Very discreet with regard to his private life in the media, the actor Edouard Baer is the father of a young teenager named Iman. Over the years, the actor has confided in a few rare occasions about his daughter.
Fans of actor Edouard Baer will be thrilled on Sunday February 26, 2023. Indeed, that day, France 2 will broadcast the film entitled Class struggle, in which he replies to Leïla Bekhti. Directed by Michel Leclerc, this feature film features a couple living in the town of Bagnolet in Seine Saint-Denis. Sofia, played on screen by Leïla Bekhti, is a lawyer, while Paul, performed by Edouard Baeris the drummer of the punk rock band Amadeus 77. Their son Corentin, nicknamed Coco, played by the young Tom Lévy, attends the public school closest to their home. He sees his classmates leave the public primary school for the adjoining private establishmentin the name of a supposedly better education.
A situation thatEdward Baer himself lived, since he was forced to leave all his friends after being admitted to a private establishment during his schooling. “It made me very unhappy. It was no longer mixed, there were reactive, anti-Semitic hints, everything collapsed, I no longer succeeded, I didn’t understand. My parents didn’t realize that I was sad because I didn’t want to disappoint them, but it ruined those years for me. I kept a bad relationship with school, for me, it was a prison thing. As a result, I sometimes find it difficult to accompany my daughter well in her schooling… These are memories that freeze me, the arguments of priests on single-sex, like: ‘It distracts the boys from rubbing shoulders with the girls’“, he had declared in the columns of GQ.
Edouard Baer on his daughter Iman: “She has the good taste to look like her mother”
Became a father in turn in 2006, Edouard Baer has only very rarely confided in the subject of his daughter, named Iman. “If you ask me questions, I answer. Indeed, I have a 7-year-old little girl, whom I talk about in my last show… French-style ! I end my piece with: ‘I see my daughter smiling at me, going through customs at Orly.’ For the rest, she has the good taste to look like her mother and love her father’s shows. She knows the last songs by heart. To conclude on the subject, I think that discretion is a virtue and a form of elegance.“, he told Elle magazine in 2013. “My daughter goes to school in Paris, otherwise I would have left. I would have loved to set up a kind of ‘factory’, a place that is both a theatre, a film studio, a restaurant, a music hall. And open it in Dakar or Montreal, or in a provincial town like Nantes (…). But I will one day if my daughter can go to school somewhere else“, had also indicated Edouard Baer at Paris Match in 2018.