MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
French nationality
Birth October 1, 1988 (Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France)
BIOGRAPHY
Forged by courses and internships which led him to travel between France, Belgium and England, Stéphane began his career on television very early as an extra in the TV films La Maison d’Alexina (1999 ) and Rue Oberkampf (2000). Then, she made numerous furtive appearances in series like The Master of the Zodiac , Commissaire Valence , The Little Murders of Agatha Christie and Borgia .
She also films for the big screen in It’s beautiful in a city at night by Richard Bohringer and Le Temps de la kermesse est finis by Frédéric Chignac . In the road movie Rabat in 2011, she plays a hitchhiker trying to get to Spain. That same year, she played young Janon, the wife of Gérard Lanvin , in the gangster film Les Lyonnais directed by ex-police officer Olivier Marchal .
After a few performances in the detective series RIS Police Scientifique and Cherif in the early 2010s, Stéphane Caillard landed her first major role in the historical series La Vie Avant Elles on France 3. She plays the character of Alma, a young law student who seeks to clear his father’s honor against the Coal Mines who accuse him of being responsible for a mining explosion.
In the cinema, Stéphane acts as a more or less striking second knife in the wine drama Premiers crus (2015), the dramatic comedy Juillet Août (2016), the action film Bastille Day (id.) and Chez nous (2017) , centered on an extremist party in northern France. In the thriller Furie , the actress plays Adama ‘s partner Niane , whose house is squatted by a family.
More present on television, Stéphane plays important roles in the two seasons of Marseille , where she plays Julia, a journalist who is the daughter of the outgoing mayor ( Gérard Depardieu ). She also slips into the skin of a young gendarme recently arrived in Guyana in Maroni and plays one of the protagonists of The War of the Worlds , a SF series adapted from the novel by HG Wells .
In 2023, Stéphane Caillard was chosen to play the navigator Florence Arthaud in the biopic Flo , the first feature film by Géraldine Danon . The director confides: “We had already spoken on the phone and I asked her if I wasn’t bothering her and she told me that she had a 2-year-old little girl, so she had been “on deck” for a while. I saw it as an excellent omen!”
“I tried to bring her everything I knew about Florence and all the colors of her that I wanted to find on the screen. She then worked on her own, drawing on readings, interviews, etc. All this work having been accomplished upstream so then, on the set, things were quite fluid. Stéphane had this tremendous ability to be able to embody Florence from the age of 17 to the end of her life.”
“We used very little prosthetics or makeup, preferring to make his posture, his gait or his voice evolve according to the age of the character.” The actress recalls: I had to be really in shape, not only for the scenes at sea which require real fitness but also to ensure filming which was quite long. This is also the case for Géraldine and the team.”
“I have the impression of a marathon of several months which required rigor and discipline, in the service of the film…”
