My Wife Is an Actress

My Wife is an Actress (Ma femme est une actrice) is a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama film starring Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film. The film stars Terence Stamp among others. This film is also highly biographic, as Yvan and Charlotte are a real-life couple since 1991, and have three children. According to Yvan, the idea and a part of the plot originates from real-life events.

Cast

 * Charlotte Gainsbourg as Charlotte
 * Yvan Attal as Yvan
 * Terence Stamp as John
 * Noémie Lvovsky as Nathalie
 * Laurent Bateau as Vincent
 * Keith Allen as David
 * Ludivine Sagnier as Géraldine
 * Lionel Abelanski as Georges
 * Marie Denarnaud as Colette
 * Gilles Lellouche as The policeman
 * Eriq Ebouaney as The Club bouncer

Reception
The film was released on 14 November 2001 in France on 238 screens and opened at number one with a gross of 7 million Francs ($1 million) for the week. It went on to gross $3.4 million in France. It opened on 12 July 2002 in 7 theatres in the United States and grossed $49,204 in the opening weekend and went on to gross $1,121,233. It grossed $5,169,438 worldwide.