Michèle Cotta

Biography

Michèle Cotta (born 15 June 1937) is a French political journalist. Her father was the mayor of Nice. She started her career as a journalist for Combat. She moved on to interviewing politicians for L'Express, under the tutelage of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud. Between 1981 and 1986, then-President François Mitterrand appointed her as Head of Radio France, followed by the Haute Autorité, now known as the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel. She also served as news director for TF1 and program director for France 2. She now teaches at Sciences Po. She is also an editor for the Nouvel économiste and Direct Soir. In 1983, she became the first woman to join the think tank Le Siècle. Source: Article "Michèle Cotta" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

1993Nominee

Best Performance

Living Naked

1977Nominee

Best Performance

Armageddon

2002Nominee

Best Performance

Comme un coup de tonnerre

Career Highlights

2014Highlight

Best Performance

Giscard, l'impossible retour

2010Highlight

Best Performance

Dorothée : un jour on s'est retrouvé...