Hélène Cardona

Hélène Cardona is a poet, linguist, literary translator and actor.

She was born in Paris, the daughter of Spanish poet Jose Manuel Cardona, from Ibiza, and a Greek mother.

[2] She studied in the University of Cantabria, Spain and in the Sorbonne in Paris, gaining a master's degree in American Literature.

[3] Cardona has worked as a translator for the French Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Embassy, and for the film industry.

[5] She played the part of Françoise "Fuffi" Drou, the beauty shop proprietor in the film Chocolat.

Cardona at 2014 Puterbaugh Festival