Amira Casar Biography: Age, Height, Net Worth, Parents, Movies & TV Shows, Husband

Amira Casar is a British-French actress known for her work in European and international cinema. She received a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actress for her role in La Vérité si je mens! (1997) and has appeared in films including Call Me by Your Name (2017), Anatomy of Hell (2004), Curiosa (2019), and The Contractor (2022).

Fluent in multiple languages and trained at the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique in Paris, she has built a diverse career spanning film, television, and theatre.

Amira Casar
Wiki Facts & About Data
Name:	Amira Casar
Born:	1 May 1971 (age 55 years old)
Place of Birth:	London, United Kingdom
Nationality:	British-French
Height:	1.67 m
Parents:	Mr. and Mrs. Casar
Siblings:	2
Occupation:	Actress
Net Worth:	$2 million

Early Life and Education

Amira Casar was born on 1 May 1971 in London, United Kingdom, to parents referred to as Mr. and Mrs. Casar, a Kurdish father and a Russian opera singer mother.

She has at least 2 sisters, though their names and exact number of them are unknown. Raised between England, Ireland, and France, she studied drama at the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique de Paris from 1991 to 1994 after earlier training at the Cours Florent. She is of Kurdish and Russian heritage and her religion is Christianity.

Career

Amira Casar began her professional path as a teenager when she was discovered by photographer Helmut Newton and worked as a model for Chanel and Jean-Paul Gaultier. She made her screen debut in the 1989 film Erreur de jeunesse and trained intensively in theatre.

Her breakthrough came with the role of Sandra Benzakhem in La Vérité si je mens! (1997), earning a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actress; she later reprised the character in the film’s sequels.

Throughout the 2000s she took on a wide range of roles in French and international cinema, including Myriem in How I Killed My Father (2001), Assia Wevill in Sylvia (2003), the lead in Catherine Breillat‘s Anatomy of Hell (2004), and Eva in To Paint or Make Love (2005), which competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

She continued with work in Saint Laurent (2014), At Eternity’s Gate (2018), and the television series Versailles. Her performance as Dora Maar in the television film La femme qui pleure au chapeau rouge brought her a Best Actress award at the La Rochelle Television Film Festival.

In later years Casar expanded her international profile with the role of Annella Perlman in Luca Guadagnino‘s Call Me by Your Name (2017), followed by appearances in Curiosa (2019), Sisters in Arms (2019), The Contractor (2022) opposite Chris Pine, and as Edith Frank in the miniseries A Small Light (2023).

She has remained active in theatre, narration, and recent projects including Honeyjoon and The Divine Sarah Bernhardt, maintaining a reputation for intelligent, versatile performances across languages and genres.

Social Media

• Instagram Handle: @amiracasar

Personal Life

Amira Casar has kept her personal life largely private. She has not been publicly married and has stated that she chose not to have children, preferring to focus on her career and other forms of transmission through her work and charitable involvement.

Filmography

• Erreur de jeunesse (1989)
• La Vérité si je mens! (1997)
• Why Not Me? (1999)
• How I Killed My Father (2001)
• Sylvia (2003)
• Anatomy of Hell (2004)
• To Paint or Make Love (2005)
• Saint Laurent (2014)
• Call Me by Your Name (2017)
• At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
• Curiosa (2019)
• Sisters in Arms (2019)
• The Contractor (2022)
• A Small Light (2023)
• The Divine Sarah Bernhardt (2024)

Net Worth

Amira Casar has an estimated net worth of approximately $2 million. Her wealth has been built through a long career in European and international film and television, theatre work, modelling earlier in her life, and residual income from projects spanning more than three decades, including high-profile roles in both French cinema and English-language productions.

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