Aleksandra Fontaine (born Aleksandra Kędzierska on (1984-04-13) April 13, 1984 (age 40)) is a Polish-French dancer and actress.[1][2][3] She is also a novelist.[4]
Life and career
Early life
Fontaine grew up in Gdynia, Poland.[5] She started dancing at the age of nine at the National Ballet School in Gdańsk. At sixteen, she left her parents and Poland to study neo-classical dance, choreography, and theater at the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama and Dance in Austria.[1]
Dancing
Fontaine's first professional dance engagement was with the It Dansa company in Barcelona, Spain, in 2003.[2] The same year, she became a Bluebell Girls dancer,[6] joining the Lido cabaret in Paris,[7] She appeared several times in Patrick Sébastien's show Le Plus Grand Cabaret du monde on France 2.[1]
Fontaine appeared in documentaries in Poland (We are from Poland on TVP Polonia) and France (Sept à huit on TF1) on 18 March 2012,[8]
Choreographer and producer
In 2015, Fontaine founded a production company, Fontaine Media, to produce her own shows, with the first one, the revue Le Rêve (Dream), presented in July 2015 in Kraków, Poland, at the Variété Theatre.[9] In 2016, she presented the Theatre-Revue Show first in Singapore and then in Gdańsk.[10]
Actress and body double
In 2010, she played the role of Indra in the film White as Snow by Christophe Blanc.[citation needed] She appeared in the short film Job Interview by Pauline Caballero in 2016. She next played a teacher in L'Atelier de l'ange (Angel's Workshop) by Pierre Laffargue. In 2017, she appeared in the film HHhH by Cédric Jimenez.[citation needed]
Fontaine served as body double for actresses such as Margaret Qualley, in The Substance, or Sandrine Kiberlain.[11]
On 17 March 2018, she directed and played the role of Lidia in the adaptation of her novel La Fille à la valise (The Girl with the Suitcase)[12] at the Municipal Theatre of Perpignan, France.[13]
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