Biography
Janine only opens her luggage to take summerdresses out and put walking shoes in. She trades a plane for a train, a train for a bicycle, a bicycle for a rowing boat … She knows train agents as well as her neighbours and airport halls as thourougly as her garden.
She travelled so much being a tropical biologist and an actress, that she feels home in the funniest places, even those without electricity or running water.
She has favourite cafés all over the world for coffee or white earl grey where she loves to write and to dream. Earth is her home.
In love with stories and keen to tell them, she yearns to act in movies all over th world, in many different langages. For the parts she acts, she is happy to take up challenges like singing, dancing, playing the piano, learning romanian, fighting and many more (just come up with them !).
She likes long walks in nature and going through towns. Jazz and opera, but mainly shootings on the other side of the globe where she can get with a rowboat or a bicycle, a bicycle or a train, a train or a plane… as long as she travels, everything’s good.
Janine trained at ‘Les Enfants Terribles’ in Paris, and with the prestigious European ACT (Actors Centre & RADA – London; Stadt Theater Mitte – Berlin; Comédie Française – Paris). Her career began on stage in Paris before getting hired in the french film FLA « semaine de la critique, Cannes 2014 » that opened a door to different film projects in France, Germany, Switzerland and England, mostly as a lead actress.
She loves travelling and her dream is to act in films all over the world, in many different langages.
Janine is multilingual, with excellent French, English, Italian, Swiss German and German, she also has a working use of Spanish and Japanese. This talent for languages gives her the opportunity to work in different countries on a regular basis.
She is also trained in Singing (opera and Jazz) and piano (semi-professional level)
She has a Masters in biology and worked as a tropical biologist in rain forests before she became an actor.
Two years ago, she has created the film production society Inred production and produced eight short films by different directors, with state fundings. She has chosen to produce them because of their social topic. She only produces films that have a social background and give a different point of view on society today. She has chosen to act in a few of the films to support their creation.
SUMMARY OF THE PAST 6 MONTHS
In 2018 Bacha Posh, a film telling the story of an afghan girl raised as a boy in a refugee camp in Calais was featured on Arte. Janine has produced this film because she thought it was giving an insight into an afghan tradition. The film, shot in the refugee camp of Calais two weeks before its destruction, shows the last real images of the camp. Janine also acted a small part in it.
In 2018, she acts in different short films as a lead ; in L’interphone (T.Pradervand, German), she is a jazz singer, in Fortissimo (R. Szotyori, french) a crazy pianist, in I-Art by Alex dos Santos, she plays a mother who has just lost her daughter (english).
She has also written and produced the film Fortissimo for which she has found many state fundings.
This summer, she played the part of four strong women who have influenced the Van Gogh brother’s life by inspiring paintings, or by succeding in making Vincent’s work seen by the world in the play « Van Gogh, si près de la nuit étoilée ».
She also played « in vive la vie » with the company « Interface », a show about joy and life, in which she sings and dances at the festival d’Avignon 2018.
This fall, she starts working on her first feature film as a producer. She is also going to act one of the female lead parts of the film that is a family drama.
On the writing side, she is developping a feature with Francis Reusser, a swiss director.
AWARDS
She has won different awards as an actress, a director, a writer for two film projects she wrote, produced and/or directed « Jusqu’aux étoiles » and Frictions ». The feature Faeryland, by Maga Ettori, in which she has the female lead featuring her as she discovers an animal traffic implying lab experimentations and tries to put everything down, has also been awarded with the price of best film about animal condition. And Bacha Posh has also won two awards yet.
Show Reel
Features and medium length films before 2017
2016 : CLORA, S. Blechmans and D. Carrénard, medium length
SEU DILEMA, S. Blechmans, part of Elena, Donoma Guerilla
CODE 21-012, Max Buhler (MM), main, INRED production
FLA, D.Carrénard and Salomé B., woman with the cigar, Donoma Guerilla prod semaine de la critique Cannes 2014
LE RETOUR, Daniel Torrisi (MM), journées de Soleure
MONSIEUR GAMAGE, Srinath Samarasinghe, the social worker
Short movies before 2017
UN JOUR NOUVEAU, Ruben Pereira, main
AMOUR GIVRE, Thierry Pradervand, main, INRED production
LE MARIAGE DE LEA, Yannick Ramon, main, Lazy prod, (en post prod)
UNTITLED TAPE, Arnaud Bauer
BEAUMARCHAIS, 95 Djinn Carrénard, the shop assistant (main)
LA BELLE ET LE VERTIGE, Maxime Hermet, beauty
SEULE, J. Piguet, Y. Ramon,Tübingen fest, main
MY LOVE, Salem Kali, main
UNE IDEE DE FILM, Farid Ismail, main
LE CITRON VERT, P. Hadjaj festival de Tübingen, main, télé bocal
WEBCAM STORY, A. Jean, J.Piguet short film corner, main
FOLLOW THE STAR, J. Couturier primé au 48h film fest, main
ETRANGE IMPRESSION, B. Amice, festival d’Osnabrück, the secretary
Stage
Before 2017
PREDICTION, by F.Basilio, dir. B. Lousse, Théâtre des deux rêves, Betty (main
CARROUSEL, R. Leeman, espace des Champs Elysées (main)
MELICERTE, by Molière, dir. Veronique Seltz, TNO, Paris,
NI IDOLES, NI ETOILES, by B. Durocher, dir. Patrick Hadjaj, Satan (main)
THE LITTLE PRINCE, A.Roberts, Londron & UK, 200 shows
THE IMAGINARY INVALID, by Molière, dir. Fabrice Eberhard, théâtre de Perpignan, CDI Deauville, Béline (main)
LA JALOUSIE DU BARBOUILLE, F. Eberhard festival de Collioure, Angélique (main)
LE MARIAGE FORCE, Fabrice Eberhard, théâtre de Perpignan, beauty goddess and egyptian girl, songs
L’AMOUR MEDECIN, Fabrice Eberhard, festival de Villandraut, doctor and songs
BONDAGERS, Maxime Leroux, Sue Glover, théâtre des Enfants terribles, Paris, Maggie (main)
LE PERE ANTILLE, François Landolt, Th du Passage, Octogone, Suisse, story teller
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