking languages
French
English
Italien

LANGUAGES :
Experiences in movies
German
Spanish

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Films

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  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
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