Mimie Mathy
Actor
- Born
- July 8, 1957 (age 69) · Lyon, Rhône, France
Mimie Mathy (8 July 1957) is a French actress, comedian and singer who is best known for her starring role in the long-running Josephine, Guardian Angel television series. Mathy has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, and is 4 ft 4 in (1.32 m) tall.
Interested in the theatre from childhood, she studied the dramatic arts from 1979 to 1981 at Michel Fugain's workshop in Nice. In the early 1980s she performed in a number of theatre roles and appeared in Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard television show. She formed a touring comedy troupe "Le Trio des Filles" (The Three Girls) which performed shows such as Existe en trois tailles (Available in Three Sizes) from 1988 to 1993. In 1993 she performed in the TV movie Une nounou pas comme les autres (A Nanny Like No Other), which garnered a 52.7% market share (~12 million viewers) in France.
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Since 1994 she has performed 15 times in the annual Les Enfoirés (The Tossers) charity concert for Restaurants du Cœur (Restaurants of the Heart). Les Enfoirés was the most watched TV show in France in 2009, with 12.3 million viewers.
In 1997 she began her title role in Josephine, Guardian Angel, a TF1 TV Series really popular in France.
In 2006 she issued a music CD, La Vie M'a Raconte (Life Told Me) produced by Patrick Fiori.
On 27 August 2005 she married 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) restaurateur and chef Benoist Gérard, a man she met during one of her shows by picking him out of the audience.
Since May 2009, Mimie Mathy is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.[5]
Source: Article "Mimie Mathy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
I Love You Coiffure
December 21, 2020
3 Filles en cavale
February 7, 2011
La Bonne Copine
November 23, 2005
Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés
March 13, 2015
Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
March 3, 2017
Family Pack
July 4, 2001
Les Enfoirés 2011 - Dans l'oeil des Enfoirés
March 11, 2011
Murder In Saint Paul de Vence
January 13, 2018
Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés
March 6, 2020
Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
March 11, 2016
Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés
March 14, 2014
Le Prix de la trahison
January 15, 2022
Acting52
- 2026La Classe, les plus grands sketchs as Self : Student (archive footage)
- 2025Panique au grand magasin
- 2025Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés as Self (archive footage)
- 2025Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés
- 2025Les mille et une vies de Philippe Bouvard as Self
- 2023Mimie Mathy : Grandeur Nature as Self
- 2023Les Enfoirés 2023 - Enfoirés un jour, toujours
- 2022Drôles de familles as Self
- 2022Le Prix de la trahison as Capitaine Marie Jourdan
- 2021Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous