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Teddy Lussi-Modeste

Writer, Actor, Director, Additional CreditsBorn March 25, 1978 (48 years)
Teddy Lussi-Modeste (born 25 March 1978) is a French Romani film director, screenwriter and literature teacher. He wrote and directed the films Jimmy Rivière (2011), The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024).

Lussi-Modeste grew up in La Tronche, Grenoble, in a Sinti, Manush Romani community in France.

Lussi-Modeste studied cinema at the film school La Fémis in Paris. He later became a literature teacher in high schools and colleges, before devoting himself entirely to cinema in the late 2000s.

Lussi-Modeste started his career as a film director in 2004 with the short film Kissing Tigers. In 2011, he released his feature directorial debut, the drama Jimmy Rivière. He later wrote and directed the drama films The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024). Lussi-Modeste also co-wrote the screenplay of Rebecca Zlotowski's 2019 comedy drama film An Easy Girl, and Maïwenn's 2023 historical drama film Jeanne du Barry.

In the 2020s, Lussi-Modeste kept working as a French teacher at a school in Aubervilliers in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, the northeastern suburbs of Paris.

Source: Article "Teddy Lussi-Modeste" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For

  • Jeanne du Barry
  • An Easy Girl
  • The Good Teacher
  • The Price of Success
  • Jimmy Rivière
  • I'm Coming

Filmography

2024
The Good Teacher · as Screenplay
2023
2019
2011
Jimmy Rivière · as Screenplay
2009
I'm Coming · as Screenplay

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