Françoise Dorner

Françoise Dorner (born 17 June 1949, Paris) is a French actress, screenwriter, author of plays and novels.

She appeared for the first time in the cinema thanks to Éric Le Hung who entrusted her in 1975 one of the main roles of Raging Fists along Philippe Lavot (), Marie-Georges Pascal and Tony Gatlif, also author of the script. She can be seen in 1981 in Haute surveillance by Pierre-Alain Jolivet () then in 1984 next to Pierre Richard in The twin. Finally, in 1992 she played in Les amies de ma femme by Didier Van Cauwelaert with Michel Leeb (), Christine Boisson and Catherine Arditi ().

Although her film career remains quite modest, Françoise Dorner, has been very present on the small screen since the late 1960s. She was the star of several TV movies and embodied in particular La Petite Fadette in 1978. In 1985, she interpreted the commissioner Françoise Valence in the series "Madame et ses flics". The television also gave her in 1996, the possibility of adapting one of her plays, Le Parfum de Jeannette.

Her plays L'Hirondelle and Le Parfum de Jeannette, cowritten with Jean-Claude Carrière, earned her the Prix du Jeune Théâtre Béatrix Dussane-André Roussin. In 2004, she was awarded the Prix Goncourt du premier roman for La Fille du rang derrière (), critically acclaimed in France but also in the United States. In 2006 La Douceur assassine obtained the Prix Émile Augier bestowed by the Académie française and in 2011, she received the Prix Roger-Nimier for Tartelettes, jarretelles et bigorneaux.

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