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Léa Drucker
French actress (born 1972) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Léa Drucker (French: [lea dʁykɛʁ]; born 23 January 1972) is a French actress. She played Catherine Durand in the French-British television series War of the Worlds. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 2019 for her role in the film Custody.
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Early life
Born in Caen, Normandy, Drucker is the niece of television presenter Michel Drucker, and of ex-president of M6 Jean Drucker. Her father Jacques is a medical doctor, and her mother, Martine, an English teacher. She is the cousin of the journalist Marie Drucker. Her paternal grandfather was a Romanian Jewish immigrant.
Drucker studied acting at the École de la rue Blanche, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (ENSATT) in Paris.[1]
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Career
Drucker's early career encompassed both classical theatre pieces like Le Misanthrope, and contemporary plays such as Blanc by Emmanuelle Marie.[2]
She has been twice nominated for the Molière Award for Best Female Revelation, in 2001 for her role in Danny et la grande bleue and in 2004 for 84 Charing Cross Road.[3] In 2019, she won the César Award for Best Actress for Custody.[4]
In 2019, she began her first work in English-language television, starring as Catherine Durand in three seasons (24 episodes) of the StudioCanal French-British television series War of the Worlds (2019–2022), alongside Gabriel Byrne and Daisy Edgar-Jones.[5]
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Personal life
Drucker is in a relationship with director and screenwriter Julien Rambaldi. They have one daughter, born in 2014.[3][6][7]
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