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.
Filmography
all 72
Movies 65
Director 8
TV Shows 7
self 7
Voice 1
Producer 1
Narrator 1
Wingwomen (2023)
Fright Krewe (2023)
Murder Mystery 2 (2023)
Beau geste (2023)
Ride Above (2022)
No Limit (2022)
The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
Oxygen (2021)
Oxygen (2020)
Little America (2020)
Little America: The Silence (2020)
6 Underground (2019)
QT8: The First Eight (2019)
Inside The Operation (2018)
Galveston (2018)
Après Demain (2018)
Operation Finale (2018)
Mia and the White Lion (2018)
L'Autostoppeuse (2018)
Return of the Hero (2018)
Diving (2017)
My Son (2017)
Paris Prestige (2017)
Eternity (2016)
Tomorrow (2015)
By the Sea (2015)
Boomerang (2015)
Breathe (2014)
Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy (2014)
Enemy (2014)
Aloft (2014)
Now You See Me (2013)
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
The Adopted (2011)
Beginners (2011)
Requiem for a Killer (2011)
The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011)
Running Man (2010)
The Round Up (2010)
The Concert (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Every Jack Has a Jill (2009)
The End of the Line (2009)
X Femmes (2008)
The Business Trip (2008)
Souvenir (2008)
Paris (2008)
The Killer (2008)
Less and Less (2008)
Hidden Love (2007)
Room of Death (2007)
Days of Glory (2006)
Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
Dikkenek (2006)
Les visages d'Alice (2005)
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
The Last Day (2004)
Rice Rhapsody (2004)
Une vie à t'attendre (2004)
Snowboarder (2003)
Jean Moulin, une affaire française (2003)
La faucheuse (2003)
Summer Things (2002)
This Is My Body (2001)
The Bridge (1999)
Les Malheurs de Sophie (1998)
Télématin (1985)
Le Déluge
The Nightingale
The Mother
Rosa Bonheur
Sulak
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1983-02-21 (41 years old)
Birth NameMélanie Eugénie Laurent
Birth Place13th arrondissement of Paris, France
ReligionJudaism
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known As멜라니 로랑, メラニー・ロラン, 梅拉尼·罗兰
Awardshonorary doctor of the University of Namur, Officer of Arts and Letters, Knight of the National Order of Merit, Lumières Award for Most Promising Actress, Prix Romy Schneider, César Award for Best Documentary Film, César Award for Most Promising Actress
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