Axelle Laffont

Acting

Axelle Laffont

Born 1970-07-24 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Axelle Laffont (born 24 July 1970) is a French actress and comedian. She was born in Marseille. She is both the granddaughter of publisher Robert Laffont, and the daughter of Patrice Laffont, television presenter, and Catherine Laporte. She is also the stepdaughter of Édouard Molinaro who married her mother in 1982. Axelle Laffont participated in La Matinale d'Arthur from 1996 to 1999, but became known by intervening in La Grosse Émission from 1999 to 2000 and then presenting in 2000 and 2001 a very special weather and staggered in the show Nulle part ailleurs on Canal+, based on sketches and burlesque disguises. She also appeared in series such as Un gars, une fille, Caméra Café, H (Season 1 Episode 12: A Red Flacon) and Kaamelott (Book 3 Episode 5: Sefriane of Aquitaine). She makes a one-woman show La Folie du spectacle on a production by Serge Hazanavicius and Maurice Barthelemy of Robins des bois from 2002 to 2005. In 2007, she co-wrote and co-produced Mariage surprise. From September 2007 to January 2008, she regularly appeared in the program On n'est pas couché hosted by Laurent Ruquier on Saturday nights on France 2. In 2009, she wrote the comic, Marny. In February 2010, she released her first album Axelle Laffont in translation, which incorporates American standards translated into French. She also appeared on France Inter's Le Fou du roi. In 2012, she plays Smoke this cigarette at the Théâtre des Mathurins. In September 2015, she returned on stage with the one woman show HyperSensible, directed by Charles Templon. Source: Article "Axelle Laffont" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

MILF poster
5.7

Three childhood friends - Elise, Sonia and Cecile - leave for a summer in the South of France to help clear Cecile’s holiday house before it is put up for sale. There, they soon become the prime targets of three horny young men, for whom these single forty-year-old women are much more attractive than girls their age.

MILF

2018

Black Box poster
7.3

After being assigned to investigate the aftermath of a catastrophic plane crash, an NTSB black box analyst uncovers chilling audio anomalies that no one else seems willing to acknowledge. As he digs deeper for the truth, he provokes powerful forces determined to silence him before he exposes a shocking conspiracy.

Black Box

2021

Daddy Cool poster
5.9

Adrien, 40 years old and totally immature, is dumped by Maude, 35 years old, eager to finally found a family. In an attempt to regain the love of his life, Adrien decides to move into the future ex-married apartment: a nursery home - The beginning, an improbable educational experience.

Daddy Cool

2017

Paulette poster
6.5

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

Paulette

2012

The Race poster
4.0

Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...

The Race

2002

Jeanne and the Perfect Guy poster
5.5

Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier reveals he has AIDS and disappears from her life after her profession of love and confession of infidelity.

Jeanne and the Perfect Guy

1998

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel poster
6.5

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

1996

Poor Girl! poster
3.7

Finding herself alone and pregnant, Esther, soon to be in her thirties, rejects the proposal of Gontran, her roommate and gay lover, to raise her child together.

Poor Girl!

2003

Cavalcade poster
5.2

Leo, an accomplished playboy, neglects his girlfriend and enjoys parties. His girlfriend parts from him and then, when he wants to see her once more, he suffers an accident. He survives, but his whole life is about to change when he becomes wheelchair-bound.

Cavalcade

2005

Shooting Stars poster
4.7

A young Hungarian dreams of playing for the French football team and will get the help of a couple of friends.

Shooting Stars

2002

Zapping Family poster
7.7

A French family comments on what's on TV tonight.

Zapping Family

2005

L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ? poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?

2001

No artwork available
6.0

The misadventures of four friends hired as Santa Claus.

Les Petits Souliers

1999

Business is Booming poster
5.3

Tired of being bossed around, Jean-Jacques, a talented cook quits his job to start up his own restaurant. He does a business course run by Claude, a frustrated writer. Lacking the necessary capital to get started, Jean-Jacques realizes that his dream may come to nothing. He stresses out, can’t sleep, starts taking tranquilizers mixed with alcohol.

Business is Booming

2002

Illegal Love poster
1.0

In 2008 French filmmaker Julie Gali traveled to the US to film the election of Barack Obama. In spite of this victory for civil rights, it soon became apparent that the rights of another minority were under threat. In California the passing of Proposition 8 marked the only time in U.S. history that a civil right was actually taken away after it had been granted. Upon seeing this, Ms. Gali decided to immerse herself in the growing grassroots struggle of the gay community, which culminated in the October 11, 2009 March for Equality in Washington DC.

Illegal Love

2011

Mariage Surprise poster
2.7

When Franck, a cool and laid-back heartthrob, meets Lily, a trendy and pretty girl, sparks fly. After a sensual and tender dance, he walks her home... But the rude awakening comes... Together, they promise never to see each other again. But fate has other plans; they've both been chosen by Stephan, Franck's childhood friend, and Deborah, Lily's best friend, to organize their "Surprise Wedding"!

Mariage Surprise

2007

Axelle Laffont : HyperSensible poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Axelle Laffont : HyperSensible

2015

I Hate My Best Friends' Kids poster
5.1

A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.

I Hate My Best Friends' Kids

2007

Elie annonce Semoun, la suite... poster
5.4

After 3 years of absence, here is the sequel! A multitude of old characters revamped (Mikeline, Mr Patello Spanish version, The eh brothers, Rodriguez Father and Piss) and new ones even more crazy (Stéphane Moustachate hair stylist and Gerard the carpet cutter, The barbeque touring club of France).

Elie annonce Semoun, la suite...

2003

Axelle Laffont : La folie du spectacle poster
7.0

Do you have a guy, a girl? You have friends? Do you live somewhere? Do you have long, slender legs? Or not ? Do you have an opinion on the sauteed veal? This show concerns you. Life, death, the Infinitely Small and the Sufficiently Large: for Axelle Laffont, there are fewer and fewer taboos.

Axelle Laffont : La folie du spectacle

2004

Courts mais Gay : Tome 6 poster
NR

A collection of gay short films. The 7 short films are: Poor Girl! [Pov' fille !] (2003); Oedipus N+1 [Œdipe - [N+1]] (2003); Piglets [Ferkel] (1999); Tommy Trips [Thomas trébuche] (1999); Breakfast? [Frühstück?] (2002); Sunday Morning (2001); The Case of O [Le cas d'O] (2003).

Courts mais Gay : Tome 6

2003

On ne prête qu'aux riches poster
6.3

Marion lives alone with her 15-year-old son, Sébastien. Enrolled in an expensive private school, he does not give complete satisfaction to his mother, who bleeds to pay for his studies. A medical secretary, she is fired without warning by her boss. When her neighbor and friend, Claudie, also in financial difficulty, receives a visit from a bailiff, they decide to change their lives.

On ne prête qu'aux riches

2005

Les Petites Annonces la suite de la suite poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Les Petites Annonces la suite de la suite

2008

Behind the camera