Elli Medeiros
- Actress
- Composer
- Writer
Elli Medeiros was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her mother, Mirtha
Medeiros, decided to become an actress after Elli was born, & when she
was admitted into Uruguay's Escuela National, had to take her along, so
Elli attended drama school & classes by Spanish teacher Pepe Struch
before kindergarden. Mirtha graduated and quickly became a very busy
actress and Elli was regularly hired each time a child was needed in a
play or a TV show. Her first part, at age 4, was Mme Butterfly's son,
in the production of Puccini's opera at the Montevideo Opera. This was
Orson Welles' first role, at the same age. Elli's father, José Luis
Medeiros, vanished from her life when she was five.
Elli attended the Uruguyan American School, and when her mother
remarried & moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, she attended the
Instituto Bayard, a British school. When she was fourteen, her mother &
step father moved to Paris, and she had to learn French in a couple of
months so she could attend high school. She tried several schools,
including an art schoot, l'Ecole des Arts Appliquées, but dropped out
before getting a "baccalauréat" to start her first band, the Stinky
Toys, the first French punk band, playing several London punk Festivals
along with the Clash & the Sex Pistols.
Elli appeared on the cover of 'Melody Maker' & that convinced the until
then extremely reluctant French record companies to sign them a deal.
After two albums, the Stinky Toys split and Elli and Stinky Toy Jacno
then released several albums as the techno pop duo 'Elli & Jacno'.
Their last was Full Moon in Paris (1984), the score to Éric Rohmer's movie. Elli then went
solo, her music becoming more personal, more Latin and had several hits
in France, including Toi mon Toit, mega hit of 1986, now a standard.
After a break, Elli decided to go back to acting & school, & worked
with 'Andreas Voutsinas', who was Lee Strasberg's assistant for twenty years and
created the Paris "Actor's Studio", le Théatre des Cinquante. She also
took classes with Madeleine Barchevska and Bob Mc Andrew.
Medeiros, decided to become an actress after Elli was born, & when she
was admitted into Uruguay's Escuela National, had to take her along, so
Elli attended drama school & classes by Spanish teacher Pepe Struch
before kindergarden. Mirtha graduated and quickly became a very busy
actress and Elli was regularly hired each time a child was needed in a
play or a TV show. Her first part, at age 4, was Mme Butterfly's son,
in the production of Puccini's opera at the Montevideo Opera. This was
Orson Welles' first role, at the same age. Elli's father, José Luis
Medeiros, vanished from her life when she was five.
Elli attended the Uruguyan American School, and when her mother
remarried & moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, she attended the
Instituto Bayard, a British school. When she was fourteen, her mother &
step father moved to Paris, and she had to learn French in a couple of
months so she could attend high school. She tried several schools,
including an art schoot, l'Ecole des Arts Appliquées, but dropped out
before getting a "baccalauréat" to start her first band, the Stinky
Toys, the first French punk band, playing several London punk Festivals
along with the Clash & the Sex Pistols.
Elli appeared on the cover of 'Melody Maker' & that convinced the until
then extremely reluctant French record companies to sign them a deal.
After two albums, the Stinky Toys split and Elli and Stinky Toy Jacno
then released several albums as the techno pop duo 'Elli & Jacno'.
Their last was Full Moon in Paris (1984), the score to Éric Rohmer's movie. Elli then went
solo, her music becoming more personal, more Latin and had several hits
in France, including Toi mon Toit, mega hit of 1986, now a standard.
After a break, Elli decided to go back to acting & school, & worked
with 'Andreas Voutsinas', who was Lee Strasberg's assistant for twenty years and
created the Paris "Actor's Studio", le Théatre des Cinquante. She also
took classes with Madeleine Barchevska and Bob Mc Andrew.