My Wife Is an Actress

My Wife is an Actress
My Wife is an Actress
	Film poster
Directed by	Yvan Attal
Written by	Yvan Attal
Produced by	Claude Berri
Starring	Yvan Attal; Charlotte Gainsbourg; Terence Stamp
Cinematography	Rémy Chevrin
Edited by	Jennifer Augé
Music by	Brad Mehldau
Production; companies	Katharina; Renn Productions; TF1 Films Production
Distributed by	Pathé
Release dates	12 September 2001 (TIFF); 14 November 2001 (France);
Running time	95 minutes
Country	France
Languages	French; English
Budget	$6.4 million
Box office	$5.2 million

My Wife is an Actress (French: Ma femme est une actrice) is a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama film starring Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film. The film stars Terence Stamp among others. This film is also highly biographic, as Yvan and Charlotte are a real-life couple since 1991, and have three children. According to Yvan, the idea and a part of the plot originates from real-life events.^[3]

Cast

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Charlotte
Yvan Attal as Yvan
Terence Stamp as John
Noémie Lvovsky as Nathalie
Laurent Bateau as Vincent
Keith Allen as David
Ludivine Sagnier as Géraldine
Lionel Abelanski as Georges
Marie Denarnaud as Colette
Gilles Lellouche as The policeman
Eriq Ebouaney as The Club bouncer

Reception

The film was released on 14 November 2001 in France on 238 screens and opened at number one with a gross of 7 million Francs ($1 million) for the week.^[4] It went on to gross $3.4 million in France.^[5] It opened on 12 July 2002 in 7 theatres in the United States and grossed $49,204 in the opening weekend and went on to gross $1,121,233. It grossed $5,169,438 worldwide.^[5]