Oury (1919–2006), film director, screenwriter; father of Danièle Thompson Roman Polanski (born 1933), film director, screenwriter, actor (three-fourths Jewish) Rachel (1821–1858), Swiss-born stage actress Éric Rochant (born 1961), film director and screenwriter. Alexandra Rosenfeld (born 1986), Miss France 2006 Ida Rubinstein (1885–1960), Russian-born Belle Epoque icon Suzanne Schiffman (1929–2001), screenwriter, film director (half Jewish) Simone Signoret (1921–1985), German-born actress (half Jewish) Tomer Sisley (born 1974), German-born actor and comedian Estelle Skornik (born 1971), actress Nicole Stéphane (1923–2007), film producer, actress, and director Charlotte Szlovak (born 1947), Moroccan-born cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter Danièle Thompson (born 1942), film director, screenwriter (half Jewish); daughter of Gérard Oury Alexandre Trauner (1906–1993), Hungarian-born Academy Award winning Scenic designer Michael Vartan (born 1968), actor (half Jewish) Francis Veber (born 1937), film director, playwright and screenwriter (half Jewish) André Weinfeld (born 1947), film and television producer, director, screenwriter, photographer and journalist William Wyler (1902–1981), film director Yolande Zauberman, film director and screenwriter Elsa Zylberstein (born 1968), actress (half Jewish) Musicians Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), composer and pianist Franck Amsallem (born 1961), Algerian-born jazz pianist and composer Monique Andrée Serf (1930–1997), French singer known as Barbara Keren Ann (born 1974), Israeli-born folk singer Thomas Bangalter (born 1975), French musician known as half of the electro duo Daft Punk Patrick Bruel (born 1959), singer, musician, actor Marcel Dadi (1951–1996), guitarist Joe Dassin (1938–1980), American-born singer, son of Jules Dassin Mike Brant (1947–1975), singer Natalie Dessay (born 1965), opera singer soprano (converted to Judaism) Sacha Distel (1933–2004), singer, guitarist Paul Dukas (1865–1935), composer Jean Ferrat (1930–2010), singer-songwriter, poet Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991), singer-songwriter, musician, film composer, actor, film director, writer; father of Charlotte Gainsbourg Jean-Jacques Goldman (born 1951), singer, songwriter, musician; son of Alter Mojze Goldman, brother to Robert Goldman and half-brother to Pierre Goldman David Guetta (born 1967), DJ, remixer, songwriter Fromental Halévy (1799–1862), composer Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908), librettist; son of Élie Halévy Jenifer (born 1982), French pop singer (half Jewish) Joseph Kosma (1905–1969), Hungarian-born film composer Norbert Krief (born 1956), guitarist Jacques Lanzmann (1927–2006), lyricist; brother of Claude Lanzmann Isidore de Lara (1858–1930), English-born composer René Leibowitz (1913–1972), Polish-born composer Daniel Levi (born 1961), singer, composer Enrico Macias (born 1938), Algerian-born singer, guitarist Emmanuelle Haïm (born 1967), harpsichordist and conductor (half Jewish) Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), composer, member of the Groupe des six Pierre Monteux (1875–1964), conductor Georges Moustaki (1934–2013), Egyptian-born composer, singer Yael Naim (born 1978), singer-songwriter, guitarist Jacques