Zabou Breitman was born in Paris to an actress mother and a screenwriter father. Her father was so successful that “he didn't go out into the street without being attacked, it was crazy” “I was so embarrassed that I never shared my successes with them.

I know they were for me but deep down there was the feeling of their failure which was still very strong,” she says. ‘I turned the thing around and I take responsibility for it’