Alexia Stresi

A novelist, scriptwriter and actress, Alexia Stresi initially started her cinema career with a little role offered to her by Costa-Gavras in order to fund her studies. She studied screenwriting at the Prague Film School, and on the advice of Milos Forman, who she had met in Prague, she went to Columbia University School of Arts in New York. She also studied at the Cours Florent dramatic arts school in Paris, and was an artist-in-residence at the Villa Medicis from 1995 – 1996.

Alongside her acting career, her first great success being her role in the film Trop (peu) d’amour (1998) by Jacques Dillon, she also wrote and co-wrote numerous screenplays. Many of them were made into feature-length films, including Courrier posthume (1996) and Amour fou (1997), both directed by Franck Appréderis, Sans plomb (2000) directed by Muriel Teodori, and The Piano Player (2002) by Jean-Pierre Roux.

She ventured into the world of literature in 2017 with her first novel, Looping, which won the Madame Figaro Prize and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt for a debut novel.