Early life

Winter was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine. Her father David Alexandre Winter was a Dutch pop singer who had some success during the 1970s, while her mother Catherine Fefeu was a French fashion model, who is now her agent. Her brother Michael is a singer and TV-presenter.

Her parents divorced when she was just 2 years old, and she moved to Paris with her mother and brother while her father left for the United States. In 1984, at the age of 10 years, she recorded her first song in France, La Chanson des Klaxons, and 3 years later another song, Poil de Carotte, in French. At the age of 17, she was discovered by a modeling agent on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, and after three years of modeling, she decided to become a singer and an actress.

Career

Ophélie Winter has released four albums: No Soucy!, which her brother collaborated on, Privacy, Explicit Lyrics and Résurrection. The singer Prince wrote her a song.

In late 2014 she became a contestant on the fifth season of TF1's Danse avec les Stars.

She currently resides in Paris making various TV appearances. Her look-alike puppet is in the French show "Les Guignols de l'info" (1988).

Discography

• No Soucy ! (1996)
  • Released singles: "Le feu qui m'attise" ("The Air That I Breathe"); "Dieu m'a donné la foi" ("Living In Me"); "Shame on U"; "Rien que pour lui"; "Keep It on the Red Light" (feat. Coolio)
• Privacy (1998)
  • Released singles: "Je marche à l'envers" ("I Spy"); "Elle pleure" ("Cry"); "Je cours" ("Up Where I Belong"); "Ce que je suis" ("What a Girl Wants")
• Explicit Lyrics (2002)
  • Released singles: "Sache"; "Tout le monde le fait"; "Yeah yeah yeah"
• Résurrection (2009)
  • Released singles : "Affection"; "BB t'es mon sunshine (Sunshine Remix)"

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1996	Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi	Pretty Blonde of Crillon	Claude Lelouch
1997	Tout doit disparaître	Eve Latour	Philippe Muyl
	Bouge!	Herself	Jérôme Cornuau
1998	Folle d'elle	Lisa	Jérôme Cornuau (2)
2000	2001: A Space Travesty	Cassandra Menage	Allan A. Goldstein
	La cape et l'épée	Cardinal Claudia's Girl		TV Series (1 Episode)
2001	She	Ayesha	Timothy Bond
	Pretty Things	Jessica	Gilles Paquet-Brenner
	My Wife Is an Actress	Famous girl in the train	Yvan Attal
2003	Mauvais esprit	Chrystèle Porel	Patrick Alessandrin
2010	R.I.S, police scientifique	Isabelle Ballancourt	François Guérin	TV Series (1 Episode)
2013	Doc Martin	Rebecca Mikelin	Jean-Pierre Sinapi	TV Series (1 Episode)

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