Teddy Lussi-Modeste

Writer, Actor, Director

March 25, 1978 (48 years)
Teddy Lussi-Modeste (born 25 March 1978) is a French Romani film director, screenwriter and literature teacher. He wrote and directed the films Jimmy Rivière (2011), The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024).

Lussi-Modeste grew up in La Tronche, Grenoble, in a Sinti, Manush Romani community in France.

Lussi-Modeste studied cinema at the film school La Fémis in Paris. He later became a literature teacher in high schools and colleges, before devoting himself entirely to cinema in the late 2000s.

Lussi-Modeste started his career as a film director in 2004 with the short film Kissing Tigers. In 2011, he released his feature directorial debut, the drama Jimmy Rivière. He later wrote and directed the drama films The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024). Lussi-Modeste also co-wrote the screenplay of Rebecca Zlotowski's 2019 comedy drama film An Easy Girl, and Maïwenn's 2023 historical drama film Jeanne du Barry.

In the 2020s, Lussi-Modeste kept working as a French teacher at a school in Aubervilliers in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, the northeastern suburbs of Paris.

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Known For

  • Jeanne du Barry
    Jeanne du Barry2023
  • An Easy Girl
    An Easy Girl2019
  • The Good Teacher
    The Good Teacher2024
  • The Price of Success
    The Price of Success2017
  • Jimmy Rivière
    Jimmy Rivière2011
  • I'm Coming
    I'm Coming2009

Filmography

2024
The Good Teacher · as Screenplay
2023
2019
2011
Jimmy Rivière · as Screenplay
2009
I'm Coming · as Screenplay

2023
Jeanne du Barry · as Le Médecin La Martinière

2009
C à Vous · as Self
2001
Short circuit · as Self

2017
The Price of Success · as Scenario Writer