Judith Vittet

Biography

Judith Vittet is a French actress who played "Miette" in La Cité des enfants perdus (English: The City of Lost Children) (1995). Before her Miette role, Vittet played Lili in Personne ne m'aime (1994). She also had roles in Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995) and K (1997). At the age of nine, Judith Vittet was noticed by a casting director when she was leaving school. She appeared with Marion Vernoux and Claude Sautet in Nelly, and with Monsieur Arnaud and Alexandre Arcady in K. In 1995 she played the role of Miette in The City of Lost Children by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. After four films and obtaining her ES baccalaureate in 2002, she spent time in the United States and ended her career to continue her film studies at Paris VIII. Until 2014, Judith Vittet worked as a costume designer for a number of television series. She also developed her large formats for window displays. Leather trees, garlands of foliage, cotton seaweed, hand-embroidered clouds blend together in her textile installations on the theme of the forest and the ocean. Judith exhibits her work at various fairs. In January 2018, she was an exhibition curator for the city of Guyancourt on the "Doudous!" project, organized as a tribute to textile art, which featured the city’s inhabitants through participatory workshops. Her exhibition of embroidered busts dedicated to women victims of violence.