Ophélie Winter
| Ophélie Winter | |
|---|---|
 Ophélie Winter at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ophélie Kleerekoper-Winter |
| Born |
20 February 1974 Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
Ophélie Kleerekoper-Winter (born 20 February 1974) is a French singer and actress.
Early life
Winter was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine. Her father David Alexandre Winter was a Dutch pop singer who had some success during the 1970s, while her mother Catherine Fefeu was a French fashion model,[1] who is now her agent. Her brother Michael is a singer and TV-presenter.
Her parents divorced when she was just 2 years old, and she moved to Paris with her mother and brother while her father left for the United States.[1] In 1984, at the age of 10 years, she recorded her first song in France, La Chanson des Klaxons, and 3 years later another song, Poil de Carotte, in French.[1] At the age of 17, she was discovered by a modeling agent on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, and after three years of modeling, she decided to become a singer and an actress.
Career
Ophélie Winter has released four albums: No Soucy!, which her brother collaborated on, Privacy, Explicit Lyrics and Résurrection. The singer Prince wrote her a song.
In late 2014 she became a contestant on the fifth season of TF1's Danse avec les Stars.
She currently resides in Paris making various TV appearances. Her look-alike puppet is in the French show "Les Guignols de l'info" (1988).
Discography
- No Soucy ! (1996)
- Released singles: "Le feu qui m'attise" ("The Air That I Breathe"); "Dieu m'a donné la foi" ("Living In Me"); "Shame on U"; "Rien que pour lui"; "Keep It on the Red Light" (feat. Coolio)
- Privacy (1998)
- Released singles: "Je marche à l'envers" ("I Spy"); "Elle pleure" ("Cry"); "Je cours" ("Up Where I Belong"); "Ce que je suis" ("What a Girl Wants")
- Explicit Lyrics (2002)
- Released singles: "Sache"; "Tout le monde le fait"; "Yeah yeah yeah"
- Résurrection (2009)
- Released singles : "Affection"; "BB t'es mon sunshine (Sunshine Remix)"
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi | Pretty Blonde of Crillon | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1997 | Tout doit disparaître | Eve Latour | Philippe Muyl | |
| Bouge! | Herself | Jérôme Cornuau | ||
| 1998 | Folle d'elle | Lisa | Jérôme Cornuau (2) | |
| 2000 | 2001: A Space Travesty | Cassandra Menage | Allan A. Goldstein | |
| La cape et l'épée | Cardinal Claudia's Girl | TV Series (1 Episode) | ||
| 2001 | She | Ayesha | Timothy Bond | |
| Pretty Things | Jessica | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | ||
| My Wife Is an Actress | Famous girl in the train | Yvan Attal | ||
| 2003 | Mauvais esprit | Chrystèle Porel | Patrick Alessandrin | |
| 2010 | R.I.S, police scientifique | Isabelle Ballancourt | François Guérin | TV Series (1 Episode) |
| 2013 | Doc Martin | Rebecca Mikelin | Jean-Pierre Sinapi | TV Series (1 Episode) |
References
- 1 2 3 "Biography of Ophélie Winter". Purepeople. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
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