His plays are studied in all schools in France. The work of Jean Anouilh has left a lasting mark on the heritage of our country. He also influenced, in his own way, the members of his family … since he is the grandfather of the actress Gwendoline Hamon. The playwright died when his granddaughter was 17, but he had time to dissuade her from embarking on the sixth or seventh art by pronouncing this sentence, facing her and facing her sister: “It’s a job where you have to be a whore, I don’t want you to be a whore“, as she reminds the newspaper Release.
It was my way of shouting: “Fuck you, Anouilh family!”
Suzanne Flon, his mother’s godmother, allowed him to take the plunge. His grandmother, Nicole Anouilh, also helped him develop his taste for the theater since she took him to see plays four times a week. Obviously, not everyone knows that Gwendoline Hamon is part of this famous clan, and this family tree has not always played in her favor. The actress, for example, failed her baccalaureate – which she never obtained! – by mere provocation. “I regret that no one pushed me to studyadds the former companion of Frédéric Diefenthal. It was also my way of shouting: ‘Fuck you, Anouilh family!’“