Anny Duperey (born Annie Legras on June 28, 1947 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France) is a French stage, film and television actress and best-selling author.

Duperey made her screen debut in the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film, "2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle" (Two or Three Things I Know About Her ). In the 1974 Alain Resnais film Stavisky, she portrayed Arlette, the beautiful real-life wife of flamboyant swindler Alexandre Stavisky played by Jean-Paul Belmondo. Anny Duperey was nominated for the 1977 César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in "Un éléphant ça trompe énormément" (An Elephant Can Be Extremely Deceptive). For her work in television, she has won two 7 d'Or Night Best Actress awards. In English-language film, Anny Duperey appeared with Al Pacino in the 1977 Sydney Pollack film Bobby Deerfield. Other notable appearances include Les Compères.

In addition to her talents as an actress, Anny Duperey is a successful author of a number of bestselling books including L'admiroir (1976), Le Nez de Mazarin (Mazarin's Nose) (1986), Le voile noir (The Black Veil) (1992), Je vous écris (I'm Writing To You) (1993), Les chats de hasard (The fortune cats) (1999), Allons plus loin, veux-tu? (Let's go further, will you?) (2002) Les chats mots (The cats words) (2003) and Une soirée (An evening) (2005).

Fall of 2006, she leads in an adaption of Oscar and the Lady in Pink (Oscar et la dame rose) (2002), a novel written by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt; she can be seen in the L'Avant-Seine Theater in Colombes.

A social activist, Anny Duperey has volunteered for causes such as the international child welfare organisation SOS Children's Villages and SOS-PAPA an international organization to help ensure children of divorce have full participation by both parents. Her work earned her an appointment as Chevalier (Knight) of Legion of Honor in 1997.

Her parents died accidentally intoxicated with gas when she was eight years old. She was then raised separately from her sister - hence her work today with associations to help orphaned siblings be raised in the same household.Her experience dealing with her parents' death and her father's photographs are the topic of her book "Le voile noir". The many letters she received and what happened in her life after publishing "Le voile noir" are told in "Je vous écris".

References

1. SOS Villages d'Enfants

External links

• Mini biographie de Anny Duperey
• Anny Duperey biography (in English)