Cécilia Cara is a French actress and singer.

Biography

Cécilia was born in Cannes

Cannes

Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....

, on the French Riviera

French Riviera

The Côte d'Azur, pronounced , often known in English as the French Riviera , is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, also including the sovereign state of Monaco...

. Before making it big in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, Cécilia was still a 15-year-old attending secondary school. She started learning ballet at the age of 3, and at the age of 5 she began singing in the school choir and soon proved to be very gifted and talented. Thanks to different shows and singing contests, she improved her voice and progressively gained self-confidence.

For two years in a row, she won first prize in a contest in Nice. She became very popular in her region and she soon gained popularity all over France with a TV show launching young artists. She finally came in 4th out of 500 candidates. Around the same time, a new musical was being born in France "Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour

Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour

Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour is a French musical based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, with music and lyrics by Gérard Presgurvic. It premiered in Paris on January 19, 2001. The production was directed and choreographed by Redha, with costumes by Dominique Borg and...

". The TV show's presenter immediately contacted the producers to introduce her. Almost at once, they knew they had found their Juliette

Juliet

Juliet is one of the title characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the other being Romeo. She is the daughter of old Capulet, head of the house of Capulet. The story has a long history that precedes Shakespeare himself....

. Cécilia was 16 when she debuted as Juliette in January 2001.

She can speak French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

.

During her time in "Roméo & Juliette", she recorded duets with French recording artist Florent Pagny

Florent Pagny

Florent Pagny is a French musician. He has also acted in many French films. He records work in French, Italian, Spanish and English, and his greatest hits include "N'importe quoi", "Savoir aimer", "Ma Liberté de penser" and "Caruso" .As of 2008, he has sold 4,268,980 copies of singles,...

 (L’air du Temps), as well as former Boyzone

Boyzone

Boyzone are an Irish boy band comprising Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating,Shane Lynch, and formerly Stephen Gately. Boyzone have 19 singles in the top 40 UK charts and 21 singles in the Ire charts. The group currently have 6 UK number one singles and 9 number one singles in Ireland with 12...

 member Ronan Keating

Ronan Keating

Ronan Patrick John Keating is an Irish recording artist, singer-songwriter, musician, and philanthropist. Keating debuted on the professional music scene alongside Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately, in 1994 as the lead singer of Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999, and...

 (Je T’aime Plus Que Tout).

Since being in "Romeo & Juliette", Cécilia has recorded a duet with fellow "Roméo & Juliette" star, Grégori Baquet, for his album (On se Mesure). She can also be heard doing back-up vocals on Grégori's first single "Donne-moi". In 2003, Cécilia released “Le Dernier Reflet”, the first single off her up-coming album. The next single that is planned to be released is “Dites Lui”. The album release date is still to be determined.

Cécilia is also pursuing her acting career in films. Her first feature role was as Alice in the French movie "Le Carton". She recently finished a movie-short called "Droit au cœur", in which she plays the lead role of a Love Angel named Jasmine who falls in love with a young man on earth. Cécilia was also given the task in 2004 of vocally dubbing the role Christine Daaé

Christine Daaé

Christine Daaé is the main female character in Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera , the young singer with whom the main character Erik, the Phantom of the Opera falls in love.- Character history :...

 for the French cinema release of Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...

's musical "The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)

The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...

".

Recently, Cécilia has been touring France raising awareness for Sclerosis

Sclerosis

Sclerosis or sclerotization is a hardening of tissue and other anatomical features; it may refer to:* in medicine, Sclerosis...

, along with other former "Romeo & Juliette" performers and other well known French performers.

Cécilia Cara will be performing the role of "Sandy" in Grease in Paris starting October 8, 2008.

Filmography

• Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour
  Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour
  Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour is a French musical based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, with music and lyrics by Gérard Presgurvic. It premiered in Paris on January 19, 2001. The production was directed and choreographed by Redha, with costumes by Dominique Borg and...
  
   (Juliette Capulet)
• Le Carton (Alice)
• Droit au cœur (Jasmine)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber's Le Fantôme de L'Opéra (voice of Christine Daaé
  Christine Daaé
  Christine Daaé is the main female character in Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera , the young singer with whom the main character Erik, the Phantom of the Opera falls in love.- Character history :...
  
  )

Albums

• Noël ensemble (Compilation. She sings in “Noël ensemble” and “Ava Maria”)
• Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour (Highlights)
• Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour (L’Integrale)
• Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour (En Live)

Singles

• Aimer
• Les Rois du Monde (B-Side “Un Jour”)
• Vérone (B-Side “L'Amour Heureux”)
• Avoir une Fille (B-Side “La Mort de Juliette”)
• Comment Lui Dire (B-Side “Pourquoi?” live)
• L’air du Temps (Duet with Florent Pagny)
• Je T’aime Plus Que Tout (Duet with Ronan Keating)
• Donne-Moi (Back-up vocals)
• Le Dernier Reflet (B-Side “Et Je Danse”)