Sylvie Verheyde


Sylvie Verheyde is a French film director, actress, and screenwriter.

Career

The films Verheyde has directed include Un frère, in which Emma de Caunes won a César Award for Most Promising Actress, Princesses, Amour de Femme, Stella and Confession of a Child of the Century, starring Pete Doherty, which was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Sex Doll, and Madame Claude.
With Sylvie Ohayon, she co-wrote the screenplay of the 2021 film Haute Couture.
Stella and Stella In Love are both based on Verheyde's childhood. Sex Doll and Madame Claude are about prostitution, a topic close to Verheyde as her grandmother and one of her cousins were prostitutes.

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