My Wife Is an Actress
| My Wife is an Actress | |
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| 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 |
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| Distributed by | Pathé |
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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.