Coline Serreau (born 29 October 1947) is a French actress, film director and writer.

In Paris, Serreau studied literature, music and theatre[2] and is a trained organist and trapeze artist.

[2] Her 1985 comedy Trois hommes et un couffin (remade in the US as Three Men and a Baby was the most commercially successful film of the 1980s in French.

Her biggest commercial success was the comedy film Three Men and a Cradle (Trois hommes et un couffin; 1985),[1] for which she received three César Awards in 1986.

She collaborated with Besson for several years and he also staged Le théâtre de verdure (1987) and Quisaitout et Grobêta (1993).