Marina Foïs — Movies, TV Shows & Roles

Actor

1970-01-21 · Boulogne-Billancourt, France · Female

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Marina Sylvie Foïs (born 21 January 1970) is a French actress.
Early life and education
Marina Sylvie Foïs was born on 21 January 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. She is of Russian, Jewish Egyptian, German, and Italian ancestry.
Foïs was discovered in 1986 for her comedy work in The School for Wives, at the age of 16. She decided to take classes by correspondence and obtained her high school final exam two years later.
Career
Foïs joined The Royal Imperial Green Rabbit Company, which later became Les Robins des Bois, composed of students from the Cours Florent taught by Isabelle Nanty.
The troupe caught the attention of Dominique Farrugia in 1996 and went on to act and direct in the Comédie+ show La Grosse Émission for two years. During that period, Foïs co-wrote sketches with Pierre-François Martin-Laval, playing a number of various characters, like the dim-witted Sophie Pétoncule and the pedantic director Marie-Mûre. The show continued the next year on Canal+ and had a bigger audience. In June 2001, Foïs and the troupe parted ways to focus on their individual film careers.
On 25 November 2020, it was announced that Foïs would be the host for the 46th César Awards.
Personal life
Marina Foïs has two sisters. Giulia Foïs is a journalist at Libération and a former columnist in the program Arrêt sur images presented by Daniel Schneidermann on France 5, and a current news anchor on I-Télé. Her second sister Elena is a doctor. Their brother, Fabio, died of an airplane crash while participating in an aerobatic demonstration.
Marina was in a partnership with fellow "Robins des Bois" actor Maurice Barthélemy. She also dated Maxime Lefrançois, Mister Univers 2010.
She started dating the director Éric Lartigau in 1999. On 3 December 2004 she gave birth to a boy, Lazare, at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris. They had a second son, Georges, born on 25 September 2008. Since 2025, she disclose being in relationship with actress Zaho de Sagazan, twenty years younger than her.