Returning to the cinema with the film “La Poupée”, the actress Cécile de France took part in the promotional game. The opportunity for the popular actress to clarify her supposed link with the upper middle class…
A few months later Dalloway And LouiseCécile de France is already back on the big screen. The Belgian actress who turned 50 returns to the cinema in the film The Doll. And it’s in the pages of Madame Figaro that she made some confidences. She notably mentioned her youth and this last name which suggests that she would be a great bourgeoisie.
Cécile de France “descendant of a great family” of the aristocracy?
In the magazine, the discreet star but much loved by the general public was questioned about this “misunderstanding” which still lasts on her last name. Cécile de France, a name with particles which can make one believe that she comes from the aristocracy…”When I was little, my parents enrolled me in the best local school, a middle-class Catholic private school. Because of my name, people thought I was an aristocrat, when it was quite the opposite (…) Everyone thought I lived in a castle, that I was descended from a great family, even though I was an acrobat in Brussels, my boyfriend played the djembe and I was a fire eater!“, she explained.
And the actress discovered by the French at the beginning of the 2000s in the cult film The Spanish Inn from Cédric Klapisch to continue: “For a long time I felt obliged to justify myself, because I felt distorted. But today, people understand, they don’t care, and I learned to free myself from all that…“
Cécile from France, daughter of parents at the head of “an alter-globalization café”!
The actress, mother of two children, now earns a very good living but she still keeps traces of her modest upbringing in Namur, Belgium. It must be said that she was raised by parents who had an anti-globalization café: “At my parents’ house, there was this poster “Lose your life to earn it”, and perhaps it was this warning that allowed me to be an artist.”
“Even today, I refuse to advertise, I have no particular link with the luxury industry, because it is not my culture, it is not my values. I didn’t grow up in this world. Fame and trappings of wealth just don’t speak to me. I like to stay in my place as an artist“, adds Cécile de France.
