Cécile Bois (born 1971) is a French TV, stage, and film actress. She came to national attention when she was cast, aged 24, in the title role of Robert Hossein's play Angélique, Marquise des Anges. In recent years, she is most known for her turn in the title role on the French TV crime drama, Candice Renoir.
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Early life and education
Cécile Bois was born in Talence and grew up in Lormont, Bassens, and Bordeaux. Her father was a teacher and her mother worked as an adviser for the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and Bois has a younger sister.
Bois wanted to be an actress since the age of 4. While at school Bois joined an amateur theatre troupe. The following year she entered the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, which she subsequently left to join another theatre group named "Le théâtre en vrac".
