Frédéric Mitterrand

Director & actor · born 21 August 1947 · Paris, France

Frédéric Mitterrand (21 August 1947 – 21 March 2024) was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, and politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Born in Paris, he was the nephew of François Mitterrand (1916–1996), who was the president of France from 1981 to 1995, and the son of engineer Robert Mitterrand (1915–2002) and Édith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, the co-founder of "La Cagoule". Owing to his family heritage, Mitterrand acquired Tunisian citizenship in 1995. He was openly bisexual.

Where to start: Amélie (2001).