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Catherine Belkhodja (born April 15, 1955) is a French artist, actress and film director. Belkhodja was born in Paris to a Kabyle Algerian father and a French mother on 15 April 1955. She lived and studied in Algiers where she wrote her first short stories. She went on studying theatre, music and fine arts, took her first steps in the cinema and left for Paris to read architecture, philosophy, town planning and ethnology of the Maghreb. She graduated in philosophy and began earning her living as a teacher, then read architecture, specialising in bioclimatics and working in the town planning... MORE

Catherine Belkhodja (born April 15, 1955) is a French artist, actress and film director. Belkhodja was born in Paris to a Kabyle Algerian father and a French mother on 15 April 1955. She lived and studied in Algiers where she wrote her first short stories. She went on studying theatre, music and fine arts, took her first steps in the cinema and left for Paris to read architecture, philosophy, town planning and ethnology of the Maghreb. She graduated in philosophy and began earning her living as a teacher, then read architecture, specialising in bioclimatics and working in the town planning department of the Paris Prefecture. She later took aesthetics with Olivier Revault d'Allones at the Sorbonne University, prior to leaving for Belgium to further her studies in solar architecture, then for Egypt to work with Hassan Fathy on earth architecture. Belkhodja’s activities range from the cinema and television to conceptual art, as well as journalism, philosophy and writing. On her return to Paris from Egypt, she enrolled at the Paris Academy of Dramatic Art and took her first steps in the cinema under Claire Devers in "Noir et Blanc" (Black and White), Guy Gilles in "Nuit docile" (Docile LESS