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Claire Barré

Claire Barré is a screenwriter and novelist.

After training as an actress, she turned towards writing and studied two years as a screenwriter at C.E.E.A. Upon finishing the program, she wrote for several television series (TF1, France 2 and Arte). Her screenplay “An Ideal Wife” received the Sopadin prize for Best Screenwriter, opening the world of cinema to her.

She has since worked with numerous directors (Anne Fontaine, Fabienne Berthaud, Audrey Dana, Olivier Ayache-Vidal, Fred Garson.). The first film that she has co-written, “A bigger world” by Fabienne Berthaud, starring Cécile de France, was released starting in 2019. A second one, “Police”, by Anne Fontaine, was being shot at the beginning of 2019.

Claire has published several novels and has been a consultant and screenwriting professor in the University of Nanterre, in C.E.E.A., in Femis, in Brazil, and Colombia.