My Wife is an Actress () is a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama film starring Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film. The film stars Terence Stamp among others. This film is also highly biographic, as Yvan and Charlotte are a real-life couple since 1991, and have three children. According to Yvan, the idea and a part of the plot originates from real-life events.
Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg as Charlotte Yvan Attal as Yvan Terence Stamp as John Noémie Lvovsky as Nathalie Laurent Bateau as Vincent Keith Allen as David Ludivine Sagnier as Géraldine Lionel Abelanski as Georges Marie Denarnaud as Colette Gilles Lellouche as The policeman Eriq Ebouaney as The Club bouncer Ben Attal as little boy
Reception The film was released on 14 November 2001 in France on 238 screens and opened at number one with a gross of 7 million Francs ($1 million) for the week. It went on to gross $3.4 million in France. It opened on 12 July 2002 in 7 theatres in the United States and grossed $49,204 in the opening weekend and went on to gross $1,121,233. It grossed $5,169,438 worldwide.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 65% based on 72 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10.
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