We know the discreet, modest actor. In the city, the actor is a little less. As we know, love gives wings! And the immense one that he feels for Alexia Stresi makes François Berléand want to shout it from the rooftops, starting with that of his country house in Saint-Jean de Luz. Between the two lovers, it was love at first sight. "I fell in love with Alexia the second I saw her, in 1999, on the set of let's wander in the forest, says the famous director of the boarding school Choristers in an interview with Paris Match. I immediately succumbed to the charm of her look, to her beauty."But at the time, the two were in a relationship. François Berléand then shared the life of actress-director Nicole Garcia, ex-wife of Jean Rochefort.
First scriptwriter, then actress and author of novels
"(…) nothing happened between us. Just a friendship that made us meet about twice a year, he reveals to the magazine. And then we separated from our spouses and, two months later, we found each other. " To never leave each other again. Alexia Strasi first studied writing within the prestigious FAMU from Prague where Miloš Forman or Emir Kusturica came from. It is by chance that she recounts having started as an actress on a film by Costa Gavras, while she was working with the director to pay for her studies. She then chained the small roles on the screen, until 1998 when she was revealed by the film Too much (little) love by Jacques Doillon. In 2017, she published her first novel, Looping, who was selected in the final of the Goncourt Prize for the first novel. Alexia Strasi and François Berléand are parents of two twins, Adèle and Lucie, born in 2008.
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