Mélanie Laurent
Mélanie Laurent
Biography
Mélanie Laurent (born 21 February 1983) is a French actress, filmmaker, and singer. The recipient of two César Awards and a Lumières Award, she is an accomplished actress in the French film industry. Globally, she is best known for her roles in Inglourious Basterds, Now You See Me, 6 Underground, and Operation Finale. Born in Paris to a Jewish family, Laurent was introduced to acting at the age of sixteen by Gérard Depardieu, who cast her in a minor role in the romantic drama The Bridge (1999). She gained wider recognition for her supporting work in several French films, most notably the 2006 comedy Dikkenek, for which she won Étoiles d'Or for Best Female Newcomer. Her breakthrough role came in the 2006 drama film Don't Worry, I'm Fine, for which she later won the César Award for Most Promising Actress and the Prix Romy Schneider. Laurent made her Hollywood debut in 2009 with the role as Shosanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster war film Inglourious Basterds. Her performance won the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film Critics Association Best Actress Awards. While she has worked mainly in independent films, including Paris (2008) and Enemy (2013), Laurent also appeared in commercially successful Hollywood films, including the comedy drama Beginners (2011), and the caper film Now You See Me (2013), the former earning her a nomination at the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress. Laurent's other notable works include the art-house drama The Round Up (2010), the comedy drama Et soudain, tout le monde me manque (2011), and the mystery thriller Night Train to Lisbon (2013). She is also known for voicing Mary Katherine and Disgust in the French dubs of Epic (2013) and Inside Out (2015) respectively. Additionally, she starred in Chris Weitz's 2018 drama Operation Finale with Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, telling the story of the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann. In addition to her film career, Laurent has appeared in stage productions in France. She made her theatre debut in 2010 in Nicolas Bedos's Promenade de santé. The short film De moins en moins (2008) marked her debut as a filmmaker. Her feature film directorial debut is The Adopted (2011). Respire (2014), her second production as a director, was screened at the International Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. She made her singing debut with a studio album En t'attendant in May 2011; the album contains twelve songs, five of which are co-written and co-produced by Irish folk musician Damien Rice.
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as Rosa Bonheur
as Krystel
as Marie-Antoinette
as Carole
as Claudette
as Fiona Bunrady (voice)
as Self
as Marie
as Geneviève Gleizes
as Elizabeth 'Liz' Hansen
as Sylviane
as Two
as self (archive footage)
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as Hanna Elian
as Alice Owen
as Elisabeth Beaugrand
as Marie Blanchard
as Margot
as Mathilde
as Self
as Lea
as Agathe Rey
as Mary
as Jannia Ressmore
as Alma Dray
as Young Estefania
as Lisa
as Anna Wallace
as Justine Dhrey
as Lucrèce
as Annette Monod
as Anne-Marie Jacquet
as Shosanna
as Chloe
as Narrator for France (voice)
as Réceptioniste de Hôtel
as Party guest
as Laetitia
as Stella
as Sophie
as Lucie Hennebelle
as Margueritte village Vosges
as Élise 'Lili' Tellier
as Natacha
as Alice
as Minskov's Girlfriend
as Louise
as Sabine
as la jeune fille à l'usine
as Célia
as Alice Arguel (jeune)
as Isabelle
as Carole
as Clara
as Lisbeth
as Camille de Fleurville (voix)
as Self
Director
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Writer
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as Screenplay
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Producer
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