Amanda Sthers

Amanda Queffélec-Maruani (born 18 April 1978), known professionally as Amanda Sthers, is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.

Sthers is of Tunisian Sefardi and Breton origins. She has written ten novels which have been translated in more than 14 countries.[citation needed ]

Her first play, "Le Vieux Juif blonde" is today studied at Harvard University.[citation needed ] Her play "Le Lien" has been performed in Paris and at the Avignon Festival in 2013,[citation needed ] and was widely performed in Italy in 2016.[citation needed ]

Sthers wrote and directed the movie Je vais te manquer in which she directed Carole Bouquet, Michael Lonsdale, and Mélanie Thierry.[citation needed ]

In 2015,[citation needed ] she wrote an adaptation of Les Terres Saintes / Holy Lands, which she later directed in English. Shooting took place during winter 2017 in Israel.[citation needed ]

At the 2017 Zurich Film Festival, Madame, a feature film that she wrote and directed in English was screened, starring Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, and Rossy de Palma.

On 21 September 2004, Sther married singer and actor Patrick Bruel. The two have two children, Oscar and Léon, who was born 28 September 2005. The couple separated in 2007.

Sthers moved to Los Angeles with her two children in 2017 where she started a film production company.