Ophélie Winter

Ophélie Winter
Ophélie Winter at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival
Background information
Birth name	Ophélie Kleerekoper-Winter
Born	(1974-02-20) 20 February 1974 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Occupation(s)	Singer, actress

Ophélie Kleerekoper-Winter (born 20 February 1974) is a French singer and actress.

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,^[1] 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.^[1] 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.^[1] 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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ophélie Winter.

• Official website
• Ophélie Winter at the Internet Movie Database