Dominique Lavanant

A bachelor's degree in English, Dominique Lavanant begins by teaching the language in Brittany. But little attracted by the school and by the religious life of his great-great aunt founded a convent in Bretagne1), she enrolled in Paris at the theatre course of Tania f. balashova, and Andréas Voutsinas. After a few auditions, she made her debut on stage in 1970 with, in particular, Jarry sur la butte and The Caprices of Marianne. In 1976, she met the young troupe du Splendid (Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte, Christian clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Michel Blanc) and joined her in the room Love, shellfish and crustaceans. After a small appearance in the Parade by Jacques Tati, in 1974, Dominique Lavanant makes its real debut on the big screen a year later, in The Galettes de Pont-Aven, where she portrayed a prostitute brittophone, exercising its activity in traditional costume bigouden with its rotator ad hoc. It alternates frequently between the stage, film, and television. In 1978, she found her accomplices in the Skin for The Tan and then, a year later,The Bronzed are skiing, two films that very quickly become cults. Imposing regularly the image of a PREPPY a little stuck, its popularity is growing at the beginning of the 1980s with men prefer big and is there a French in the room ? It is often requested in secondary roles, she is still the headliner of Why can't we ? in 1981 and Leopard in 1984, an adventure movie, where she plays alongside Claude Brasseur. Prolific, Dominique Lavanant focuses almost exclusively in the comique genre, distinguishing himself once again with the Splendid in Grandpa makes of the resistance, where she portrays the resistant Bernadette Bourdelle, The whole family, where she played the unpayable Aunt Rita, a Bag of nodes, Three men and a baby basket, or even The Brothers Firecracker. In 1988, she won the César of the best second female role for Agent trouble Jean-Pierre Mocky. Very comfortable in the registry comedian, actress risk occasionally a film more intimate, as evidenced by his roles dansRendez-you André Téchiné or a Few days with me by Claude protestant redemption church. In 1986, she is also very convincing in the horror genre, where she holds the role of a baby sitter abusing a child, in the film Death on a Sunday of rain, Joël Santoni, with partners Nicole Garcia, and Jean-Pierre Bacri. Being more rare on the big screen in the 1990s, Dominique Lavanant turns instead to the television, making a sensation with a advertising, which was very daring for the sweets of The Vosges, or embodying them in a feuilletonImogène, woman detective in the open country bigouden. In 2000, she returned to the big screen alongside James Villeretet Josiane Balasko in A crime in paradise. In 2005, she returned to the Splendid, 27 years after, to The Bronzed 3-Friends for life and lent his voice to the grandmother in the animated film The True Story of Little red riding Hood. In 2002, she became the heroine of Sister Thérèse.com on TF1, a series created by Michel Blanc and in which she plays alongside Martin Lamotte. After 20 episodes, the series ends in march 2011.