Corinne Touzet

About Corinne Touzet

Corinne Touzet (born December 21, 1959 in Orthez, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is a French actress and producer.

She is best known for the role of Isabelle Florent in the series Une femme d'honneur.

Biography
Origins and family
Corinne Touzet was born on December 21, 1959 in Orthez in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

She is the daughter of Bernard Touzet, born in 1940 in La Tremblade and died in 2019 in Schœlcher, Martinique, and Henriette Derné. During her teenage years, she lived in Boulogne-sur-Mer[1]. Although her paternal grandmother was from Martinique, she did not discover the West Indies until she was thirty years old[2]. His maternal grandfather is from Puglia, Italy.

Studies and artistic beginnings
Passionate about circus and clowns, she passed her baccalaureate at the age of 16, travelled to Canada and the United States and returned to France where she staged street shows at the same time as studying literature in Aix-en-Provence.

Career
After a few shows, she tried her luck in Paris in 1981, and in 1982 filmed her first television series, Marianne, une étoile pour Napoléon, broadcast daily on Antenne 2.

In 1987, she played in the film La Rumba, by Roger Hanin, where she played her first major role in the cinema.

From 1996 to 2007, she was the heroine of the TF1 series, Une femme d'honneur, in the role of Isabelle Florent, a very sympathetic chief warrant officer and then lieutenant, full of joy and kindness. The pilot episode attracted 12,300,000 viewers. This success marked the beginning of one of the favorite series of the French who elected Corinne Touzet "Best Actress in a TV Movie" in 1997, during the 7 d'Or ceremony.

In 2000, she created her first production company, Corilan' Productions, with a partner.

She produced her first TV movie Et demain Paula, written by Florence Duhamel, while she was one of TF1's successful recurring heroines and then produced eleven TV movies.

In 2004, she produced and starred in Un parfum de Caraïbes. Although the story is not autobiographical, this film is dedicated to his paternal grandmother, who died in 1998[3].

In 2005, she produced her fifth TV movie, L'Enfant de personne, directed by Michaël Perrotta, in which she played an amnesiac woman. In June 2005, she was present at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for Une femme d'honneur.

In 2006, she played in Reunion Island in the summer saga, Les Secrets du volcan, directed by Michaëla Watteaux, broadcast on France 2. She is also launching her new production company Yes productions.

In 2008, she starred in the play Mobile Home, by Sylvain Rougerie, directed by Anne Bourgeois with Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Sylvain Rougerie and Jean-Michel Portal. A return to the stage thanks to a tour in the provinces, Belgium and Switzerland. It publishes and sells two DVD boxes containing the main films it has produced; in March 2009, the sale of DVDs in single version was launched.

In 2010, she returned to TF1 in Interpol. However, she decided to stop this series after the filming of six episodes, the main characters having no private life, nor chance to evolve, which she deeply regretted after being so happy on the series A Woman of Honor.

The years 2011 and 2012 were marked by the play Soif (toured in France and abroad). The first broadcast of his ninth TV production, A Forgotten Crime, took place in October 2012, on France 3. She then played in successful series: in 2016, in the TV movie Murders on Lake Geneva, which is part of the collection Murders at... on France 3, in an episode of Joséphine ange gardien and Camping Paradis on TF1, respectively in 2020 and 2022.

Associative commitments
In 2001, she became the godmother of the association Un Regard, un Enfant, which aims to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds with their schooling, to fight against child poverty and child slavery and to promote citizenship, freedoms, justice and children's rights in the world. She produced and edited a report on the Agadir home in December 2008.

She is a spokesperson for the AFIPA and supports the associations Mécénat Chirurgie cardiaque, Tout le monde chante contre le cancer and Le printemps des animaux (an association whose aim is to support the renovation of the Vincennes zoo).

Since 2014, Corinne Touzet has been a member of the ambassadors' club of the Claude-Pompidou Foundation, which has been helping people made vulnerable by illness, disability and old age since 1970.

Personal life
In 1986, Corinne Touzet was in a relationship with the singer Bernard Lavilliers[4].

She is the mother of a daughter, Jeanne Sieja, born in 1994[5].