Karole Rocher

About Karole Rocher

Karole Rocher (born July 4, 1974 in Bezons) is a French actress, director and screenwriter.

Karole Rocher grew up in Sartrouville in a working-class environment.
Of Corsican origin on her mother's side, she has a strong link with the Isle of Beauty where she spent all her summers with her grandparents as a child and teenager.

At the age of 17, she was forced to leave the family home.
She then worked as a waitress in a café.

In 1995, she was spotted in the street by costume designer Gigi Lepage.
Through him, she appeared in the video for Princess Erika directed in La Ciotat by Olivier Dahan, Faut qu'j'travail, with the debutant Romain Duris.

Beginnings and revelation
Noticed by Olivier Dahan for this video, Karole Rocher was then given her first role by the Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb in L'honneur de ma famille, with Roschdy Zem.

She met director Sylvie Verheyde in 1997, who led her to make her film debut in her first film, A Brother, in which she played a young girl desperately attached to her first love.
She plays with Emma de Caunes and Jeannick Gravelines.

In 2000, she continued her career by starring in the drama film Save Me by Christian Vincent, where she reunited with actor Roschdy Zem. The same year, Sylvie Verheyde offered him another role in her film Princesses, a dramatic comedy produced by Cédric Klapisch and Bruno Levy.

In 2001, she was seen in front of Anne Fontaine's camera in Comment j'ai tué mon père alongside Charles Berling and Michel Bouquet, then she appeared, two years later, in Adieu by Arnaud des Pallières, with Michael Lonsdale.

After collaborating with Julien Seri in Scorpion, in 2007, followed a third collaboration with Sylvie Verheyde in Stella.
The same year, she also appeared in a music video by French singer Benjamin Biolay, Dans ta bouche, directed by Laetitia Masson.

Karole Rocher at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
The year 2009 marked a turning point. First, Maïwenn offered Karole Rocher to play a fictional version of herself in the highly acclaimed Bal des actrices, in which she collaborated with a panel of French actresses such as Karin Viard, Jeanne Balibar, Romane Bohringer, Julie Depardieu and Marina Foïs.
Then on television, she played the main female character in the acclaimed Canal + police series, Braquo, whose inaugural season was supervised by Olivier Marchal and Frédéric Schoendoerffer. The program will have several seasons, which will allow him to develop the role of Lieutenant Roxane Delgado, in the company of Jean-Hugues Anglade, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Joseph Malerba.

The success of the series allowed him to make a series of films. In 2011, she was part of the four-star cast assembled by Thierry Klifa for the drama Les Yeux de sa mère.
She played one of the supporting roles in Robert Guédiguian's new gang film, Les Neiges du Kilimanjaro, and took part in the thriller Dernière Séance, by Laurent Achard.
Finally, she reunited with Maïwenn for the acclaimed drama Polisse, a film that was a great critical and public success, where her performance earned her a nomination for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress.

From then on, she only made one film a year, but in lighter and lighter registers.
In 2012, she reunited with Sylvie Verheyde who gave her a supporting role in the historical drama Confession of a Child of the Century.
In 2013, she appeared in the comedy-drama Tip Top, by Serge Bozon.
In 2014, she directed the comedy-drama Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles, by Cécile Telerman, and the satire Fastlife, written, directed and performed by her partner Thomas Ngijol.

Personal life
Karole Rocher is the mother of four daughters, Barbara Biancardini (1996), Gina Jimenez (2001) born from her relationship with director Cédric Jimenez, finally Angelina (2014) and Carmen (2017), from her relationship with actor and comedian Thomas Ngijol.

She is very close to actors Nicolas Duvauchelle, whom she met on the set of the series Braquo in 2009, and JoeyStarr, with whom she starred in Le Bal des actrices and starred in her music video Jour de sortie.
The three actors also starred in Maïwenn's film Polisse in 2011.