10 Facts About Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School.

Catherine Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sevres, but grew up in Niort.

Catherine Breillat started her career after studying acting at Yves Furet's "Studio d'Entrainement de l'Acteur" in Paris together with her sister, actress Marie-Helene Breillat was born on 2 June 1947 and in 1967.

Catherine Breillat cast the porn actor Rocco Siffredi in her films Romance and Anatomie de l'enfer.

Catherine Breillat made her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris as Mouchette, a dressmaker, alongside her sister Marie-Helene Breillat.

In 2004, Catherine Breillat suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, causing a stroke that paralyzed her left side.

In 2007, Catherine Breillat met notorious conman Christophe Rocancourt, and offered him a leading role in a movie that she was planning to make, based on her own novel Bad Love, and starring Naomi Campbell.

In 2009, a book written by Catherine Breillat was published, in which she alleged that Rocancourt had taken advantage of her diminished mental capacity, as she was still recovering from her stroke.

However, a film adaptation of her book Abus de faiblesse, directed by Catherine Breillat and starring Isabelle Huppert, began production in 2012, and was screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Many of Catherine Breillat's films explore the transition between girlhood and adulthood.