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person_profile-Mélanie Laurent

Mélanie Laurent Age: 42

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Feb 21, 1983

Country of birth:

France

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Mélanie Laurent

Found 53 Movies in total

... 2025

The Flood

Maria Antonietta ( Actor )

... 2024

Freedom

Actor

... 2024

Wingwomen

Carole ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2023

Murder Mystery 2

Claudette ( Actor )

... 2023

Ride Above

Marie ( Actor )

... 2022

The Mad Women's Ball

Geneviève Gleizes ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2021

Oxygen

Elizabeth 'Liz' Hansen ( Actor )

... 2021

6 Underground

Two ( Actor )

... 2019

QT8: The First Eight

self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

Operation Finale

Hanna Elian ( Actor )

... 2018

Mia and the White Lion

Alice Owen ( Actor )

... 2018

Return of the Hero

Elisabeth Beaugrand ( Actor )

... 2018

My Son

Marie Blanchard ( Actor )

... 2017

Paris Prestige

Margot ( Actor )

... 2017

Eternity

Mathilde ( Actor )

... 2016

Tomorrow

Self ( Actor )

Director

... 2015

By the Sea

Lea ( Actor )

... 2015

Boomerang

Agathe Rey ( Actor )

... 2015

Inside Out

Additional Voices (voice) ( Actor )

... 2015

Enemy

Mary ( Actor )

... 2014

Aloft

Jannia Ressmore ( Actor )

... 2014

Now You See Me

Alma Dray ( Actor )

... 2013

Epic

Additional Voices (voice) ( Actor )

... 2013

Night Train to Lisbon

Young Estefania ( Actor )

... 2013

The Adopted

Lisa ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2011

Beginners

Anna Wallace ( Actor )

... 2011

The Day I Saw Your Heart

Justine Dhrey ( Actor )

... 2011

Requiem for a Killer

Lucrèce ( Actor )

... 2011

The Round Up

Annette Monod ( Actor )

... 2010

The Concert

Anne-Marie Jacquet ( Actor )

... 2009

Inglourious Basterds

Shosanna Dreyfus / Emmanuelle Mimieux ( Actor )

... 2009

Every Jack Has a Jill

Chloe ( Actor )

... 2009

The End of the Line

Narratrice (voix française) ( Actor )

... 2009

Paris

Laetitia ( Actor )

... 2008

The Killer

Stella ( Actor )

... 2008

Hidden Love

Sophie ( Actor )

... 2007

Room of Death

Lucie Hennebelle ( Actor )

... 2007

Days of Glory

Margueritte village Vosges ( Actor )

... 2006

... 2006

Dikkenek

Natacha ( Actor )

... 2006

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Minskov's Girlfriend ( Actor )

... 2005

The Last Day

Louise ( Actor )

... 2004

Rice Rhapsody

Sabine ( Actor )

... 2004

Une vie à t'attendre

la jeune fille à l'usine ( Actor )

... 2004

Snowboarder

Célia ( Actor )

... 2003

Jean Moulin, une affaire française

Alice Arguel (jeune) ( Actor )

... 2003

... 2002

Summer Things

Carole ( Actor )

... 2002

This Is My Body

Clara ( Actor )

... 2001

The Bridge

Lisbeth ( Actor )

... 1999