Hélène Hazera (born 1952) is a French journalist, actress, filmmaker, radio producer and trans activist. Born into a bourgeois family with ties to the French Resistance, Hazera grew up in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Her late adolescence was marked by crisis: she was committed to a psychiatric hospital at 17 following a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and went through a suicidal period. Estranged from her family and without resources,... see more