Antonia de Rendinger

Antonia de Rendinger, also known under the stage name Antonia, a Strasbourg native born on 26 December 1974 at the maternity hospital of Schiltigheim (Bas-Rhin), is a French actress and humorist; she is also a columnist and presenter. She is the daughter of Patrice de Rendinger and Sylvie Cazettes de Saint-Leger. On her paternal side, she comes from a family of barons and decorated military officers, and counts among her ancestors Francois-Ignace Derendinger, a brewer in Haguenau who in 1805 introduced hop cultivation to Alsace.

Holder of two master's degrees in ethnology and modern literature and an advanced studies diploma in sociology, she joined La Lolita (Ligue ouverte et libre d'improvisation theatrale amateur) of Strasbourg in 1993. She then left for Montreal in 1995, where she attended the Ligue d'improvisation montrealaise for a year, then in 1996 took courses at the Theatre jeune public de Strasbourg and joined the troupe Inedit Theatre in 1999. In 2002 she wrote, directed and performed her first one-woman-show Itineraire d'une enfant ratee, which she brought to the Festival Off d'Avignon 2004. With her second show Travail, Famille, Poterie she won the "Henri Salvador" prize 2012 at the Festival Mont-Blanc d'humour de Saint-Gervais, awarded by a jury chaired by Claude Lelouch.

She became known to the wider French public through the program On n'demande qu'a en rire presented on France 2 by Laurent Ruquier, in which she participated from 2012 to 2014, and was presented by producer Catherine Barma as "la revelation feminine de l'emission". In December 2017 she was the opening act for Dany Boon's show at the Olympia. Her film work includes La Ch'tite Famille (2018) by Dany Boon and several other comedies, and on television she appeared in series such as En place (Netflix, 2023) and Emily in Paris (Netflix, 2024).