Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza (born May 1, 1959, Paris) is a French theater and film actress, playwright and prose writer, whose plays (“God of Massacre”, “Art”) are staged in many theaters in Europe and America. Born in a Jewish family. Her father’s family, from Bukhara Jews of Russian origin (her grandmother was born in Samarkand from her father’s side), fled to France after the October Revolution in 1923; father himself was born in 1918 in Moscow and was an engineer and entrepreneur. Already in France, his father's parents reduced the name Rezaev to Reza. The Second World War found him in Nice, from where he was deported to the concentration camp of Drancy, where he pretended to be a Muslim, thus avoiding further deportation. Mother was a Jewish woman from Budapest, a violinist who left Hungary at the age of twenty after the formation of the Hungarian People's Republic in 1956. She entered the faculty of the Paris Conservatory at the age of 18 from the second time, graduated with honors. The author of plays, film scripts and several novels. In 2010, she shot in her drama “The Spanish Play” (2004) the film “Mother Daughters” with the participation of Carmen Maura, Emmanuelle Seigner and Andre Dussolier. Married, has two children.