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Frédéric Mitterrand

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

August 21, 1947(76)

Day of Death

March 21, 2024

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Frédéric Mitterrand

Acting

Biography

Frédéric Mitterrand (21 August 1947 – 21 March 2024) was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, and politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. Born in Paris, he was the nephew of François Mitterrand (1916–1996), who was the president of France from 1981 to 1995, and the son of engineer Robert Mitterrand (1915–2002) and Édith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, the co-founder of "La Cagoule". Owing to his family heritage, Mitterrand acquired Tunisian citizenship in 1995. He was openly bisexual. Mitterrand attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris and studied history and geography at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and political science at Sciences Po. He taught economics, history, and geography at EABJM from 1968 to 1971. In 1978, he was a film critic at J'informe. From 1971 to 1986, he ran several art film cinemas in Paris (Olympic Palace, Entrepôt, and Olympic-Entrepôt). He also had roles in a number of films, and in the 1980s was active as a producer and director in TV productions.[citation needed] Mitterrand also penned a monthly column for Têtu. In June 2008, Mitterrand was appointed the director of the French Academy in Rome by President Nicolas Sarkozy, and was appointed to the French government a year later as the Minister of Culture and Communications, a role he would hold for the remainder of Sarkozy's time in office. Mitterrand's novel The Bad Life (French: La m…

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Filmography