Emily in Paris
Emily in Paris is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for Netflix. The series stars Lily Collins as aspiring marketing executive Emily Cooper, an American who moves to Paris to provide an American point of view to a French marketing firm. In Paris, she tries to overcome challenges in her work, love life, and friendships. The series also stars Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Bruno Gouery, Camille Razat, William Abadie, and Lucien Laviscount. Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and developed initially for Paramount Network, where it was given a straight-to-series order in September 2018, the series moved to Netflix in July 2020. Filming takes place in Île-de-France, mainly in Paris and its suburbs, and began in August 2019. Emily in Paris premiered on October 2, 2020, to positive reviews in the United States but criticism in France for negatively stereotyping Parisians and the French. In November 2020, the series was renewed for a second season by Netflix, which premiered on December 22, 2021. In January 2022, the series was renewed for a third and fourth season by Netflix. The third season premiered on December 21, 2022. Premise Emily in Paris follows Emily Cooper, an American from Chicago with a Master's degree in communications, who moves to Paris for a new job opportunity. She is tasked with bringing an American point of view and social media presence to a venerable French marketing firm. Cultures clash as she adjusts to the challenges of life in Paris while juggling her career, new friendships, and active love life. Cast and characters Main Lily Collins as Emily Cooper, a 29-year-old who moves from Chicago to Paris for a temporary social media strategy job at Savoir Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie, Emily's tough and bitter boss at Savoir in Paris Ashley Park as Mindy Chen, Emily's first friend in Paris, a Chinese-Korean nanny and aspiring singer, and the heiress to a Shanghai business magnate from whom she is estranged Lucas Bravo as Gabriel, Emily's attractive downstairs neighbor, the head chef at Chez Lavaux, Camille's former boyfriend and Emily's lover Samuel Arnold as Julien, Emily's trendy and theatrical co-worker who forms a comic duo with Luc Bruno Gouery as Luc, Emily's quirky co-worker, who forms a comic duo with Julien Camille Razat as Camille, Emily's former friend, and Gabriel's former girlfriend who works at an art gallery and is a champagne heiress. Her family, part of the French nobility, owns a château and vineyard. William Abadie as Antoine Lambert (season 2–present; recurring season 1), Emily's client who owns the perfume company Maison Lavaux and is having a long-standing affair with Sylvie Lucien Laviscount as Alfie (season 3; recurring season 2), an English banker in Emily's French class and Emily's love interest Recurring Kate Walsh as Madeline, Emily's boss in Chicago who cannot take the job in Paris after learning that she is pregnant Jean-Christophe Bouvet as Pierre Cadault, a famous flamboyant French designer and uncle of Mathieu Charles Martins as Mathieu