When she was three year old, Hanna already liked to sing. She was 13 when she appeared for the first time in a TV documentary. At 16 year old, Hanna met someone who will become her mentor, Pierre Bonte, who came in a ranch to film a documentary. Hanna was asked by Bonte to be in the documentary. Which gave her the confidence to pursue what she really wanted to do. To be an artist. Two weeks later in the same place, Hanna was going to meet two well known personalities in the French cinema: actor Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, and director Bertrand Tavernier with his son Niels Tavernier who were coming to shoot a film. The friendship that quickly began between Hanna and the team will help Hanna six months later to seriously start an artistic career. When Hanna, who has always been a fan of French singer Johnny Hallyday, arrived in Paris to pursue her career, she was very young with not a lot of money to live on: she accidentally found an opportunity to meet Johnny who was doing a big show in Bercy. Hanna was listening to the concert from outside the stadium when a man came to her. After a friendly conversation with the man who realizes that Hanna is a fan of Johnny, the man offered Hanna to follow him so she could see and enjoy the concert. It happened that the man was working directly with the French idol and another personality, Jean-Claude Camus. Once the concert was over, the man offered Hanna to come see Johnny backstage. From that point on, the team took a liking to Hanna and at 17 year old, Hanna began to follow Johnny and his team during the entire tour over a period of two months. Hanna was 20 when she started to perform as a singer in Paris, in night clubs first, then in festivals and special events like "Les trophées de la Nuit" at the Lido. She then met Thierry Sforzza, Jean Kritchmar, Gérard Layani and Ralf Bernet who all wrote lyrics for Hanna to sing. Later Hanna met Pierre Billon and Jean Mora who started to write for her. In janvier 2009, Hanna produced a single album which was going to be followed by a full album. Beween 2006 and 2007, Hanna exécuter on stage at La Française des Jeux with Pierre Billon etJean Mora une Biscarosse in front of an audience of 18.000 people and at Berck-Plage with also a large audience of 15.000 people. She keeps performing in concerts in Paris, including at the "Caveau des Artistes", the "Baiser Salé", the "Petit Journal Montparnasse" and at the "Réservoir". Meanwhile Hanna pursued an acting career, while writing and directing. She filmed a second clip of "Le sang des loups" (The blood of the Wolves) directed by Claude Routhiau (a collaborator of Cauet, Bataille and Fontaine, la tournée Age tendre....) with the participation in the clip of Chris Gibson. Hanna began to give more and more interviews on radios and to be invited to several talk shows on la télé channels like IDF1 where she performed various titles of her album. But beside a beautiful and powerful voice, Hanna was pursing acting in such films as "Narco" and "Comme une image", in TV shows, "Crimes Ordinaires" of Michel Reynaud and appeared in the clip of Gomez and Tavarez for the song "Hôtel Commissariat". Her album "Sentiments partagés" ("Feelings Shared") and especially one of the songs written by Jean Paul Dreau, "S'il Fallait" ("If it Must"), were well received by the audience . Hanna continued to collaborate with some of the best writers and composers in France. She then began to work on her second album. Hanna also directed short movies, feature films, music video clips and directed a concert in the Olympia, " Otis and James The Kings of the Souls". Hanna created and wrote a TV series called "Purgatoire". Recently Hanna wrote and directed a feature film called "Ames soeurs" ("Soul Mate") with Didier Gustin. A heartbreaking film about cancer and love. Hanna also wrote and directed "Le Sac Noir" ("The Black Bag"), a film in post. Hanna is an actress, writer, director ,producer and singer whose path crossed some of the biggest French stars in the movie and music business such as Alain Delon, Bertrand Tavernier Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Pierre Richard, Johnny Hallyday, among others. Hanna has performed many remarquables roles in movies and on TV. Her latest feature films, "Soul Mates" ("Ames Soeurs")and "The Black Bag" ("Le Sac Noir"), show her immense talent as an actress and director in very opposite film genres: a love story drama, and an action thriller. Hanna is an experienced producer, producing French and American films, with several high profile projects in the works in the US. Hanna also directed some segments of "Les Rois de la Soul" a show produced at "l''Olympia". Hanna recently caught the attention of American film studios. She has been cast among American stars in two American films to be released in 2020 -2021. Hanna is working on a music album as a singer that will be released in the US in 2021, to be produced by an American record label. Hanna also prepares her third feature film.

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