
Acting
Valérie Karsenti
Born 1968-08-26 · Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Valérie Karsenti (born 26 August 1968) is a French television, film, stage and voice actress. She is best known for her role as Liliane in the sitcom Scènes de ménages. Valérie Karsenti was born in Pantin in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis. She started at the age of 15 taking acting classes before joining the National School of Arts and Theater (ENSATT). She was still a student when Jean-Louis Thamin hired her to play in L'Étourdi with Roland Blanche and Jean-Pierre Lorit. After leaving the ENSATT in 1988, she later portrayed important roles in television films such as Sniper and Édouard et ses filles. Since 1990, her career began to focus on theater, with her taking roles in Camus, Sartre et les autres, Colombe with Geneviève Page and Jean-Paul Roussillon, and Accalmies passagères, which received the Molière Award for best comedy show in 1997. She later played in Un fil à la patte and Un petit jeu sans conséquence, 5 Molière Awards and best private show in 2003. At that time, she appeared again on television and cinema, especially with Bertrand Blier and Lisa Azuelos. She continued doing theatre work like Comme en 14, 3 Molière Awards and one for best public show in 2004, Le Prince travesti, Exit the King with Michel Bouquet, 2 Molière Awards and one for best private show in 2005, and Adultères with Pascale Arbillot. Since 2009, she plays the role of Liliane in the sitcom Scènes de ménages, broadcast every day on channel M6. That year, she was chosen by Mabrouk El Mechri to play one of the leading roles in Maison Close, the new TV Series broadcast on Canal+. She is mother of two boys, Léon (2002) and Chaïm (2006), born from her relationship with the actor François Feroleto. Source: Article "Valérie Karsenti" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Acting credits
5.9After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.
How Much Do You Love Me?
2005
6.3Franck and his girlfriend Sonya, plus some of their friends go on holiday in Brazil. Franck, his friends, two girls and Sonya's grandmother leave to visit a cave, but everything goes wrong and their crazy adventures begin.
Babysitting 2
2015
7.4Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.
School of Life
2017
7.2Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
The Hedgehog
2009
6.5Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
2009
5.2Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his future wife. This could thus become one hellish weekend in gourmet paradise.
Champagne !
2022
4.9Florence, a lawyer overwhelmed by her family life, decides to buy a humanoid robot with a perfect physique. The robot meets all her expectations: maintain the house, take care of the children, and more... By maliciously disrupting their daily routine, the robot also arouses the jealousy of her self-centered careless husband, Franck, a second-class actor who suddenly realizes he must make some efforts not to lose the love of his wife.
Uman – The Perfect Man
2022
6.7Colin returns to Brest to discover that the petty theft he committed five years previously allowed his opportunistic parents to place his grandmother, Manou, in a home to die and lay their hands on her fortune. Now he is going to have to look the old lady in the eye. Before that, he spends Christmas with his parents and announces that he has written a novel that is soon to be published: an autobiographical work of fiction about them and their schemes…
Paris-Brest
2020
4.5No synopsis available yet.
Sale race
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pyromanes
2019
6.5Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont invités à dîner chez son beau-frère, Jean-Pierre à Créteil. C'est vrai, Alain en a marre de ces dîners familiaux, mais il ne sait pas encore ce qui l'attend véritablement ce soir-là... Ni les jours qui suivent
So Happy Together
2009
No synopsis available yet.
La Fille sur l'étagère
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5.2A young man meets his soon-to-be in-laws but discovers behind their proud and wealthy appearances some deep issues and lies.
Ma famille t'adore déjà !
2016
NRIn Le Havre, just like every morning, the 5:48 a.m. bus leaves Place des Martyrs to begin its route, driven by Gilles, a quiet and exhausted driver. This morning, at his wits’ end, despised by the authorities and abandoned by his wife, he takes his passengers hostage. While the police and media rush to the scene, inside the bus, the hostages, grappling with the same distress as Gilles, may not be so innocent after all…
5H48, Place des Martyrs
2027
6.0There's nothing to keep Yvan in Paris any longer. His wife has left him to live in Thailand. His teenage daughters have chosen to live with his sister Ariane, who is as anxious as she is admirable. Yvan is ready to leave... when beautiful Emmanuelle enters his life. She makes babies as easily as she falls in love, and she's accompanied by Léo, the little boy who Yvan's wife had with another man. Yvan is going to have to change his plans.
Low Profile
2012
6.8When Sixtine married Pierre-Louis Sue de La Garde, she was unaware of his affiliation with a fundamentalist Catholic group. Feeling trapped and threatened, she decides to flee with her baby.
Blessed be Sixtine
2024
5.2At 35, Étienne still hasn't forgiven his 'friend' Jean-Pat, who made his life miserable throughout his childhood. When he learns of Jean-Pat's death, Étienne isn't exactly devastated... Yet, despite himself, he finds himself organising the funeral of his worst enemy. One thing is certain: Jean-Pat isn't done ruining his life yet.
Goodbye, My Friend
2025
4.3This field trip seemed to be a good idea... Five days away from school, away from parents, in an organic farm, in order to enjoy the fresh air and initiate to ecology... But, in fact, everyone was a bit worried. Toto's parents, leaving their son for the first time ; Toto's teacher, at the idea of watching after him 24 hours a day ; and Toto himself, without the possibility of driving his parents nuts, without the neighbour's cat to torment, far away from the schoolyard... he was afraid to feel like time was dragging.
Les Blagues de Toto 2 - Classe verte
2023
5.2Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.
We Need Your Vote
2018
5.5Lucie, 25, dreams of becoming a dancer, even though her birth disability confines her to a wheelchair. She applies for a talent show audition, but the judges' rejection shatters her hopes. Impulsively, she throws herself down the stairs, earning her a one-way ticket to the rehabilitation center. There, she meets Alexis, a former star dancer, who agrees to train her. Faced with an immeasurable number of obstacles, but driven by a lust for life, dreams, and extraordinary independence, will Lucie succeed in realizing her dream and becoming a professional dancer?
Danse ta vie
2024
5.0With unforgettable moments of humor, nostalgia and emotion, this special program looks back on the cult shows and hosts of the French television channel M6, founded on March 1, 1987, on the occasion of its 35th anniversary.
35 ans M6 tous en scène
2022
8.0For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Pierre faces an unscrupulous culinary critic, who will offer him a dubious deal: to dismiss his historic chef in exchange for this famous star. Will the manager of the Grand Restaurant accept?
The Grand Restaurant IV
2022
4.4Several couples break up and get back together.
Modern Love
2008
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Un petit jeu sans conséquence
2002