Claude Lelouch is the father of seven children. And if some are known to the general public, others are more discreet. What do we know about the family of the director of A Man and a Woman?
At 87 years old, Claude Lelouch is not resting on his laurels. His latest film, Eventuallyworn by Kad Merad, has just been released in theaters and he doesn’t plan to stop there! In addition to a prolific career, his family life is also busy! The director is the father of seven children. But what do we know about them?
Claude Lelouch, father of seven children: who are the eldest?
Claude Lelouch is the head of a family of seven children, born from several unions. Some of them are also known to the general public. His eldest son, Simon, the fruit of his former love with his first wife Christine Lelouch-Cochet, followed in his footsteps and is a director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed several award-winning short films at festivals, including Drug scenariosin which we can see, among others, Carla Bruni, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Sylvie Testud. The son of the famous filmmaker has also directed several advertising films.
In 1976, Claude Lelouch became the father of a daughter named Sarah, born from his romance with model Gunilla Friden. The general public was able to discover her from the age of ten when she played in the sequel to the cult film, A man and a woman: Twenty years already, in 1986. She then moved towards a career as a journalist by participating in the production of reports for the show Capital on M6, then to the editorial staff of Chérie FM. After being co-host of the show Fort Boyard with Olivier Minne, she produced several documentaries, notably for the C8 and Cstar channels.
Claude Lelouch: his daughter was raised by Pierre Arditi
Salomé Lelouch, 41, is well known to the general public. Born from the union between Evelyne Bouix and Claude Lelouch, she grew up alongside Pierre Arditi, who became her mother’s companion when she was a child. As for her filmmaker father, he filmed her in her cradle for his film Long live lifewhen she was not yet two weeks old.
The one who was the companion of Gérard Jugnot’s son, Arthur Jugnot, in the early 2000s, appeared in several films and TV films as an actress, but now devotes herself to directing and writing plays. theater.
Then, Claude Lelouch became the father of Shaya, Sabaya and Sachka, born from his former love with the cook and actress Marie-Sophie L. Everyone became more discreet. Sachka has hardly followed in his father’s footsteps since he is an organic breeder in La Manche with his wife, according to Actu.fr. As for the youngest of his daughters, Stella, aged 26, she was born from his marriage to the Franco-Italian actress Alessandra Martines.
Claude Lelouch: “I suffered a lot from my children…”
The octogenarian director is therefore the father of seven children born to five different women. But he would have liked to be a more present father for his family. “I was divorced many times, so it was the mothers who took the children back. The children, when they were little, looked at me with the look of their mothers. They were getting a little revenge. I suffered a lot from my children who looked at me like a bad dad.“, he confided in the documentary Claude Lelouch, Life as in the cinema.
From now on, Claude Lelouch is in a relationship with the novelist Valérie Perrin, who is thirty years younger than him.
