Lorraine Lévy


Lorraine Lévy is a French screenwriter, film and stage director, and playwright. She is the sister of writer Marc Levy.

Life and career

After studying literature and law, Lévy became a screenwriter for Jean-Loup Dabadie and René Cleitman while also working as an editor for a publishing house that specializes in art. In 1985, she founded the stage company Compagnie de l'Entracte which staged her first play Finie la comédie. Mostly a screenwriter, she has written screenplays for many telefilms and several episodes of the series Joséphine, ange gardien. In 2004, she made her feature film directorial debut with the comedy film The First Time I Turned Twenty.

Filmography

Theatre

YearTitleNotes
1987Finie la comédie
1990Le Partage
1991Zelda ou Le MasquePrix Beaumarchais
1993La Vie extraordinaire de Léonie Coudray
1993Noces de cuir