Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, Piedmont. Although she began acting in 1986, only recently has she been chosen to play in top roles of internationally acclaimed movies. These include Ten Minutes Older (2002); If I Were a Rich Man (2002); Bernardo Bertolucci's "Histoire d'eaux" segment in the movie The Cello; and 5x2 (2004) and Le Temps qui reste (2005) by François Ozon, in which she played the main female role. She stars in the 2006 A Good Year directed by Ridley Scott. Bruni Tedeschi was present at the 2005 Berlinale film festival to promote two films: Tickets (2005), a three-segment movie by Ermanno Olmi (in whose segment she played the female lead), Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach; and Crustacés et coquillages, a comedy by the witty French duo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. Her debut film as a director, Il est plus facile pour un chameau, won awards at the Tribeca and Ankara Women's film festivals. It is an autobiographical account of Bruni's upbringing.