Camille Cottin

Did You Know?

• Her mother's family is Jewish and were pieds-noirs, French citizens living in Algeria during the colonial period.
• She spent her teenage years in London before returning to France to become a high school English teacher.
• She took classes at a theatre and dramatic art school and later with the company Théâtre du Voyageur.

Career

Cottin began with small roles in film and television. In 2009 she joined the Troupe à Palmade and appeared in a Japanese telephone advertisement directed by Wes Anderson featuring Brad Pitt. Her breakthrough came in 2013 when she played the main role in Connasse, a candid-camera sketch series on Canal+ produced by Silex Films. The series was written by Noémie Saglio and Éloïse Lang and broadcast on Le Grand Journal. A film adaptation, The Parisian Bitch, Princess of Hearts, followed in 2015. That same year she began playing lead agent Andréa Martel in Call My Agent!, a France 2 series later distributed internationally on Netflix; she won a Best Actress ACS Award for the role. In 2016 she appeared in Allied, In the Shadow of Iris, and The Fabulous Patars. In 2022 she joined the cast of A Haunting in Venice, directed by Kenneth Branagh. In 2023 she had a role in the film Golda.

Personal life

Camille Cottin’s father is the artist Gilles Cottin, and her great-great-grandfather was historian Paul Cottin, who once ran the Bibliotheque de l’Arsenal. Since 2005, she has been with architect Benjamin Mahon; the couple have a son born in 2009 and a daughter born in August 2015, but they are not married. Cottin opposes marriage, explaining she values the freedom to leave if unhappy.