Hélène Frappat (2 September 1969 in Paris) is a French writer, translator and critic of cinema.
A former student of the École Normale Supérieure (class 1989),[1] she holds an agrégation of philosophy and a ph.d in letters.
She is the author of numerous translations, including The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, Études sur la personnalité autoritaire by Theodor W. Adorno, Amitié by Samson Raphaelson).
On France Culture, she produced the monthly cinema magazine "Rien à voir", from 2004 to 2009, as well as numerous documentaries.
[2] Her last novel, Trois femmes disparaissent, is based upon the lives of Tippi Hedren, her daughter Melanie Griffith and her granddaughter Dakota Johnson.