Karin Viard

Acting

Karin Viard

Born 1966-01-24 · Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France

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).

Acting credits

La Haine poster
8.1

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

La Haine

1995

Delicatessen poster
7.3

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Delicatessen

1991

Nothing to Declare poster
5.9

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Nothing to Declare

2010

The Visitors: Bastille Day poster
4.2

Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the descendants of Godefroy and Jacquouille had their castle and all their property confiscated by arrogant aristocrats, fleeing and lifes hanging by a thread.

The Visitors: Bastille Day

2016

Emmène-moi poster
6.0

Authentically painful study of an ill-matched couple's forlorn attempts to revive their relationship after a two-year break.

Emmène-moi

1995

Perfect Nanny poster
6.1

When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume her activity in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. After a severe casting, they hire Louise, who quickly conquers the affection of children and gradually occupies a central place in the home. Gradually the trap of mutual dependence will close, until the tragedy.

Perfect Nanny

2019

Trophy Wife poster
6.1

In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acquiescent wife, Suzanne, whose father had founded the factory, takes over management duties during Robert's convalescence.

Trophy Wife

2010

The Bélier Family poster
7.0

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

The Bélier Family

2014

Bécassine ! poster
4.8

Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely baby named Loulotte. A strong bond develops between Becassine and Loulotte, and life is sweet, until the Grand-Airs are threatened with financial ruin… Can Bécassine save the day? Naïve, funny, dreamy, optimistic, loving, Bécassine is also inventive, courageous and always ready to handle any situation in her own unique way – a superheroine like no other. César-winner Bruno Podalydès returns with a family movie adapted from the beloved French comic book Bécassine.

Bécassine !

2018

Little Tickles poster
7.4

Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.

Little Tickles

2018

The Ax poster
6.9

Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.

The Ax

2005

Polisse poster
7.8

Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team.

Polisse

2011

Species poster
NR

Margot, a young intern at the country's most competitive ER, struggles in the high-pressure environment. When multiple patients her age arrive with strange symptoms, her own body begins experiencing alarming transformations.

Species

2026

On Air poster
5.8

At 40, Molina is the most famous radio host in France: she hosts a nightly call-in show where she answers questions from callers with sexual and emotional problems. When she decides to look for her mother whom she never knew, she discovers her living in the suburbs.

On Air

2012

The Children poster
5.6

Pierre Esteban is a middle-aged technology teacher, divorced from Hélène, who has two children. Jeanne Lancry is a lively estate agent in the same situation : a divorcée with two children. They discover they love visiting empty apartments together and...more than just that! Life would be just wonderful if they were fifteen years earlier. But there are the children. It would be fine to live altogether in the same place. The question is : will the kids get on well with each other?

The Children

2005

Maria into Life poster
6.0

Maria is a cleaning lady, who is reserved, shy and clumsy. When she is assigned to the School of Fine Arts, she meets Hubert, the school's whimsical guardian. There she discovers a fascinating place where freedom, creativity and daring reign.

Maria into Life

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Parade nuptiale

Fantasies poster
5.1

Faced with their fantasies, six couples try to explore the hidden sides of their intimate life. Six questions on access to pleasure. From role play to abstinence, via exhibition, six separate stories with the same questioning of desire today in the center.

Fantasies

2021

Hell poster
6.1

Three sisters who share a connection to a violent childhood incident reunite for the chance to come to terms with their past.

Hell

2005

Lolo poster
5.3

On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René. Against all odds, there’s a real chemistry between them and at the end of the summer, Jean-René wastes no time in joining his beloved in Paris. But there’s trouble in paradise, and a third party swiftly appears to shatter the couple’s idyll: Lolo, Violette’s ultra-possessive 19-year-old son, who is determined to get rid of his mother’s lover, whatever it takes…

Lolo

2015

Une Fille en or poster
4.7

On the day Clémence realizes that no one has ever admired her, her father dies. Lulled by the illusions of the remnants of a complicated childhood, Clémence has no choice but to rebuild her self-esteem, which she never thought could be so low. When fate brings her together with a certain Paul, whom everyone nicknames Paul Pot because of his strong tendency toward tyranny, Clémence asks herself the only question that matters: is this the right person?

Une Fille en or

2026

True Enough poster
5.2

Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.

True Enough

2007

Auntie Danielle poster
6.5

A black comedy about a widow who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets.

Auntie Danielle

1990

Madame de Sévigné poster
5.1

In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman in her own image. But the more she tries to control the young woman's destiny, the more she alienates her. Mother and daughter then experience the throes of a singular and devastating passion. A major work of French literature is born from this devastation.

Madame de Sévigné

2024

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