Lorraine Lévy

Lorraine Lévy
Lorraine Lévy in 2008
Born	(1964-01-29) 29 January 1964 (age 53) Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Occupation	Screenwriter, film director, playwright, stage director
Years active	1987–present

Lorraine Lévy (born 29 January 1964) is a French screenwriter, film and stage director, and playwright. She is the sister of writer Marc Levy.

After studying literature and law, Lévy became a screenwriter for Jean-Loup Dabadie and René Cleitman while also working as an editor for a publishing house that specializes in art. In 1985, she founded the stage company Compagnie de l'Entracte which staged her first play Finie la comédie (1987). Mostly a screenwriter, she has written screenplays for many telefilms and several episodes of the series Joséphine, ange gardien. In 2004, she made her feature film directorial debut with the comedy film The First Time I Turned Twenty.