Fanny Cottençon

Acting

Fanny Cottençon

Born

1957-05-11 (69)

Place of birth

Port Gentil, Gabon

Known for

Acting

Credits

77 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

And Yet We Were All Blind poster
5.4

Who has never heard of pregnancy denial? This condition, often caused by miscellaneous circumstances, escapes our understanding and even science. How can the mind of a pregnant woman hide a child growing in her body?

And Yet We Were All Blind

2023

Paul & Paulette Take a Bath poster
NR

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual friendship that grows around a dark game; reenacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred. As their morbid road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity.

Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

2025

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo poster
6.3

Anna, 35, single, and a gendarme captain, finds herself working a complex case. Mylène, 60, a concert pianist of international renown, is found dead in her cottage, smothered in her sleep.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

2024

Le Liechi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Liechi

2023

Above the Sky poster
6.1

After losing the use of her legs in an plane crash at 18, Dorine earns her pilot's license and dedicates herself to advocating for disability rights.

Above the Sky

2020

Scènes de ménages, les secrets d'un succès poster
NR

Adapted from the Spanish series "Escenas de Matrimonio", Scènes de Ménages has been making millions of viewers laugh for the past 15 years. Over time, the original couples have been joined by other pairs of lovers. This documentary takes a behind-the-scenes look at the show.

Scènes de ménages, les secrets d'un succès

2025

César Wagner poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

César Wagner

2020

2010s · 10 titles

Bright Days Ahead poster
6.0

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?

Bright Days Ahead

2013

2 Hours from Paris poster
4.7

A mother never knew who her daughter's father was. When the daughter starts to crave an answer, they both return to their home region of Picardy to find out.

2 Hours from Paris

2018

Jusqu'au bout du monde poster
4.5

Virginie, a young woman french, goes to work to the Bresil...

Jusqu'au bout du monde

2013

Le Jour de la grenouille poster
4.0

A dedicated archaeologist, Anna Brahé, is stubbornly engaged in exploring an underground site, convinced that she will soon come across some important burial artefacts. Her superior is more sceptical and, his patience exhausted, sends Peter Morel, a renowned archaeologist, to make an assessment of Anna’s discoveries so far. Despite their differences Anna and Peter cannot help being drawn to one another as the site collapses around them...

Le Jour de la grenouille

2012

La Vérité poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Vérité

2011

Pleins feux poster
NR

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Catherine Moreau is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Adeline Margaux. Catherine maneuvers her way into Adeline's role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Adeline's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Catherine, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Pleins feux

2017

Online Billie poster
NR

The story of a wannabe actor who falls in love with a camgirl.

Online Billie

2019

A Dimanche Prochain poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Dimanche Prochain

2013

Me and El Che poster
NR

GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend his principles. As a matter of fact, he was one of El Che’s last companions. It was somewhere over there, in Bolivia, in 1967. At least, that’s what he tells everyone...

Me and El Che

2018

Le Gendre idéal 2 poster
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

Le Gendre idéal 2

2010

2000s · 15 titles

Conversations with My Gardener poster
6.5

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

Conversations with My Gardener

2007

Room of Death poster
6.3

While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also witnessed the hit-and-run and the men stealing the ransom.

Room of Death

2007

Mixed Marriage poster
5.1

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.

Mixed Marriage

2004

The Cane of My Father poster
7.5

A story of a big family living in French countryside between First and second world wars.

The Cane of My Father

2000

La fille de son père poster
10.0

A man decides to pose as his friend and claim to be the father of a child that isn't his.

La fille de son père

2001

Can You Keep a Secret? poster
6.5

Delphine passes herself off as her boss's lover.

Can You Keep a Secret?

2008

Comme un jeu d'enfants poster
NR

Leo, a 12-year-old orphan in the care of social services, struggles to fit in with the families he is placed with. Social services give him one last chance by placing him with the Dumont family, who live on an isolated farm in Haute-Provence, until he reaches adulthood. But Léo quickly realizes that this foster family is very different from the others: Jacques, the father, tyrannizes his wife and son. His arrival proves to be a real challenge for this drifting couple: for one, it is the hope of a new beginning, and for the other, yet another obstacle. Léo also befriends the son, Thomas, much to the chagrin of Jacques, who will do everything he can to separate them, to the point of becoming their common enemy...

Comme un jeu d'enfants

2009

Change My Life poster
5.2

Slightly over-the-hill actress Nina has a fainting spell in a Paris park and Sami, an Algerian man, out for a run comes to her aid. She seeks him out afterwards to return some property and discovers he works at night as a female prostitute. Nina is drawn to him and a friendship develops as he attempts to kick his drug habit and she tries to revive her acting career that sidelined when she moved to Russia for years.

Change My Life

2001

Alive poster
5.5

After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.

