Virginie Ledoyen
Acting
Biography
Virginie Ledoyen (born Virginie Fernandez; 15 November 1976) is a French actress. At the age of 2, she was already shooting advertisements for television. At 9, she started going to the École des Enfants du Spectacle, and made her film debut at 10 in Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (1986). She was then nominated for the César (the French equivalent of an Oscar) for most promising actress in 1993, 1994 and 1995. Her international breakthrough was in 1999, when she became ambassador for the cosmetics L'Oréal; this led to her casting in The Beach (2000), with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Born: November 15, 1976
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Remi, Nobody's Boy
At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its hard sides - he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the small monkey Joli-Coeur, his long trip through France, made for meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, leads him to the secret of its origins.
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
She is said to be cold, secretive and mysterious. She has the reputation of not letting anything of her intimate thoughts, her private life, her joys as well as her torments show through. She managed to protect her family, her loves, her choices from the curiosity of magazines and her public. A tour de force for a sixty year long career with more than one hundred and thirty films shot with the greatest filmmakers in the world. However, the raw material for a very personal account of Catherine Deneuve exists: it can be found in the interviews given by the actress from her beginnings until today. They allow us to discover another Catherine Deneuve.
La Vie de Marianne
In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the deadly attack on a convoy.
Mahjong
Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.
La Cérémonie
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Nona and Her Daughters
Actor-turned-director Valérie Donzelli brings us Nona and Her Daughters, a delightful 30-minute dramedy series on the theme of motherhood. Nona, brought to life by the enchanting Miou-Miou (Going Places, Entre Nous) is a 70-year-old feminist. She’s madly in love with André and finally free of taking care of her daughters — 40-year-old triplets played by Virginie Ledoyen, Clotilde Hesme and Valérie Donzelli, herself. She adores her family, life is beautiful and she’s living it to the fullest… Until the day she discovers that she’s pregnant!
The Island of Thirty Coffins
Christine lost her son at birth 15 years ago. Or so she believes, until she receives a video suggesting he might not be dead. That sends her hurrying back to the island of her childhood in Brittany to discover the truth in an investigation confronting multiple mysteries.
Nose
For the first time in a documentary feature, the prestigious House of Dior opened its doors to show the wonders of perfume creation. Travelers at heart, Arthur de Kersauson and Clément Beauvais followed François Demachy for two years and over 14 countries, from Grasse to the other side of the world, in his search for inspiration and the most precious raw materials.
Contre toi
Le monde de Fred
Do you like soccer? Do you like theater? Then you've got it! Lorànt Deutsch has come up with a revolutionary concept for our hero Fred, a frustrated film director who dreams of becoming a writer. In the meantime, he's doing a series of increasingly conventional and unsurprising interviews with footballers for sports channels. His love life is hardly more satisfying. He goes from conquest to conquest, refusing to be tied down. A blurred, disjointed daily routine. Until the day Fleur, more friend than conquest, tells him she's accidentally pregnant with his child. He had dreamed of being a producer, director or TV presenter. But never as a father.
Filmography
as Anna de Tintagel
as Editrice Gallimard - Alice Bosquet
as Anna de Tintagel
as Marie
as Sabine
as Esther Cavalieri
as Élisabeth Guardiano
as Sylvia
as Candice
as voix-off
as Anne de Pisselieu
as Christine Vorski
as Self (archive footage)
as Emmanuelle
as Self
as Coco
as Mother
as Madame Harper
as Cécile
as Lucie Baud
as Eva Beaufils
as Félicia
as The Woman
as Anne Duplessis
as Léa
as Dolorès
as Lisa
as La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac
as Irina
as Agathe
as Mélinée Manouchian
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Audrey
as Louise
as Julie
as Lucy
as Self - Guest
as Marie
as Emilie
as Anna Jurin
as La femme de ménage
as Camille
as Suzon
as Maria
as La fille que tout le monde veut sortir avec
as Cosette
as Françoise
as Anne
as Cécile Maudet
as Billy's Mother
as Jeanne
as Marianne
as Johanna
as La fille au pistolet
as Marthe
as Valérie
as Melinda
as Christine
as Christine
as Violette
as Charlie Léger
as Samantha
as Gabrielle
as Mima
as Self
as Berthe