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Mireille Mathieu
ActorBorn July 22, 1946 (79 years)
Mireille Mathieu (born 22 July 1946), is a French singer. She has recorded over 1200 songs in eleven languages, with more than 122 million records sold worldwide.
Mireille Mathieu was born on 22 July 1946 in Avignon, France, the eldest daughter of a family of fourteen children; the youngest brother was born after she moved to Paris. Her father Roger and his family were native to Avignon, while her mother Marcelle-Sophie (née Poirier) was from Dunkirk. She arrived in Avignon in 1944 as a refugee from World War II after her grandmother had died, and her mother went missing. Roger, with his father Arcade, ran the family stonemason shop just outside the Saint-Véran cemetery main gate. The Mathieu family have been stonemasons for four generations. Today the shop is named Pompes Funèbres Mathieu-Mardoyan, owned and managed by her sister Réjane's family.
The Mathieu family lived in poverty, with a huge improvement in their living conditions in 1954, when subsidized housing was built in the Malpeigné quarter near the cemetery. Then again in 1961 they moved to a large tenement in the Croix des Oiseaux quarter southeast of the city.
Roger had once dreamed of becoming a singer, but his father Arcade disapproved, inspiring him to have one of his children learn to sing with him in church. Mireille included her father's operatic voice on her 1968 Christmas album, where it was mixed in with the Minuit Chrétiens song. Mireille's first paid performance before an audience, at age four, was rewarded with a lollipop when she sang on Christmas Eve 1950 during Midnight Mass. A defining moment was seeing Édith Piaf sing on television.
Mireille performed poorly in elementary school because of dyslexia, requiring an extra year to graduate. She was born left-handed, and her teachers used a ruler to strike her hand each time she was caught writing with it. She became right-handed, although her left hand remains quite animated while singing. She has a fantastic memory, and never uses a prompter on stage. Abandoning higher education, at age 14 (1961), and after moving to Croix des Oiseaux, she began work in a local factory in Montfavet (a suburb southeast of town) where she helped with the family income and paid for her singing lessons. Popular at work, she often sang songs at lunch, or while working. Like her parents, she is a short woman at 1.52 m (5 feet) in height. Her sister Monique, born on 8 July 1947, began work at the same factory a few months later. Both were given bicycles on credit to commute with, making for very long days, and many bad memories of riding against the mistral winds. The factory went out of business, so Mireille and two sisters (Monique, and Christiane) became youth counselors at a summer camp before her rise to fame, a summer where she had her fortune told by Tarot cards by an old Gypsy woman, saying she would soon mingle with kings and queens. ...
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Mireille Mathieu was born on 22 July 1946 in Avignon, France, the eldest daughter of a family of fourteen children; the youngest brother was born after she moved to Paris. Her father Roger and his family were native to Avignon, while her mother Marcelle-Sophie (née Poirier) was from Dunkirk. She arrived in Avignon in 1944 as a refugee from World War II after her grandmother had died, and her mother went missing. Roger, with his father Arcade, ran the family stonemason shop just outside the Saint-Véran cemetery main gate. The Mathieu family have been stonemasons for four generations. Today the shop is named Pompes Funèbres Mathieu-Mardoyan, owned and managed by her sister Réjane's family.
The Mathieu family lived in poverty, with a huge improvement in their living conditions in 1954, when subsidized housing was built in the Malpeigné quarter near the cemetery. Then again in 1961 they moved to a large tenement in the Croix des Oiseaux quarter southeast of the city.
Roger had once dreamed of becoming a singer, but his father Arcade disapproved, inspiring him to have one of his children learn to sing with him in church. Mireille included her father's operatic voice on her 1968 Christmas album, where it was mixed in with the Minuit Chrétiens song. Mireille's first paid performance before an audience, at age four, was rewarded with a lollipop when she sang on Christmas Eve 1950 during Midnight Mass. A defining moment was seeing Édith Piaf sing on television.
Mireille performed poorly in elementary school because of dyslexia, requiring an extra year to graduate. She was born left-handed, and her teachers used a ruler to strike her hand each time she was caught writing with it. She became right-handed, although her left hand remains quite animated while singing. She has a fantastic memory, and never uses a prompter on stage. Abandoning higher education, at age 14 (1961), and after moving to Croix des Oiseaux, she began work in a local factory in Montfavet (a suburb southeast of town) where she helped with the family income and paid for her singing lessons. Popular at work, she often sang songs at lunch, or while working. Like her parents, she is a short woman at 1.52 m (5 feet) in height. Her sister Monique, born on 8 July 1947, began work at the same factory a few months later. Both were given bicycles on credit to commute with, making for very long days, and many bad memories of riding against the mistral winds. The factory went out of business, so Mireille and two sisters (Monique, and Christiane) became youth counselors at a summer camp before her rise to fame, a summer where she had her fortune told by Tarot cards by an old Gypsy woman, saying she would soon mingle with kings and queens. ...
Source: Article "Mireille Mathieu" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Mireille Mathieu Filmography
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | L'Âge d'or de la pub · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Mireille Mathieu - Singen, nur singen · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Michel Sardou, les meilleures chansons · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Mireille Mathieu - Singen, nur singen! · as Self - Subject |
| 2016 | Thierry Le Luron, l'humour de ma vie · as Self |
| 2014 | The Easy Way Out · as Self |
| 2012 | Journal de France · as Self |
| 2012 | Urgant Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | It's Only TV (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | C à Vous (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | 20h10 pétantes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | La méthode Cauet (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Die ultimative Chartshow (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Star Academy (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2000 | L'invité (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2000 | Doing Dallas · as Self |
| 1999 | Beckmann (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | Le plus grand Cabaret du monde (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | Roll on Sunday (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | We Can't Wait for Next Sunday (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | Leute heute (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1988 | Flitterabend (TV Series) · as Self - Singer |
| 1986 | Liberty Weekend · as Self |
| 1986 | ZDF-Fernsehgarten (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | Nöjesmassakern (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | Today (FR) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Na sowas! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysees (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | Reporters · as Self |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? (TV Series) · as Self - Musician |
| 1980 | Verstehen Sie Spaß? (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | Collaroshow (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1977 | On Your Marks, Get Set, Go (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1976 | Baker's Bread · as Self |
| 1976 | César Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1974 | The Grand Prize (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1973 | A Slightly Pregnant Man · as Mireille Mathieu |
| 1973 | Happy New Year · as Self |
| 1972 | Ein Kessel Buntes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Dalli Dalli (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1969 | Peter Alexander presents specialties (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1969 | This is Tom Jones (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1969 | ZDF Hitparade (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | Zhurnalist · as Self |
| 1965 | Die Rudi Carrell Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1965 | Dim Dam Dom (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1964 | Der goldene Schuß (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1964 | Vergißmeinnicht (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1964 | Die Drehscheibe (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1964 | Einer wird gewinnen (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1964 | The Hollywood Palace (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1963 | The Danny Kaye Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1963 | Ready Steady Go! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1959 | Stars in der Manege (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1957 | Zum Blauen Bock (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1955 | Was bin ich? (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) · as Self - Singer |