Alive

2002

A Child's Secret poster
6.1

Set in 18th century, a 10 year old deaf boy has been abandoned by his mother, Comtesse de Solar, and is taken care by Abbé de l'Épée, who teaches him how to comunicate and express.

A Child's Secret

2006

Le Gendre idéal poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Le Gendre idéal

2008

Le temps d'un regard poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le temps d'un regard

2007

Carrot Top poster
5.4

A good-natured kid struggles to earn his mother's love without much success.

Carrot Top

2003

Salut la vie poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Salut la vie

2001

Granny boom poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Granny boom

2006

1990s · 6 titles

La Voisine poster
8.0

A retired woman befriends her neighbor without suspecting that it is her own daughter whom she abandoned at birth.

La Voisine

1997

Pandora poster
7.0

It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boat by the name of Pandora, but in the morning Raul sails away, alone. Elsa and Teresa will start a new life...

Pandora

1996

Les Clés du Paradis poster
5.4

Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives.

Les Clés du Paradis

1991

Le manège de Pauline poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le manège de Pauline

1991

Ça reste entre nous poster
4.4

Martin Lamotte made his directorial debut with this French comedy. Building contractor Patrick is unaware that Helene, his wife for 15 years, intends to celebrate their wedding anniversary with a surprise party. She's invited friends and relatives to spend the weekend at their blue house. Elsewhere down the road, at an identical blue house, Patrick and his other love, Elizabeth, the mother of his two-year-old daughter, are planning an engagement party for the son of their neighbor. Neither woman knows about the other, and this sticky situation requires Patrick to rush back and forth from one blue house to another throughout the evening. The story is told in flashback by Patrick -- from his hospital bed.

Ça reste entre nous

1998

Les hommes et les femmes sont faits pour vivre heureux… mais pas ensemble poster
7.0

Alfred, in his forties, runs a publishing company and lives with his wife, Maurane. But he suddenly sees his life as a happy routine, but totally devoid of passion, so he proposes to his wife to replay their encounter, to separate from her in order to win her back. The next morning, Maurane disappeared. A few days later, Alfred meets Catherine Wolf, a young writer, who strangely reminds him of Maurane.

Les hommes et les femmes sont faits pour vivre heureux… mais pas ensemble

1995

1980s · 20 titles

Golden Eighties poster
6.5

In a lively shopping center, proprietors and customers are bustling, including three women vying for a man's heart with song and dance.

Golden Eighties

1986

Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator poster
6.2

Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young woman in underwear on his doorstep: his neighbor Eva! She tells him she locked herself out of her apartment and insists that he helps her. Whilst Yan is trying to enter Eva's apartment via their adjoining balcony, his phone rings. It is Florence, and she is not impressed when a female voice answers the phone. At this point, Eva's rabidly jealous boyfriend Boris returns home. Seeing Yan in his apartment, he deduces that Eva has been having an affair behind his back. Florence then turns up and Yan tries in vain to explain the situation. By chance, Florence's husband suddenly puts in an appearance. After that, it all starts to get a bit complicated.

Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator

1988

The North Star poster
6.3

Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.

The North Star

1982

Fanny Straw-Top poster
5.0

In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend

Fanny Straw-Top

1984

Le Roi des cons poster
4.8

Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell me about love and spread the messages of Georges, who soon became a sex symbol.

Le Roi des cons

1981

A Friend of Vincent poster
6.2

Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.

A Friend of Vincent

1983

Signé Furax poster
4.9

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

Signé Furax

1981

Tête à claques poster
5.2

Alex Berthier would love to be a famous songwriter. Meanwhile, he has to cope with unemployment, a witty 12 years old son and a rich and cute heiress who tries to help Alex as much as he tries to escape her: she brings nothing but trouble ! Fortunately, luck will strike again.

Tête à claques

1982

Les Fausses Confidences poster
5.5

Araminte is a wealthy young widow. Over a matter of land, she is in conflict with Count Dorimont, whom her mother would like her to marry. In need of a steward, she hires Dorante, a handsome young man without a fortune, whose secret ambition is to win the young woman's heart and hand. It's Dubois, Dorante's former valet, now Araminte's, who, by manipulating all the household staff, hatches a plot based on true, false and mixed confidences, designed to lure Araminte into Dorante's arms. Dorante eventually confesses to Araminte, who forgives him and marries him.

Les Fausses Confidences

1984

The Seasons of Pleasure poster
4.6

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.

The Seasons of Pleasure

1988

La Folle Journée ou Le Mariage de Figaro poster
7.5

The Marriage of Figaro, an adaptation of Beaumarchais' play, depicts a veritable social and romantic battle on the day of Figaro and Susanna's wedding, as Count Almaviva attempts to seduce the young woman despite her impending marriage. Throughout this eventful day, servants and masters clash in a game of intrigue, disguises, letters, and misunderstandings, each trying to thwart the other's plans. Figaro, cunning and determined, refuses to be humiliated, while Susanna and the Countess join forces to foil the Count's intentions. Around them gravitate Cherubino, Basilio, Bartolo, Antonio, and Marcellina, who further complicate the plot by adding jealousies, misunderstandings, and unexpected twists. Little by little, the Count's manipulations are exposed, and the women play a decisive role in the denouement.

