Stephanie Slama

Biography

Stephanie Slama is an American actress best known for her roles as Anne Gautier in « L'Affaire SK1 » by award winning director Frédéric Tellier, Julie Fromanger in the series « Falco » on TF1, and Margaret Lafarge in « Lady Liberty » on ARTE. She is also featured in « The Bonfire of Destiny » on Netflix, in the film « Ready to Wear » by Robert Altman, and other speaking roles in major film and television productions, and has played the director of the Louvre in Alexander Sokourov's controversial film « Francofonia » which won the prestigious Federation of Film Critics award at the Venice Film Festival. She has also been a guest presenter on QVC. Her professional training includes a degree in Fine Art from California State University Long Beach, post graduate studies with the New York School of Visual Arts and the Paris Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques / Penninghen, then followed by intensive professional theater training with Actor's Studio founder Lee Strasberg's son John Strasberg, who said she had « large emotional capacities » and encouraged her to follow a career in acting. She also studied with Giovanni Savoia at Insieme Carpe Diem and professional cinema and theater training with Sarah Eigerman at F.A.C.T. In addition to her acting career, she worked as a producer at Art Partner for Mario Testino, Carine Roitfeld, and other big names for Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Face, Dazed and Confused, etc. and then later as Associate European Fashion Editor for Glamour magazine at Condé Nast publications. She is now a professional celebrity photographer herself and had shot many big stars in film, television, and music from around the world.