Vanessa Paradis guest of honor at the Lumière Festival

The actress and singer will be honored in Lyon.

The Lyon Lumière Festival is announcing its first names for the 2024 edition, which will take place from October 12 to 20 and will see Isabelle Huppert receive the prestigious Lumière Prize. Vanessa Paradis will be one of the guests of honor, to the great delight of the French public.

A phenomenon of precocity, made famous at the age of 15 with his indescribable “Joe the taxi“, she had her first leading role in the cinema two years later in White Wedding by Jean-Claude Brisseau, another hit, which allowed her to win the César for Most Promising Actress. Leading her musical and cinematographic careers in tandem, Vanessa Paradis navigates from success to success, between her seven Victoire de la Musique awards spread over a quarter of a century and notable roles in numerous French films.

With Patrice Leconte, she shoots one after the other One in two chance in 1998 – the first film to bring together Belmondo and Delon since Borsalino – then the following year The girl on the bridgefor which she was nominated for the César for best actress. In 2010, Vanessa Paradis triumphed with The Heartbreakera comedy with 8 million admissions, where she shared the bill with Romain Duris and François Damiens. Two years later, she played in Flora Cafe the mother of a child with Down syndrome in the 60s, a role acclaimed by critics. Productive, she will have collaborated with some of the biggest names in song (Serge Gainsbourg, Lenny Kravitz, Alain Bashung, Charles Aznavour, Benjamin Biolay…) as well as in cinema (Leconte, Turturro, Dana, Benchettrit…). Jury member of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in 2016, she arrives in Lyon this year preceded by a reputation as a real star, enough to make the festival sublime.