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Charlie Gillespie was born in Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada. He is an actor, known for Julie and the Phantoms (2020), Totally Killer (2023) and Deltopia (2023).

Valérie Lemercier was born on 9 March 1964 in Dieppe, France. She is an actress and director, known for The Visitors (1993), Aline (2020) and Monte Carlo (2011).

Oscar-winning Canadian make-up artist. A hairdresser from the age of eighteen, LeBlanc graduated from the New Brunswick Institute of Technology before moving to Toronto as a wig maker. He first worked in the film industry as a hair stylist in 1974. Within a decade, he had established a strong reputation for designing individual styles to complement the specific characters of his clientele. Actresses Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Twilight (1998), Stepmom (1998)) and Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct (1992), The Quick and the Dead (1995), Casino (1995)) counted among his most frequent collaborations. He also worked on the Coen brothers films O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) and The Ladykillers (2004). Other notable credits as hair designer/stylist included Mississippi Burning (1988), The Mask of Zorro (1998) and Black Swan (2010).

Popularly, LeBlanc's best-known creations were Princess Leia's long braids (as Jabba's slave and on Endor) for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and Javier Bardem's sinister bowl-cut for No Country for Old Men (2007). The latter, he explained, was fashioned after medieval Crusaders "when knights and Muslims were murdering each other, and this was a typical haircut. It was a dangerous time and we wanted to make Javier timeless and dangerous at first sight."

LeBlanc was co-recipient (with fellow make-up artist Dick Smith) of both an Academy Award and a BAFTA for his work on Amadeus (1984). In 2003, he also received a lifetime achievement award from the Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Guild. Four years later he set up Studio Paul LeBlanc in his home town of Dieppe. Latterly, he published two books of reminiscences about his tenure in the film industry, entitled "You Can Get There From Here" and "Moving On".

Anyone living in France has necessarily seen or heard Bernard Dhéran, in a theater, in a movie house, on a DVD or on a TV screen. Didn't he interpret dozens and dozens of plays - plays he sometimes directed himself? Wasn't he in 112 films, TV movies or series? Didn't he dub scores of famous actors such as David Niven, Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer, Christopher Lee or IanMcKellen? And yet if you ask anyone in France whether they know the name of Bernard Dhéran you are very likely to get a negative answer. And yet his fine figure, his great presence, his male assertive voice, his elegance (including when he plays the villain of the piece) are unmistakable. Born Bernard Poulain in Dieppe in 1926, he was raised in Rouen and was fourteen when the Nazis invaded France. When time came for him to choose a career he did not know what to do exactly but he took drama classes on a fancy. Little by little passion was aroused and it would never relinquish its grip on Bernard, now Dhéran - to his (and our) delight. He debuted in "Hamlet" in 1946 and was accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris the following year where he won a second prize. First hired by the Renaud-Barrault company, he belonged to the Comédie Française for nearly thirty years. He acted in plays by Molière, Corneille, Mirbeau, Montherlant, Camus, Billetdoux, Poiret, among many many others. He was acclaimed recently in Laurent Baffie's hilarious play "Toc Toc". Solicited by the cinema industry, Bernard Dhéran did not say no but it wasn't long before disappointment set in. Three roles in movies by his master Sacha Guitry, Gina Lollobrigida's fiancé (no less!) in René Clair's "Les Belles de Nuit" (1952) and a good part in a good solidarity movie "Si tous les gars du monde" (1955) by Christian-Jaque but most of the (numerous) films he made during the 1950s were standard comedies or crime stories in which he was invariably the elegant cynical gangster, crook or other type of bad man. Sick and tired, Dhéran went on working for the theater and favored TV where he got much more rewarding parts. He could indeed switch from Buckingham to Richelieu to Beaumarchais, to Voltaire to Talleyrand! Whereas only two or three films he made for the cinema stand out: "La belle Américaine (1962), Le silencieux" (1972), "Ridicule" (1995). It was a pleasure to find him back in 2007 in one of Claude Berri's last films "Ensemble c'est tout", in which he was the picturesque father of colorful Laurent Stocker. Be that as it may, Bernard Dhéran is still active and passionate sixty-three years after he first appeared on a stage. An everyday dedication to his art that commands respect.

Miss Ming was born on 3 November 1990 in Dieppe, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Mon amoureux (2011), Henri (2013) and Courted (2015).

