MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Performer (songs from the film)
Birth name Karima Mathilda Haïm
French nationality
Birth February 8, 1965 (Paris – France)
BIOGRAPHY
Daughter of the playwright Victor Haïm, Mathilda May initially followed the path traced by her mother, a dance teacher. She practiced this activity from the age of 8, until obtaining the First Prize from the Conservatoire National de Paris in 1983. Spotted by agent Myriam Bru, she then turned towards comedy, landing her first role, that of a princess, in Nemo (1984), adaptation of Winsor McCay ‘s comic strip .
Appearing shortly after Valérie Kaprisky and shortly before Béatrice Dalle , Mathilda May soon established herself as one of the great French sex symbols of the 80s. First employed in comedies ( Les Rois du gag ), she ventured into more troubled worlds thanks to Claude Chabrol , who made her the heroine of Cri du hibou , a performance hailed by a César for Most Promising Actor in 1988. Winner of the Romy-Schneider Prize the following year, she took on La Passerelle opposite Arditi , then sings and dances alongside Montand in Trois places pour le 26 by Demy .
After Chabrol and Demy, it was again a quasi-veteran, Michel Deville , who chose her to embody the object of desire in the obscure All Pains Confused (1992). Bigas Luna is not insensitive to the attractions of the luscious Mathilda May ( The Moon and the Nipple , with Gérard Darmon , then companion of the actress), who continues atypical projects, filmed in Algeria ( Isabelle Eberhardt ) or in Patagonia ( The Cry of the Rock by Herzog ) and lends her voice to Pocahontas in the vf of the famous Disney (1995). Partner of Bruce Willis in The Jackal in 1997, she was little sought after by French filmmakers, and stayed away from the sets for several years. But Claude Chabrol did not forget her, who gave her a role in The Girl Cut in Two (2007), 20 years after Le Cri du hibou .
