Anaïs Tellenne

Anaïs Tellenne was born on May 17, 1987, in Paris. She is the daughter of actors and directors Marc Tellenne, known as Karl Zéro, and Anne-Laure Tellenne, also known as Daisy d’Errata.

She trained as a dancer and actress.^[2]

She began her career as a film and television actress, as well as a theater performer.^[3]

After working as an actress, she directed her first short film, 19 Juin, which aired on France 2. She co-directed her second short film with Zoran Boukherma.^[4]

In 2020, she co-wrote the feature film L'Engloutie with Louise Hémon, which received the Beaumarchais writing grant and the Screenplay Award.^[5]

At 36 years old in 2023, she directed her first feature film, L'Homme d'argile^[6] · .^[7] The film "reimagines the myth of Pygmalion in a manor in Morvan" with Emmanuelle Devos and her muse Raphaël Thiéry.^[8] The film was nominated at the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2023.^[9]

In 2024, she directed the film Les indépendants in the United States, a biopic about Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt.^[10]

She is married to film composer Amaury Chabauty.

• Les Fourberies de Scapin by Molière, as Zerbinette, directed by Karl Eberhard, touring France on tréteaux.
• The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, as Paulina, directed by Claire Prévost, at Théâtre de l'Épouvantail.
• Le Cabaret volant by Roch-Antoine Albaladejo, as Irma, at Lucernaire.
• Cat in the Bag by Georges Feydeau, directed by Christophe Barratier, at Théâtre national de Nice (2009).^[11]

• C'est au 5e, a comedy by Anne Vantal, performed at Théâtre des Funambules in Montmartre, Paris, and at the Avignon Festival at Théâtre du Buffon.