Biography
Franz-Olivier Giesbert (born January 18, 1949, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American-born French journalist, author, and television presenter.
Giesbert worked for Le Figaro from 1988 to 2000 and for Le Point starting in 2000.
In 2013, he wrote the scenario of a documentary about his relationship with the former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, secrets d’une présidence. ("Nicholas Sarkozy, secrets of a presidency").
Giesbert hosts the cable television, weekly, literary show Le Gai Savoir on Paris Première. In 1999, the show won the Richelieu price of the Association for the Defense of French Language. Since October 2011, he hosts Les Grandes Questions on France 5. And starting in 2012, he also hosts on France 3 the monthly show Le Monde d'après ("The world after").
In 2007, he wrote the biography of Marseille's mobster Jacky le Mat, l'Immortel, adapted by Richard Berry.
In 2018, he is attacked by Asia Argento and Marlène Schiappa, for explaining actresses presented as crucified and raped by Harvey Weinstein had to know what happened than, analyzed as Gaslighting, Slut shaming and Victim blaming.
In 2021, the pedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff, describes him as an unwavering support. He was criticized byt Laure Adler for regretting that people didn't speak french, at the train station of Marseille.
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Filmography
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self 17
TV Shows 13
Movies 12
Writer 3
Creator 1
Director 1
Mort d'un berger (2024)
214, rue de Rivoli : Le dîner spécial 20 ans (2023)
Quelle époque ! (2022)
Mitterrand, président culturel (2021)
Élysée, la solitude du pouvoir (2017)
Opération Elysée (2016)
Juppé, le ressuscité (2016)
Folie passagère (2015)
Ministre ou rien (2014)
Lanester (2014)
La Parenthèse inattendue (2012)
The New Watchdogs (2012)
28 minutes (2012)
Manipulations : une histoire francaise (2011)
Histoire immédiate (2011)
Le Petit Journal (2011)
François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996 (2011)
Le bal des menteurs (2011)
François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie (2010)
22 Bullets (2010)
Salut les Terriens ! (2006)
Who Is Bernard Tapie? (2001)
Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols (1999)
Vivement dimanche (1998)
Apostrophes (1975)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1949-01-18 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceWilmington, United States of America
SiblingsJean-Christophe Giesbert
CitizenshipsFrance, United States of America
Also Known AsFOG
AwardsGrand prix littéraire de Provence, Prix Récamier, Grand prix de la biographie politique, Prix Richelieu, Prix Interallié, Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
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