Emmanuel Petit was born on 22 September 1970 in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France. He is an actor, known for Le monde de Fred (2014), Pepsi Worldcup Campaign 2002 (2002) and The Bill (1984). He has been married to Agathe de La Fontaine since 3 July 2000. They have one child.

Christine Lemler was born on 14 January 1968 in Dieppe, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Classe mannequin (1993), Le retour d'Arsène Lupin (1989) and My Woman Is Leaving Me (1996).

Yvette Petit was born on 22 October 1937 in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France. She was an actress, known for The Science of Sleep (2006), Valmont (1989) and The Cry of the Owl (1987). She died on 3 August 2019 in Louveciennes, Yvelines, France.

Chris Bialek was born on 18 July 1961 in Dieppe, France. Chris is a producer and executive, known for Night Walk (2019), Foxtrot Six (2019) and Rave Macbeth (2001).

Mustachioed, serious-countenanced, bald with a remaining crown of hair, with an imposing round figure, André Alerme became for two decades the quintessential dignitary of French cinema. Indeed, between 1930 and 1950, the popular character actor divided his performances between the Army, the Church and the Nobility. In the seventy-odd films he was in, he was in turns, captain (once in the army, the other time in the navy), the commander of a dragoon company, a colonel ; a baron (twice), a viscount, a count, a marquis, the King's tax collector and even, in the forgettable Aloha, le chant des îles (1937) , a Scottish lord (not his best role!) ; a priest, and even Saint Peter! He could also easily portray officials or people with an influential role in society : a doctor (twice), a politician, managers of various kinds, industrialists (he was already one in his first and only silent Amour et carburateur (1925), mayors, a financier, a couturier... His roundness could have suggested gentleness, but it is rather Monsieur Prudhomme, Henry Monnier's famous caricature character, that producers saw in him, the prototype of the plump, conformist, sententious, selfish bourgeois. For most of the characters played by Alerme are either unpleasant or ridiculous or both. The role epitomizing this type of character was the unforgettable pompous but cowardly mayor of a Flemish city in Jacques Feyder's classic Carnival in Flanders (1935). Alerme, although nearly always very good, has never been better than in this unparalleled masterpiece.

André Alerme had been born in Dieppe in 1877 and started studying medicine and sculpture, but irresistibly attracted by theater, he soon appeared on the Paris theater scene. It did not take long before he met with success in plays by Henri Bernstein, Alfred Savoir, 'Edouard Bourdet', Jean Anouilh, Marcel Achard and many others. His passage from the boards to the studio spotlights was marked by the role of Georges Samoy he played in Sacha Guitry's Le blanc et le noir (1931) and reprised in Robert Florey's film version. Combining stage and cinema work in the early thirties, André Alerme tended to privilege the seventh art after 1936. Most of the films he participated in were just commercial but a few remain, signed by Jacques Feyder, Julien Duvivier, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Abel Gance, Claude Autant-Lara, Edmond T. Gréville. A great actor, Alerme will forever remain Joseph Prudhomme, complete with pomp and wicked foolishness.

Aude Lemercier was born on 19 March 1973 in Dieppe, France. She is an actress, known for Amélie (2001), A Very Long Engagement (2004) and Beauty and the Beast (2017).

Philippe Brizard was born on 28 August 1933 in Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France. He was an actor, known for Les faucheurs de marguerites (1974), The Small Timers (1978) and France, Incorporated (1974). He died on 20 February 2021 in Paris, France.

Mary Odette was born on 10 August 1901 in Dieppe, France. She was an actress, known for She (1925), Castle of Dreams (1919) and The Lady Clare (1919). She died on 26 March 1987 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK.

Madeleine Aile was born on 30 June 1908 in Neuville-lès-Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure [now Dieppe, Seine-Maritime], France. She was an actress, known for Il était deux petits enfants (1922) and Tue-la-mort (1920). She died on 25 May 1984 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

Tommy Desserre was born on 18 February 1907 in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France. Tommy was a composer, known for The Trial (1962), Le bon roi Dagobert (1963) and Trois garçons et un planeur (1948). Tommy died on 5 September 1989 in Assigny, Seine-Maritime, France.

Alain Bancquart was born on 20 June 1934 in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France. He was married to Marie-Claire Bancquart. He died on 27 January 2022 in Paris, France.

Mario Leblanc was born on 18 October 1977 in Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada. He died on 30 September 2024 in Canada.