List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Michel Piccoli
Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide variety of roles and worked with many acclaimed directors, being awarded with a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival.
Lambert Wilson
Lambert Wilson is a French actor, singer and activist. He is best known internationally for his portrayal of The Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
Michel Friedman
Julien Michel Friedman is a German lawyer, former CDU politician and talk show host. From 2000 to 2003 Friedman was vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and president of the European Jewish Congress from 2001 to 2003. From 1998 to 2003 he had his own show on German television. Since 2004 he has been hosting a weekly talk show on N24 called Studio Friedman. Friedman is a lawyer by profession and studied law and philosophy.
Marie Drucker
Marie Drucker is a French journalist, author, television and radio personality.
Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Having good memory and following his dad's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusionned by the hospital life. He started his career as a stand-up comedian. In February 1998, his film Bernie took the Grand Prize at the 9th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival which was attended by Dupontel.
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Jean-Pierre Marielle was a French actor. He appeared in more than a hundred films in which he played very diverse roles, from a banal citizen, to a serial killer, to a World War II hero, to a compromised spy, to a has-been actor, to his portrayal of Jacques Saunière in The Da Vinci Code. He was well known for his distinctive cavernous voice, which is often imitated by French humorists who considered him to be archetypical of the French gentleman.
Nora Arnezeder
Nora Arnezeder is a French actress and singer.
Audrey Crespo-Mara
Audrey Crespo-Mara is a French journalist and television presenter.
Garra Dembélé
Garra Dembélé is a French-born Malian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Frédéric Bourdin
Frédéric Pierre Bourdin is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon". He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500 false identities, three of which have been of actual teenage missing people.