Catherine Belkhodja
| Catherine Belkhodja | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 April 1955 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Artist, actress, film director |
| Children | 5 |
Catherine Belkhodja (born 15 April 1955) is a French artist, actress and film director.
On 15 April 1955, Belkhodja was born in Paris, France to an Algerian father and a French mother.
She lived and studied in Algiers where she wrote her first short stories. She went on studying theatre, music and fine arts, took her first steps in the cinema and left for Paris to read architecture, philosophy, town planning and ethnology of the Maghreb.
She graduated in philosophy and began earning her living as a teacher, then reading architecture, specialising in bioclimatics and working in the town planning department of the Paris Prefecture. She later took aesthetics with Olivier Revault d'Allones at the Sorbonne University, prior to leaving for Belgium to further her studies in solar architecture, then for Egypt to work with Hassan Fathy on earth architecture.
Belkhodja's activities range from the cinema and television to conceptual art, as well as journalism, philosophy and writing.
On her return to Paris from Egypt, she enrolled at the Paris Academy of Dramatic Art and took her first steps in the cinema under Claire Devers in "Noir et Blanc" (Black and White), Guy Gilles in "Nuit docile" (Docile night), Jean-Pierre Limosin in "L'autre nuit" (The other night) and Benoît Peeters in "Le compte-rendu" (The Report). She was the central character in Chris Marker's Silent Movie and Level Five.
Belkhodja has collaborated on a number of television programmes, such as Moi-je, Sexy folies, Mosaïque, Envoyé Spécial, Des racines et des ailes, Faut pas rêver, Océaniques.
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