Romane Bohringer

About Romane Bohringer

Romane is a French actress, active in film, television and theatre.

Romane Bohringer (born August 14, 1973 in Pont-Sainte-Maxence) is a French actress and director. She is the daughter of Richard Bohringer.

Biography
Childhood and early life
Romane Bohringer was born on August 14, 1973 in Pont-Sainte-Maxence, in the Oise region. Her mother — Marguerite Bourry, known as Maggy Bohringer, born in Saigon to a Corsican father and a Vietnamese mother — abandoned home when she was nine months old: Romane grew up in Deuil-la-Barre with her father Richard[1], whom she accompanies on film sets. His paternal grandfather, originally from the Baden-Württemberg region, was an officer in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. She then imagined herself becoming a scriptwriter or a camerawoman[2].

At the age of 13, she made her acting debut alongside her father in the film Kamikaze. She revealed herself in the theatre by playing the character of Miranda in Shakespeare's The Tempest, with Kên Higelin as her partner, in a staging by Peter Brook[2].

Career

Romane Bohringer, at the 18th César Awards ceremony, in 1993.
In 1992, Romane Bohringer was consecrated by the film Les Nuits fauves by and with Cyril Collard, which earned her the César for Best Female Newcomer and the Georges de Beauregard Prize. Since then, she has appeared on the big screen in Claude Miller's L'Accompagnatrice, Martine Dugowson's Mina Tannenbaum (1994), Agnieszka Holland's Rimbaud Verlaine (Total Eclipse) (1995), Gilles Mimouni's L'Appartement (1996).

In 2003, she was in Our Darling Children by Benoît Cohen.

In 2006, she appeared in C'est beau une ville la nuit by her father Richard Bohringer, based on his own book of the same name (1988).

In 2009, she played herself in the mockumentary Le Bal des actrices by Maïwenn.

In 2017, for France 3, she played the role of politician Arlette Laguiller in Alain Tasma's Le Viol, adapted from the book Et le viol devenir un crime by Jean-Yves Le Naour and Catherine Valenti, about the Tonglet-Castellano affair taking place in 1974.

In 2018, she presented her first feature film L'Amour flou, co-directed with Philippe Rebbot, whose story is based on their personal experience: having indeed broken up romantically, the couple continues to live with their children, under the same roof, but in two separate spaces[3].

In 2020, she played the role of Victoria Deshotel in They Were Ten, a miniseries adapted from Agatha Christie's novel They Were Ten (1939)[4].

Personal life
In 2004, Romane Bohringer met the actor and screenwriter Philippe Rebbot on the set of the TV movie Le Triporteur de Belleville where he was assistant stage manager[5]. On December 26, 2008, she gave birth to her first child, a baby girl named Rose[6], and on August 2, 2011, to a boy Raoul[7].

Although the couple has broken up, the parents live with their children under the same roof, in two separate spaces, a "separation", in Montreuil in Seine-Saint-Denis. This story inspired them to make the film L'Amour flou[3] (2018). The resulting recognition allowed them to extend the film with a series of the same title in 2021[8].

Commitments
Social

Romane Bohringer greeting the audience on the stage of the Théâtre de l'Atelier after a performance of the musical Le Bel Indifferent, in November 2023.
In 2023, she supported the movement against the pension project with a text addressed to the head of state[9] to demand the immediate withdrawal of the project, considered "unfair, ineffective, hitting the most precarious and women hardest", in addition to being rejected "by the vast majority of the population, and even a minority in the National Assembly"[9]. The text highlights the duty of solidarity[9] in the face of a reform that "will hit hardest those who work in the most difficult jobs"[9].

On December 19, 2018, more than 70 celebrities mobilized at the call of the association Urgence Homophobie. Bohringer is one of them and appears in the music video for the song De l'amour[10],[11],[12].

Policy
In April 2022, she signed an op-ed[13] calling for a vote for Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2022 French presidential election.

Culture
In 2012, during the call for projects organized by La Collection de Canal +, Romane Bohringer and her father Richard Bohringer chose, among all the applications sent to them, the project of Lou Bohringer, also the actor's daughter, and who had never made a film. This choice provoked an outcry among the participants and acerbic articles in several media[14],[15],[16].