Karin Viard
- Acting
- January 24, 1966 · Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Biography
Karin Viard (born in 1966 in Rouen) is a French actress. After training in drama in Rouen and later in Paris, she made her screen debut in the early 1990s, notably appearing in Étienne Chatiliez's Tatie Danielle (1990) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen (1991). She gained public recognition with Philippe Harel's comedy Hiking (Les Randonneurs, 1997). Throughout her career, she has alternated between comedies, dramas, and stage productions. She has won three César Awards: Best Actress for Sólveig Anspach's Haut les cœurs ! (1999), and two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress for Michel Blanc's Summer Things (Embrassez qui vous voudrez, 2002) and Andréa Bescond and Éric Métayer's Little Tickles (Les Chatouilles, 2018). Her filmography also includes critical and commercial successes such as The Role of Her Life (Le Rôle de sa vie, 2004), Polisse (2011), The Bélier Family (La Famille Bélier, 2014), Jalouse (2017), and Madame de Sévigné (2024).
Known for
Filmography
- Roxie au milieu
- A Man's Skin · Queen
- Species · Hélène
- Chamouxland : la reconstruction
- Le camping, un siècle de bonheur français · Self : Narrator
- Une Fille en or · Karin Viard
- La Maison des Femmes : Action ! · Self
- A Place for Her · Diane
- Vanished · Hélène Lando
- Prime Rush · Anne Chalamont
- Suzanne Valadon, peintre sans concession · Voix
- Before What Comes After · Cancer Specialist
- In the Shadows · Marie-France Trémeau
- Madame de Sévigné · Madame de Sévigné
- Rire (enfin) au féminin · Self
- Têtàtête(s) · Self
- New Beginnings · Diane
- Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma · Self
- Strangers by Night · Nathalie / Jeanne, Screenplay
- Magnificat · Charlotte
- Wow! · Catherine
- Sage homme · Nathalie Martini
- Beau geste · Self
- Maria into Life · Maria
- An Ordinary Mother · Aline
- Three Times Nothing · Woman who comes to get the raclette machine
- Saddle Up For Revenge · Miranda Bloomberg
- Fantasies · Lili Michel (sketch 'Antagonistophilie')
- Tokyo Shaking · Alexandra Pacquart
- Teach Me If You Can · Narrator (Voice), Vocals
- Dear Mother · Valérie
- We're Live · Self
- Appearances · Eve
- Perfect Nanny · Louise
- Little Tickles · Mado Le Nadant
- Kiss & Tell · Véro
- Bécassine ! · Marquise de Grand-Air
- Jealous · Nathalie Pécheux
- A Bun in the Oven · Nicole
- Quotidien · Self
- The Visitors: Bastille Day · Adélaïde de Montmirail
- The Roommates Party · Christine Dubreuil
- 21 Nights with Pattie · Pattie
- Families · Forence Deffe
- Lolo · Ariane
- The Bélier Family · Gigi Bélier
- The Chef's Wife · Marithé Bressy
- Week-ends · Christine
- Le Débarquement 2 · Various Characters
- Lulu in the Nude · Lulu
- Love Is the Perfect Crime · Marianne
- Clique · Self
- Le Débarquement
- Le Débarquement
- It Happened in Saint-Tropez · Une people à Cannes soirée Melko
- Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder · Yann Piat
- On Air · Mélina
- Polisse · Nadine
- Skylab · Adult Albertine
- My Piece of the Pie · France
- L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
- Nothing to Declare · Irène Janus
- Trophy Wife · Nadège
- My Father's Guests · Babette
- C à vous · Self
- Happy End · Chloe
- Change of Plans · Marie-Laurence
- All About Actresses · Karin Viard
- Baby Blues · Alexandra
- Hikers in Saint-Tropez · Coralie
- Paris · La Boulangère
- La Face cachée · Isabelle
- True Enough · Anne
- In Mom's Head · Juliette "Juju" Gotchac
- Ambitious · Judith Zahn
- On n'est pas couché · Self
- Hell · Céline
- The Children · Jeanne Lancry
- The Ax · Marlène Davert
- The Ex-Wife of My Life · Nina