Mireille Mathieu
Acting • Born 1946-07-22
Biography
Mireille Mathieu (born 22 July 1946), is a French singer. She has recorded over 1200 songs in eleven languages, with more than 122 million records sold worldwide. Mireille Mathieu was born on 22 July 1946 in Avignon, France, the eldest daughter of a family of fourteen children; the youngest brother was born after she moved to Paris. Her father Roger and his family were native to Avignon, while her mother Marcelle-Sophie (née Poirier) was from Dunkirk. She arrived in Avignon in 1944 as a refugee from World War II after her grandmother had died, and her mother went missing. Roger, with his father Arcade, ran the family stonemason shop just outside the Saint-Véran cemetery main gate. The Mathieu family have been stonemasons for four generations. Today the shop is named Pompes Funèbres Mathieu-Mardoyan, owned and managed by her sister Réjane's family. The Mathieu family lived in poverty, with a huge improvement in their living conditions in 1954, when subsidized housing was built in the Malpeigné quarter near the cemetery. Then again in 1961 they moved to a large tenement in the Croix des Oiseaux quarter southeast of the city. Roger had once dreamed of becoming a singer, but his father Arcade disapproved, inspiring him to have one of his children learn to sing with him in church. Mireille included her father's operatic voice on her 1968 Christmas album, where it was mixed in with the Minuit Chrétiens song. Mireille's first paid performance before an audience, at age four, was rewarded with a lollipop when she sang on Christmas Eve 1950 during Midnight Mass. A defining moment was seeing Édith Piaf sing on television. Mireille performed poorly in elementary school because of dyslexia, requiring an extra year to graduate. She was born left-handed, and her teachers used a ruler to strike her hand each time she was caught writing with it. She became right-handed, although her left hand remains quite animated while singing. She has a fantastic memory, and never uses a prompter on stage. Abandoning higher education, at age 14 (1961), and after moving to Croix des Oiseaux, she began work in a local factory in Montfavet (a suburb southeast of town) where she helped with the family income and paid for her singing lessons. Popular at work, she often sang songs at lunch, or while working. Like her parents, she is a short woman at 1.52 m (5 feet) in height. Her sister Monique, born on 8 July 1947, began work at the same factory a few months later. Both were given bicycles on credit to commute with, making for very long days, and many bad memories of riding against the mistral winds. The factory went out of business, so Mireille and two sisters (Monique, and Christiane) became youth counselors at a summer camp before her rise to fame, a summer where she had her fortune told by Tarot cards by an old Gypsy woman, saying she would soon mingle with kings and queens. ... Source: Article "Mireille Mathieu" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
99 credits
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Movie • 2014
Happy New Year
Movie • 1973
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Peter Alexander presents Walt Disney's World
Movie • 1976
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A Slightly Pregnant Man
Movie • 1973
Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu, la mystérieuse demoiselle d'Avignon
Movie • 2023
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
Movie • 2023
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie • 2022
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Reporters
Movie • 1981
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The Journalist
Movie • 1967
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Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
Movie • 1998
Concerto di Natale in Vaticano 2019
Movie • 2019
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Michel Sardou, les meilleures chansons
Movie • 2021
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Die Schlagerparty der 70er
Movie • 2021
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Mireille Mathieu - Singen, nur singen
Movie • 2021
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Schlager nonstop Die 60er – Merci, Cherie
Movie • 2018
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France, Song
Movie • 1969
Herself
Numéro un
TV • 1975
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The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
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Victoires de la musique
TV • 1985
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Le monde est à vous
TV • 1987
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Vivement dimanche prochain
TV • 1998
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Lahaye d'honneur
TV • 1987
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
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Dalli Dalli
TV • 1971
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Disco
TV • 1971
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Musik ist Trumpf
TV • 1975
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Die Montagsmaler
TV • 1974
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The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
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Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren
TV • 1979
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Denk ich an Weihnacht
TV • 2011
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Don-Lurio-Show
TV • 1972
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Leute heute
TV • 1997
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Hätten Sie heut’ Zeit für mich?
TV • 1972
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Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
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Dalli Dalli
TV • 1971
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Einer wird gewinnen
TV • 1964
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Ein Kessel Buntes
TV • 1972
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Flitterabend
TV • 1988
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Musik liegt in der Luft
TV • 1991
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Na sowas!
TV • 1982
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Die Rudi Carrell Show
TV • 1965
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Verstehen Sie Spaß?
TV • 1980
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Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten
TV • 1969
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Musik aus Studio B
TV • 1961
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Starparade
TV • 1968
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Die Pyramide
TV • 1979
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Musikalische Reise
TV • 2010
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Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
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Cadet Rousselle
TV • 1971
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Bambi
TV • 1948
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Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
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ZDF-Fernsehgarten
TV • 1986
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Die ZDF-Hitparade
TV • 1969
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Die ultimative Chartshow
TV • 2003
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Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
TV • 2004
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Zum blauen Bock
TV • 1957
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Auf los geht's los
TV • 1977
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Dim Dam Dom
TV • 1965
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Drei mal neun
TV • 1970
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Der goldene Schuß
TV • 1964
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Vergißmeinnicht
TV • 1964
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Midi trente
TV • 1972
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Show & Co. mit Carlo
TV • 1984
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Show-Express
TV • 1980
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Numéro un
TV • 1975
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Numéro un
TV • 1975
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Le Petit Rapporteur
TV • 1975
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Système 2
TV • 1975
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Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
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Midi Première
TV • 1975
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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV • 2022
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Fan School
TV • 1977
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Die verflixte 7
TV • 1984
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Wie wär’s heut’ mit Revue?
TV • 1983
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Beckmann
TV • 1999
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Starnacht am Wörthersee
TV • 2000
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Tag des deutschen Schlagers
TV • 1981
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Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre
TV • 1971
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Melodien für Millionen
TV • 1985
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Wünsch dir was
TV • 1969
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Die Drehscheibe
TV • 1964
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Der große Preis
TV • 1974
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Star Academy
TV • 2001
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Das Sonntagskonzert
TV • 1969
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40° à l'ombre
TV • 1987
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Discorama
TV • 1959
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Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen
TV • 1994
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Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
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Stars 90
TV • 1990
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Was bin ich?
TV • 1955
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30 millions d'amis
TV • 1976
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The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
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Samedi soir
TV • 1971
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Téléthon
TV • 1987
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Super-Chancen
TV • 1988
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Die Beatrice Egli Show
TV • 2022
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Unsere kleine Show - Musik zur blauen Stunde
TV • 1969
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C à vous
TV • 2009
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Die Krone der Volksmusik
TV • 1998