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Dayan Jose Biography

French film director, screenwriter and producer. Dayans father, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television director; her grandmother was the owner of a cinema. From 1974 she directed mainly movies for television. In 1979, under her direction, a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir appeared. Her most successful works are the 1998 TV mini-series The Count of Monte Cristo with Gérard Depardieu in the lead role, and the 2002 mini-series Les Misérables with Depardieu and John Malkovich. Then there is Balzac: A Passionate Life (1999) and Cet amour-là (2001), both with Jeanne Moreau, and Raspoutine (2011) with Depardieu. A major success was Les Liaisons dangereuses (miniseries) (2003) with Catherine Deneuve and Nastassja Kinski in the leading roles. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less