Elsa Lunghini

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Known For

Acting

Born

1973-05-20

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Elsa Lunghini

Biography

Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa (born 20 May 1973), is a French singer and actress. She was a teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French charts, with the single "T'en va pas", and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade. Elsa, her album of 1988, had achieved double-platinum status by 1993. Daughter of George Lunghini (actor, photographer and songwriter) and Christiane Jobert (painter and also sister of actress Marlène Jobert and Charles Jobert, a camera operator and director of photography), she is of Italian origin on her father's side, and of Sephardic Jewish origin on her mother's side. She is a cousin of actresses Eva Green and Josephine Jobert. Lunghini first performed in a movie at age seven, in 1981, in Claude Miller's Garde à vue (also starring Romy Schneider). She was the youngest artist to be in the main program at the Olympia (Paris), at 17, in October 1990 as well as the youngest to have a number 1 hit in the Top 50 in France. At 13, in 1986, she remained number 1 for eight weeks with "T'en va pas" (soundtrack of the movie La Femme de ma vie). The song was composed by the Italian Romano Musumarra, who had worked and helped produce hits for 1980s singer Jeanne Mas. The song was a hit in France and sold elsewhere in Europe with an English recording. With the help of her musician father, she recorded her LP Elsa. It sold more than 600,000 copies with hit singles such as "Quelque chose dans mon cœur" ("Something in my heart"), "Jour de neige" ("Snowing day"), "Jamais nous" (with backing vocals by French singer Laurent Voulzy) ("Never us"), "Un Roman d'amitié" (duet with Glenn Medeiros) ("Friend you give me a Reason"), "À la même heure dans deux ans" ("At the same time in two years"). All were top 10 hits. At that time, Lunghini was the only artist to have her first four singles at number one or two. She became popular in the teen press, often compared with Vanessa Paradis. In 1990, she made her second album, Rien que pour ça ("Only for that"). The songs were produced by her father and Elsa wrote the music for the single of the same name. "Rien que pour ça" was a top 20 hit. Two other excerpts were released: "Pleure doucement" ("Cry softly") and "Qu'est-ce que ça peut lui faire" ("How does she matter"). In 1992, Lunghini recorded "Bouscule-moi" ("Push me on"), a mid-rock single with more adult lyrics. "Bouscule-moi" was a hit single. Her third album was Douce violence ("Sweet violence"). In 1996, aged 23, she wrote and composed her fourth album, Chaque jour est un long chemin (Every day is a long way). It sold 20,000. From 20 to 24 September 2004, she gave shows in Paris at the Européen. A live DVD and a live CD went on sale in 2006. She has starred in two TV movies: 2002's La mort est rousse and 2004's Trois jours en juin and is involved in a television advertising campaign for Danone yoghurt. Source: Article "Elsa Lunghini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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Acting History

2025
Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés as Self (archive footage)
2024
Meurtres à Château-Thierry as Laetitia Alfonsi
2023
Je suis né à 17 ans as Laurence
2023
Six Women as Eve
2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
2020
Ici tout commence as Clotilde Armand
2019
Murder in Saint Omer as Olivia Sysman
2018
Her Word Against His as Laura
2016
Mon frère bien-aimé as Barbara Bellefond
2014
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2013
Murders in... as Astrid d'Armentière
2013
Murders in... as Capitaine Laetitia Alfonsi
2013
Poor Richard! as Amel
2011
Block 66 as Hani
2011
The Nights of Alice as Alice
2009
Aveugle mais pas trop as Emma
2008
Où es-tu ? as Suzanne
2008
Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés
2005
Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
2005
Trois jours en juin as Sylvie
2002
Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau
2001
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
2000
Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000
1999
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
1998
Vivement dimanche as Self
1998
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
1997
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
1992
Coucou c'est nous ! as Self
1992
The Return of Casanova as Marcolina
1990
Stars 90 as Self
1989
Elsa sous la neige as Self
1987
Le monde est à vous as Self
1987
Sacrée Soirée as Self
1987
Sacrée Soirée as Self (archive footage)
1987
Nulle part ailleurs as Self
1987
Où que tu sois as Anne
1986
The Woman of My Life as Eloïse
1985
Red Kiss as Rosa
1982
Champs-Elysées as Self
1981
The Inquisitor as Camille
1977
Fan School as Self
1972
Le Grand Échiquier as Self