Mélanie Laurent
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · The Flood as Marie-Antoinette
- 2024 · Freedom as
- 2023 · Wingwomen as Carole
- 2023 · Fright Krewe as Fiona Bunrady (voice)
- 2023 · Murder Mystery 2 as Claudette
- 2023 · Beau geste as Self
- 2022 · Ride Above as Marie
- 2021 · The Mad Women's Ball as Geneviève Gleizes
- 2021 · Oxygen as Elizabeth 'Liz' Hansen
- 2020 · Little America as Sylviane
- 2019 · 6 Underground as Two
- 2019 · QT8: The First Eight as self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Inside The Operation as Self
- 2018 · Après Demain as Self
- 2018 · Operation Finale as Hanna Elian
- 2018 · Mia and the White Lion as Alice Owen
- 2018 · L'Autostoppeuse as
- 2018 · Return of the Hero as Elisabeth Beaugrand
- 2017 · My Son as Marie Blanchard
- 2017 · Paris Prestige as Margot
- 2016 · Eternity as Mathilde
- 2015 · Tomorrow as Self
- 2015 · By the Sea as Lea
- 2015 · Boomerang as Agathe Rey
- 2014 · Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy as Self
- 2014 · Enemy as Mary
- 2014 · Aloft as Jannia Ressmore
- 2013 · Now You See Me as Alma Dray
- 2013 · Night Train to Lisbon as Young Estefania
- 2011 · The Adopted as Lisa
- 2011 · Beginners as Anna Wallace
- 2011 · The Day I Saw Your Heart as Justine Dhrey
- 2011 · Requiem for a Killer as Lucrèce
- 2010 · Running Man as
- 2010 · The Round Up as Annette Monod
- 2009 · The Concert as Anne-Marie Jacquet
- 2009 · Inglourious Basterds as Shosanna
- 2009 · Every Jack Has a Jill as Chloe
- 2009 · The End of the Line as Narrator for France (voice)
- 2008 · The Business Trip as Réceptioniste de Hôtel
- 2008 · Souvenir as Party guest
- 2008 · Paris as Laetitia
- 2008 · The Killer as Stella
- 2007 · Hidden Love as Sophie
- 2007 · Room of Death as Lucie Hennebelle
- 2006 · Days of Glory as Margueritte village Vosges
- 2006 · Don't Worry, I'm Fine as Élise 'Lili' Tellier
- 2006 · Dikkenek as Natacha
- 2005 · Les Visages d'Alice as Alice
- 2005 · The Beat That My Heart Skipped as Minskov's Girlfriend
- 2004 · The Last Day as Louise
- 2004 · Rice Rhapsody as Sabine
- 2004 · Une vie à t'attendre as la jeune fille à l'usine
- 2003 · Snowboarder as Célia
- 2003 · Jean Moulin, une affaire française as Alice Arguel (jeune)
- 2003 · La faucheuse as Isabelle
- 2002 · Le Grand Mezze as
- 2002 · Summer Things as Carole
- 2001 · This Is My Body as Clara
- 1999 · The Bridge as Lisbeth
- 1998 · Les Malheurs de Sophie as Camille de Fleurville (voix)
- 1985 · Télématin as Self
- 2024 · Rosa Bonheur as Rosa Bonheur
- 2024 · The Wonderers as
- 2024 · A l'ombre des forêts as Krystel