Lisa Azuelos (born Elise-Anne Bethsabée Azuelos; 6 November 1965) is a French director, writer, and producer. She is the daughter of singer

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Biography

Lisa Azuelos is the daughter of

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singer and actress Marie Laforêt and of Judas Azuelos, a Moroccan Jew of

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descent. She has a younger brother and a step-sister, Deborah. Her parents separated when she was 2 years old. Her mother kept her and sent her with her brother to a Swiss boarding school, "Les Sept Nains", where children were allegedly maltreated physically and mentally.

"Libé"> Afterwards the two siblings were sent to live with someone in a small village in the department of

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. She stayed with her father since the age of twelve. That is the time she discovered his Sephardic heritage. Lisa Azuelos was introduced to her future husband, film producer Patrick Alessandrin, by

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. The couple has three children, Carmen, Illan and Thaïs. They divorced after 11 years of marriage. Lisa Azuelos has a film production company, which she named Bethsabée Mucho after her paternal great-grandmother Bethsabée.

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