Amira Casar is a British-French film actress. She was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress for the 1997 film La Vérité si je mens! and also for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for the film To Paint or Make Love. In 2010, she won the Best Actress award at La Rochelle Television Film Festival in 2010 for her turn in La femme qui pleure au chapeau rouge.
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Early life
Amira Casar was born in London and raised in England, Ireland, and France. She studied drama at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique de Paris between 1991 and 1994. She is fluent in English, Kurdish, and French and has also worked in German, Italian, and Spanish.
Career
Casar's first role was in the 1989 film Erreur de jeunesse (Error of Youth) by Radovan Tadic. She played Sandra Benzakhem in the 1997 film La Vérité si je mens !, for which she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She later appeared in the film's two sequels, in 2001 and 2012.
Casar portrayed Myriem in How I Killed My Father (2001) by Anne Fontaine; Assia Wevill in Sylvia (2003) by Christine Jeffs; the lead role of The Woman in the Catherine Breillat erotic film Anatomy of Hell (2004); and Eva in To Paint or Make Love (2005) by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
