Les Bronzés, Gazon maudit, Grandpa resists… These are the films that have contributed to the success of actress Josiane Balasko. At 71, the mother of Marilou Berry is one of the sacred monsters of French cinema. It was all alone, without being able to identify with other celebrities of her time, that she built herself, as she told our colleagues from Pleine Vie in June 2021.

“I started this job with the Splendid team, and our models, we created them by inventing our shows which, without us, would not have existed. At the age of 25, I also played women who had 35. So I had neither lighthouse nor career plan, I often repeated a sentence à la Coluche: “Me, I want to be a star. “Because they play more. With the success of the Bronzés, it started differently,” she said. It is by turning in comic films that the star started her career but the public has also rediscovered her in more dramatic roles.

“Too beautiful for you was a turning point in 1989, because I had never been seen in this kind of role (…) For a long time, I did not fit into the frame, fortunately I had my own universe and, there again, the roles, I wrote them to myself. Things have changed, I am offered different projects. For example, I have just shot a musical comedy in Lourdes, Tralala, by the Larrieu brothers”, a- she recounted.

Over the course of her career, the actress has changed considerably. Planet invites you to discover several shots of the star at the start of her career.