Cécile Bois (born 1971) is a French TV, stage, and film actress. She came to national attention when she was cast, aged 24, in the title role of Robert Hossein's play Angélique, Marquise des Anges. In recent years, she is most known for her turn in the title role on the French TV crime drama, Candice Renoir.
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Early life and education
Cécile Bois was born in Talence and grew up in Lormont, Bassens, and Bordeaux. Her father was a teacher and her mother worked as an adviser for the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and Bois has a younger sister.
Bois wanted to be an actress since the age of 4. While at school Bois joined an amateur theatre troupe. The following year she entered the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, which she subsequently left to join another theatre group named "Le théâtre en vrac".
At age 19 Bois moved to Paris and began training at l'École de la rue Blanche. It was during this time that she met her future agent Chafika.
Career
Bois came to national attention playing Angélique in Robert Hossein's 1995 play Angélique, Marquise des Anges, based on the novels by Anne Golon. She performed the role in 130 appearances at the Palais des Sports.
Bois has starred in films such as Germinal, Dakan, Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments, Lucky Punch, le montreur de boxe, and Le roi danse, but she is best known for her television roles. She starred as Agnes in the TV series Navarro, as the female lead in the 2007 TV film Agatha contre Agatha. and alongside Bruno Wolkowitch and Florence Pernel in the 2010 television film Le Désamour, which was directed by Daniel Janneau for France 3.
Bois is best known for playing the title role in the France 2 detective drama-comedy series Candice Renoir, which aired from 2013 to 2023.
Bois also played the lead role in the television drama series Gloria, a French remake of the 2017 Welsh series Keeping Faith, released on 17 February 2022. In 2025 she started starring in the new France 2 TV comedy drama Made in France.
Personal life
Since 2016 Bois has been in a relationship with fellow actor Jean-Pierre Michaël, with whom she has two daughters.
Filmography
Cinéma
1992: Promenades d'été
1993: Germinal
1993: La Place d'un autre
1995: Lucky Punch, le montreur de boxe
1996: Dakan
1998: Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments
2000: Le roi danse
2000: Le Roman de Lulu
2001: La Grande Vie !
2004: Les Mots bleus
2005: Une belle histoire
2009: Trésor
2023 : Like a Prince
Television
1993: Le Chasseur de la nuit
1995: Navarro
1995: Fils de flic
1996: Les Alsaciens ou les Deux Mathilde
1997: Une soupe aux herbes sauvages
1997: La Maison d'Alexina
1998: La Femme de l'Italien
1998: Les monos (1 episode)
2000: Maigret as Miss Vague (1 episode)
2001: Résurrection
2001: Mathieu Corot as Diane (1 episode)
2002: Femmes de loi as Vanessa (1 episode)
2003: Une place parmi les vivants as Sabine
2003: Je serai toujours près de toi as Guilaine
2003: Joséphine, ange gardien as Sandrine (2 episode)
2004: Ariane Ferry as Ariane Ferry
2005: Sauveur Giordano as Caroline Lucas (1 episode)
2005: Une famille formidable as Marie-Sophie (1 episode)
2006: Agathe contre Agathe as Agathe Verdier
2006: Tombé du ciel as Florence
2006: Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse as Maître Chantal Jacquemin
Stage
1990: Zapping, solitude, parloir
1991: Volpon
1995: Angélique, marquise des anges
2001: La Souricière d'Agatha Christie
2008: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon