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Estelle Skornik

Estelle Skornik

Acting

Biography

Estelle Skornik (born 4 July 1971 in Paris) is a French actress, known in the United Kingdom for playing "Nicole" alongside Max Douchin ("Papa") in a range of Renault Clio advertisements. Her ancestors were Polish Jews, and her grandfather was killed trying to escape from Auschwitz. Her theatre debut was with the Francis Huster Company, at the same times as the actresses Valérie Crunchant, Christiana Reali, Clotilde Courau and Valentine Varela. She has subsequently devoted her career more to cinema and notably appeared in Prise au piège (director: Jérôme Enrico) with Lucia Sanchez and Nils Tavernier. In the United Kingdom she is most notable for playing "Nicole" alongside Max Douchin ("Papa") in a range of Renault Clio advertisements; the last was in May 1998 and featured the comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. It has been said that she was unable to drive when the advertisements were made. However, she has stated this was untrue. She also played in the theatre, in the production Home Truths at the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, United Kingdom, between 19 and 24 May 1997. Source: Article "Estelle Skornik" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Hornblower
7.8

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

Hornblower

1998
Ladies of the Law
6.2

No description available.

Ladies of the Law

2000
From Hell
6.7

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

From Hell

2001
Squad 36
6.2

Forced out of his elite unit, a troubled cop launches his own rogue investigation when mysterious killings claim the lives of his former colleagues.

Squad 36

2025
Marquise
5.5

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.

Marquise

1997
A Gang Story
6.8

After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.

A Gang Story

2011
The Hunter
7.0

French thriller about a serial killer whose life is about to fall apart. Samuel Delauney is a professional hitman working for his mother, the glamorous and domineering matriarch Natacha who helps wealthy clients get rid of their enemies. Natacha has never quite forgiven Samuel for the one and only contract he never fulfilled. On that occasion, instead of killing his mark, he married her.

The Hunter

2010
The Kiss Under the Bell
3.3

1962. Joseph, 13 years old, a choirboy and a true "light" of religion, set out to become Pope. Not less. Of Spanish origin, Angela and José, her parents, fled their country and misery to settle in a small village around Perpignan. Angela, sensual and beautiful to damn a saint, is an attentive and possessive mother. Joseph, this only son, she feels that she has received him as a gift from heaven. So she puts all her energy and maternal love overflowing to encourage the vocation of her son, unlike José who wishes for him a "normal" life, a life of man, simply.

The Kiss Under the Bell

1998
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
7.2

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

1999
Les Parasites
6.2

Oulage has it all planned: New Year's eve, at the stroke of midnight, he'll finally kiss Brigitte, the girl he's madly in love with. That'll be the moment, because Brigitte is having a costume party. Oulage has it all planned—except for the fact that Brigitte has also invited a gang of truly parasitical friends: an old girl friend who never leaves Brigitte's side, a manic-depressive police officer, a paranoid psychopath, a cannabis-addict suffering withdrawal pains, a stunning Cuban woman on the prowl for immigration papers, and many others who do everything to ruin Oulage's life.

Les Parasites

1999
The Unloved
9.0

An idle teenager with a bad attitude kidnaps a neighbor's baby.

The Unloved

1995
Virilité
5.5

Thirty-year-old Alexis is a teenager and has no desire to commit himself either professionally or romantically. He succumbs to the charm of Laura who uses her diabolical gifts to push him to work, marry him and have children.

Virilité

2001
The Window Over the Way
9.0

A Turkish consul travels to a Soviet city in the worst times of Stalinism. There, he falls in love with his secretary, a fervent communist.

The Window Over the Way

1993
Les Maîtres du pain
8.0

No description available.

Les Maîtres du pain

1993
Ce Jour là, tout a changé : L'évasion de Louis XVI
N/A

No description available.

Ce Jour là, tout a changé : L'évasion de Louis XVI

2009
Remember Us
5.7

Felix goes the university and leaves the family home. Perhaps it would be time for Carole and Benoît to think about their relationship. But how to reinvent themselves after 20 years living together? Unless it is already too late.

Remember Us

2019
Albert souffre
8.5

Albert dreams of going to Australia. Jérôme loves Jeanne, but ignores her while cramming for exams. An African named Charles writes and is a watchman at night. The American girl, Joann, lives her life in a " bachelor pad. " Love, friendship and chance take them all to a hotel in Bordeaux where, in the course of a weekend, their lonely hearts meet. The weekend is held over to leave time for love.

Albert souffre

1992