Background
Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.
Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.
She is half Jewish from her father, and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury. In 2010, she was with Isabelle Adjani, Paul Auster, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Pierre Thiollet and Henri Tisot among the petition"s signatures for Roman Polanski when the film director was temporarily arrested by Swiss police at the request of United States authorities. Thompson"s son is the actor Christopher Thompson.
They have written screenplays together, most notably those of Jet Lag and Season"s Beatings.
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) (screenplay) Louisiana Grande Vadrouille (1966) (adaptation).