[RwandaLibre] Julie Gayet: French president's actress lover

Julie Gayet: French president's actress lover

By Sophie Laubie (AFP) – 1 hour ago

PARIS — Julie Gayet, the actress whose affair with French President
Francois Hollande sparked a scandal and set tongues wagging worldwide,
is a prolific performer known for her versatility across 70 film
roles.

Slender, with light-chestnut hair, a ready smile and delicate
features, the 41-year-old actress has played in films ranging from
romantic comedy to thriller to drama, and is also a well-known face on
television.

But she has steered clear of the public eye since a glossy magazine
reported her affair with Hollande -- other than to sue the magazine,
Closer, for violating her privacy, seeking 50,000 euros ($68,000) in
damages and 4,000 euros in legal costs.

Closer reported in its January 10 issue that Hollande, 59, routinely
hops on a motor scooter to spend the night with Gayet in an apartment
near the Elysee presidential palace, and has his bodyguard bring them
croissants in the morning.

The scandal took its latest twist Saturday when Hollande told AFP he
had split with his long-time partner Valerie Trierweiler, who had been
France's First Lady.

Trierweiler, 48, has been holed up in a presidential residence outside
Paris after being hospitalised for a week when Closer broke its story.

Hollande has known Gayet since at least 2012, when she campaigned for
him ahead of the presidential election that brought him to power.

She featured in a campaign clip in which she described him as a
"humble", "fantastic" man "who is really tuned-in".

Known for being energetic and headstrong, Gayet also recently
campaigned in favour of gay marriage, one of Hollande's most socially
divisive policy priorities.

Born in the upmarket Paris suburb of Suresnes on June 3, 1972, Gayet
trained as an actress and studied art history.

After an internship in London with Jack Waltzer of the Actors Studio,
she studied at the Fratellini Academy circus school in Paris and
trained in classical singing.

She started her cinema career in 1993, appearing in Konstantinos
Costa-Gavras's "Little Apocalypse" and "Blue", the first film in
Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colours" trilogy.

But it was a 1996 comedy, Dominique Farrugia's "Delphine 1, Yvan 0",
that made her a star in France.

She followed that with "Select Hotel", directed by Laurent Bouhnik,
playing a young drug-addicted prostitute -- a role that won her the
Romy Schneider prize in 1997, the French film industry's most
prestigious award for emerging young actresses.

She can currently be seen in "Les Ames de Papier" (Paper Souls) by
Belgian director Vincent Lannoo.

Gayet is known for being daring when taking on movie projects.

"What I like about this profession is entering into different worlds,"
she said in 2002.

In 2007 she opened a small production company, producing "Fix Me" by
Palestinian Raed Andoni and "Bonsai" by Chile's Cristian Jimenez,
among other films.

She described it as a "logical follow-up" to her work as an actress.

Last year she co-directed a documentary on filmmakers.

Gayet is the mother of two adolescent children from her union with the
Argentinian author and screenwriter Santiago Amigorena, whom she
married in the early 2000s. They have since separated.

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