La Folle Journée ou Le Mariage de Figaro

1989

Volley for a Black Buffalo poster
6.2

During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to know the lives of the drunkard teacher, his husband-cheating wife, the lonely music teacher hiding behind her paper flowers, the wise count deprived of all his properties, the jovial parish priest and especially the buffalo owner of tragic fate who lost his four daughters, alongside with the young protagonist.

Volley for a Black Buffalo

1985

Femmes de personne poster
4.2

Cécile, a single mother, contrives to meet Gilquin, the married father of a classmate of her nearly-adolescent son. An affair ensues. Isabelle, approaching middle age with two children, discovers she's pregnant, goes into a funk, and arranges for a younger woman to seduce her husband. Adeline is distraught at her ex-lover's plan to leave France. The three women are colleagues at a radiology clinic. They come to each other's aid, but each must decide on her own what course to take: Cécile with Gilquin, Isabelle with her husband, and Adeline with her solitude.

Femmes de personne

1984

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes poster
4.5

Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too many around him.

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes

1987

The Impostures of Scapin poster
6.8

Octave has married Hyacinthe during the absence of Argante, his father.

The Impostures of Scapin

1981

Paradise for All poster
6.0

Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.

Paradise for All

1982

Gros Cœurs poster
7.0

Jean-Noël Tavernier is a big-hearted guy, a former professional driver with a love for powerful cars, determined to reconnect with his lifelong passion thanks to a 600-horsepower Porsche he rented through a classified ad, unaware of the mess he was getting himself into. He also has a big heart, torn between his daughter Emmanuelle and her teenage moods, his supermodel mistress Cléo, and a grumpy wife who hires an overzealous private detective to follow him.

Gros Cœurs

1987

Spécial police poster
4.5

Paris Flic and computer-crack David Ackermann is a teacher at the academy advising the rookies in computer-crime. By coincidence Informations about personalities from the high-politics and police-authorities that are involved in organized crime fall into his hands. From than on he's been chased merciless, even having his ex-wife kidnapped to blackmail him. With the help from his new girlfriend he lashes back.

Spécial police

1985

Tout le monde peut se tromper poster
5.7

A young woman, employed in a jewelry store, decides to take advantage of the heist she witnesses. She shoots down one of the burglars; the other will pursue her.

Tout le monde peut se tromper

1983

Diary of a Madman poster
7.0

In the nineteenth century, in St. Petersburg. Poprichtchine, a small official living almost in misery, decides not to go to the office. Coming from a noble family, he can not stand his condition anymore.

Diary of a Madman

1987

Series credits

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Candice Renoir poster
7.2

Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!

Candice Renoir

2013

Cassandre poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Cassandre

2015

Rembob'Ina poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rembob'Ina

2018

The Wagner Method poster
6.6

Police Captain César Wagner is a compulsive hypochondriac, obsessed with his work. His singular, distinctive style unsettles not only his suspects but also the members of his squad.

The Wagner Method

2020

Les Aventurières poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Aventurières

2025

Interventions poster
5.0

Dr. Romain Lucas is a brilliant OB/Gyn working in a public hospital in Paris.Together with his team, they face life-and-death situations that call for hard choices - no matter the cost.

Interventions

2014

Lost Signs poster
7.0

A strange geometric shape in a field becomes the key to a young woman's dark family past.

Lost Signs

2007

No Time for Goodbye poster
7.4

After a violent argument, 15-year-old Sofia runs away from home. The next day, her parents and brother vanish without a trace. Over 20 years later, still haunted by unanswered questions about their disappearance overshadowed by 9/11.

No Time for Goodbye

2025

Papa ou Maman poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Papa ou Maman

2018

Rien ne t'efface poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Rien ne t'efface

2025

Runaway poster
5.6

Charts the descent into hell of 16-year-old Lea, a self-assured teenager surrounded by a loving family, who comes to fall under the influence of a shady older man, and the attempts of her parents to pry her away from him.

Runaway

2021

Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut

1981

Nos vies rêvées poster
2.0

Bénédicte, Martine, and Juliette were classmates who formed an inseparable trio. Fifteen years later, Bénédicte and Martine return to their small native town of Pithiviers for Juliette’s funeral. But Juliette remains present in Bénédicte and Martine’s remembrances and through her eighteen-year-old daughter Scarlett, who bears a striking resemblance.

Nos vies rêvées

2004

Les Mystères de... poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Les Mystères de...

2017

Anne Le Guen poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Anne Le Guen

1995