Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress.

Career

Stinky Toys

Originally from Uruguay, Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the

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band Stinky Toys.

Elli et Jacno

After the group disbanded, Medeiros joined another Stinky Toy member Jacno to form the

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duo

Elli et Jacno Elli et Jacno was a French 1980s electropop group. They were quite successful in France and to some extent in Britain, having been featured once on the front page of Melody Maker magazine. History Denis Quilliard (alias Jacno) and Elli Medeiros ...

. Together they released several albums, one of them the soundtrack to an

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film ''Les nuits de la pleine lune''.

Solo

The singer went solo in 1986. The songs, "Toi mon toit" (1986) and "A bailar calypso" (1987), were big hits in France and had a more Latin sound than her previous records. She sang back-up vocals on several of pop star Etienne Daho's songs from his 1996 album ''Eden''. She also helped co-write his song "Me manquer" from the same album. Elli Medeiros appears in a number of French films and has worked with, among others,

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and

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Filmography

* 1978: ''

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'' : Anne * 1980: ''Rectangle – Deux chansons de Jacno'' (music video) : Elli * 1982: ''Tokyo no yami (Laissé inachevé à Tokyo)'' * 1982: '' L'Enfant secret'' : The whore * 1991: '' Petits travaux tranquilles'' : Paule * 1991: '' Paris s'éveille'' * 1997: '' Tempête dans un verre d'eau'' * 1998: '' Il suffirait d'un pont'' * 1998: ''

Fin août, début septembre ''Late August, Early September'' () is a 1998 French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas and starring Mathieu Amalric. Plot Adrien ( François Cluzet), a tough-loving writer who has had only marginal commercial success as a bestselling auth ...

'' * 1999: '' Derrière la porte'' * 1999: '' Pourquoi pas moi?'' : Malou * 1999: ''

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(Vénus beauté (institut))'' : Mlle Evelyne * 2000: ''

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'' : Irène * 2000: '' Paris, mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde'' : The girl * 2000: ''

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'' : Danièle Joubert * 2002: ''

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'' : Lulu * 2002: ''

House Hunting ''House Hunting'' (also released as ''The Wrong House'') is a 2012 psychological horror- thriller film that was written and directed by Eric Hurt. The film had its world release on October 2, 2012 at the Virginia Film Festival, and received a DVD ...

'' : The girl * 2003: ''

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'' * 2005: ''Panorama'' : The mother * 2007: ''

After Him ''After Him'' () is a 2007 French drama film directed by Gaël Morel. The film stars Catherine Deneuve as Camille, a woman grieving the death of her son Mathieu (Adrien Jolivet) in a car accident, who becomes obsessed with becoming a substitute ...

(Après lui)'' : Pauline * 2008: ''

Leonera ''Lion's Den'' () is a 2008 drama film directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by Pablo Trapero. Addressing motherhood within the prison system, it stars Martina Gusmán, Elli Medeiros and Rodrigo Santoro. The film competed in the Compet ...

'' : Sofia * 2018: ''

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'' : Eve * 2024: '' To Live, To Die, To Live Again (Vivre, mourir, renaître)''

Discography

* 1977: grey album (Polydor) Stinky Toys * 1979: yellow album (Vogue) Stinky Toys * 1980: Tout va sauter (Vogue)

* 1981: Inedits 77-81 (Celluloid/EJC/Vogue)

* 1982: Boomerang (Celluloid/EJC/ Vogue)

* 1984:

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Bof 'Les nuits de la pleine lune d'

(EJC/CBS)

* 1987: Bom Bom... (Barclay) * 1989: Elli (Barclay) * 1994" Les Symphonies de poche compilation de

(Virgin) * 1998: Best of Elli (Barclay) * 2006: E M (V2)

References

External links

* 1956 births Living people 20th-century French women singers French film actresses French-language singers Uruguayan emigrants to France French punk rock singers French women punk rock singers {{France-film-actor-1950s-stub