---
name: "Caroline Benjo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/caroline-benjo"
fi1m_id: "caroline-benjo"
imdb_id: "nm0071379"
tmdb_id: 19931
wikidata_id: "Q80820700"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "13 November 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-01T20:43:39.392208+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Caroline Benjo

## Identity

Caroline Benjo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/caroline-benjo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** caroline-benjo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0071379
- **TMDB ID:** 19931
- **Wikidata ID:** Q80820700
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80820700, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071379/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19931

Producer. Born 13 November 1961 in Morocco.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 13 November 1961, Morocco
- **Active:** 2008–2016
- **Frequently works with:** [Simon Arnal](https://film.one/person/simon-arnal.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 60 (1), 2010s 79 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, History 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $67m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80820700, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071379/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19931

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Coco Before Chanel*](https://film.one/film/coco-before-chanel.md) (60)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Caroline Benjo is a French film and television producer. She began her career as a film critic, coordinating the magazine *Vertigo* in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1994 she joined the independent production company Haut et Court, founded by Carole Scotta in 1992, and has since directed the company.

Benjo's credits include the Palme d'Or-winning *The Class* (2008) and *Coco Before Chanel* (2009), both produced with Haut et Court colleagues. She has also produced *The Lobster* (2015), *The Night of the 12th* (2022) and the series *The Young Pope* (2016) and *The New Pope* (2020). In 2014 she was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Young Pope* (2016), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-young-pope.md)
- *The Lobster* (2015), Fi1m 78, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lobster.md)
- *Coco Before Chanel* (2009), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/coco-before-chanel.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Case 137* (2025), Producer
- *Drone* (2024), Producer
- *Constellation* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Monsieur Spade* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Normal* (2023), Producer
- *Train Like a Girl* (2022), series, Associate Producer
- *The Night of the 12th* (2022), Producer
- *Copilot* (2021), Co-Producer
- *Possessions* (2020), series, Producer
- *Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi* (2020), Associate Producer
- *The New Pope* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *Only the Animals* (2019), Producer
- *A Bigger World* (2019), Associate Producer
- *The Night Eats the World* (2018), Associate Producer
- *150 Milligrams* (2016), Producer
- *The Young Pope* (2016), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-young-pope.md)
- *The Lobster* (2015), Associate Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lobster.md)
- *Journey Through China* (2015), Associate Producer
- *The Returned* (2015), series, Executive Producer
- *Sanctuary* (2015), Associate Producer
- *Yellowbird* (2014), Producer
- *Foxfire* (2013), Producer
- *Pauline détective* (2012), Producer
- *The Woman in the Fifth* (2011), Producer
- *Xanadu* (2011), series, Producer
- *Black Heaven* (2010), Producer
- *Coco Before Chanel* (2009), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/coco-before-chanel.md)
- *The Class* (2008), Producer
- *What If...?* (2008), Producer
- *La Vie d'artiste* (2007), Producer
- *Heading South* (2006), Producer
- *Backstage* (2005), Producer
- *The Returned* (2004), Producer
- *Who Killed Bambi?* (2003), Producer
- *Kiss of Life* (2003), Co-Producer
- *Behind the Sun* (2001), Associate Producer
- *The Pornographer* (2001), Associate Producer
- *Time Out* (2001), Producer
- *Human Resources* (1999), Producer
- *The Sanguinaires* (1999), Producer
- *Last Night* (1998), Executive Producer
- *The Book of Life* (1998), Producer
- *Midnight* (1998), Producer
- *Rosa Bonheur*, Producer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- Knight of the Legion of Honour 2014: Knight of the Legion of Honour (won)
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2009: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Coco Before Chanel*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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