Christiane Jatahy

The offspring of an artistic family, Christiane Jatahy was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1968. As an adolescent, she devoured movies but the Brazilian environment did not favour her professional involvement with filming. After her theatre and journalism graduate studies, she studied Art and Philosophy at a postgraduate level. In 2004, she debuted as a writer and actress, while in 2008, she directed the experimental film "The Absence That Moves Us", which ran in Brazilian cinemas for 10 weeks. Meanwhile, having founded the group Vértice de Teatro, she turned to the classics: Strindberg, Shakespeare and Chekhov.

Her style has been influenced by the interaction of theater and cinema, document and fiction, actor and fictional character. Since 2012, with her "Julia" (an adaptation of Miss Julie), she has attracted the attention of the European public, residing in France where she is by now well known. It is quite indicative that it just took her two years to join the Comédie-Française (2017), where she presented the first part of the "Our Odyssey" diptych, namely "Ithaca", based on Homer’s "Odyssey".