My Wife is an Actress (French: Ma femme est une actrice) 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.
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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.