Ophélie Winter

Ophélie Winter at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

Ophélie Kleerekoper-Winter (born 20 February 1974 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French singer and actress.

Biography

Her father David Alexandre Winter, was a Dutch pop singer during the 1970s, while her mother was a French fashion model, who is now her agent. Her brother Michael is a singer and TV-presenter.

Winter moved to the United States to be close to her father after her parents divorced when she was just 2 years old. It was in the United States that Winter studied dance, singing, music, and acting. At the age of 17, she left for Paris where she lived with her mother and brother. It was there she was discovered by a modeling agent on the Champs-Élysées, and after three years of modeling, she decided to become a singer and an actress. The singer Prince wrote her a song.

She currently resides in Paris making various TV appearances. Her look-alike puppet is in the French show "Les Guignols de l'info" (1988).

Singing career

Her desire to become a singer began after a friend of her father's, who was also a singer, was looking for a young female to join him in a duet. Winter accepted and began recording. She now has released four albums: No Soucy!, which her brother collaborated on, Privacy, Explicit Lyrics and Résurrection.

Discography

• No Soucy ! (1996)
  • Released singles :

"Le feu qui m'attise" ("The Air That I Breathe"); "Dieu m'a donné la foi" ("Living In Me"); "Shame on U"; "Rien que pour lui"; "Keep It on the Red Light" (feat. Coolio)

• Privacy (1998)
  • Released singles : "Je marche à l'envers" ("I Spy"); "Elle pleure" ("Cry"); "Je cours" ("Up Where I Belong"); "Ce que je suis" ("What a Girl Wants")
• Explicit Lyrics (2002)
  • Released singles : "Sache"; "Tout le monde le fait"; "Yeah yeah yeah"
• Résurrection (2009)
  • Released singles : "Affection"; "BB t'es mon sunshine (Sunshine Remix)"

Filmography

• Hommes, Femmes, Mode D'Emploi (Men, Women: A User's Manual) (1996)
• Tout Doit Disparaitre (Everything Must Go) (1997)
• Bouge! (Move!) (1997)
• Folle D'Elle (Crazy About Her) (1999)
• 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
• She (2001)
• Les Jolies Choses (2001)
• Ma Femme Est Une Actrice (2001)
• Mauvais Esprit (Mean Spirit) (2003)

External links

• Official website (in French & English)
• Ophélie Winter at the Internet Movie Database
• Ophélie Winter at Myspace