MÃÆ' © lanie Laurent ( French pronunciation: Ã, [melani lo ???] Ã, ( Ã, listen ) born February 21, 1983) is an actress , French singer, pianist, screenwriter, and director. Born in Paris to a Jewish family, he was introduced to acting at the age of sixteen by GÃÆ' Â © rard Depardieu, who plays him in a minor role in the romantic drama The Bridge (1999). The recipient of two CÃÆ'Â Â © sar Awards, an ÃÆ'â € ° toiles d'or du cinÃÆ'Â © ma franÃÆ'§ais , and the LumiÃÆ'¨res Award, Laurent has established himself as an outstanding actress in the French film industry.
Laurent gained recognition for his support work in several French films, most notably the 2006 comedy Dikkenek , which he won the ÃÆ'â € ° toiles d'Or for Best Female Newcomers. His breakthrough role came in the 2006 drama film Do Not Worry, I'm Alright, who later won the Caesar Award for the Most Promising Actress and Prix Romy Schneider. Laurent made her Hollywood debut in 2009 with her lead role as Shosanna Dreyfus in the blockbuster Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds . He garnered critical acclaim for his performance and won the Critics of Online Film Critics and the Film Critics Award for Best Film Association of Austin.
Although he has worked primarily in independent films, including Paris and Enemy, Laurent has also appeared in commercially successful Hollywood movies, including comedy dramas Beginner (2011), and the capturing movie Now You See Me (2013), who first earned her a nomination at the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other famous works of Laurent include the art house drama The Round Up (2010), the drama comedy Et soudain, tout monde me manque (2011), and the mystery of Night thriller Train to Lisbon (2013). He is also known for voicing Mary Katherine and Disgust in the French dubs Epic (2013) and Inside Out (2015) respectively.
In addition to his film career, Laurent has performed at the production stage in France. He made his theater debut in 2010 at Nicolas Bedos' Promenade de santà ©  © . Short film De moins en moins (2008) marks his debut as a filmmaker. The feature film director's debut is The Adopted (2011). Respire (2014), their second production as director, was screened in International Criticism Week at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. She made her singing debut with studio album En t'attendant in May 2011 ; the album contains twelve songs, five of which are co-written and produced by Irish folk musician Damien Rice.
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MÃ © lanie Laurent was born in Paris, France, daughter of Annick, a ballerina, and Pierre Laurent, the voice actor (who dubbed the character of Ned Flanders in the French version of The Simpsons). He is Jewish, of both Ashkenazi (Jewish-Polish) and Sephardic (ancestral Tunisian-Jew). His grandfather was safely deported by the Nazis. Her maternal grandmother is a movie poster editor. He grew up in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. His Polish-Jewish grandfather was deported from Poland during the Nazi occupation.
Laurent visited the set of Asterix and Obelix with his friend and his last father. His acting career began when actor GÃÆ' Â © rard Depardieu, seeing Laurent there, asked if he wanted to be in the movie. Laurent replied, "Why not?". He strongly advises him not to take acting classes because he believes he already has the necessary skills. When Laurent was 16, Depardieu gave him a share in the The Bridge , a drama he starred in and co-directed with FrÃÆ' Â © deric Auburtin. Laurent plays the role of Lisbeth Daboval, the daughter of one of the film protagonists, Claire Daboval.
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Careers
Early debut and success (2006-08)
Laurent played a small role in a number of films early in his career. She appeared in the drama Michel Blanc Summer Games, Jackie Chan drama Rice Rhapsody drama Jacques Audiard The Beat That My Heart Skipped and the filming war < i> Days of Glory of the Free French Army.
Laurent's breakthrough role came in 2006, when he played a 19-year-old teenager who missed his lost twin brother, at Philippe Lioret's Do not Worry, I'm Alright. She won the Caesar Award for the Most Promising Actress for her performance. In a review for Variety , Ronnie Scheib praised Laurent and wrote that he, "makes a downward spiral of enthusiastic characters completely trustworthy without engaging in moody gloom." In the same year, he and Belgian actor Jà © à © rà ©  © n Renier was awarded Romy Schneider and Jean Gabin of France for the most promising actors and actresses. Laurent later starred in Franco-Belgian Dikkenek , a comedy directed by Olivier Van Hoofstadt who has achieved cult movies for years because of his Belgianya style of humor, in which he co-starred alongside Marion Cotillard, JÃÆ'Ã… © rÃÆ' © Renier noodles, Jean-Luc Couchard and Dominique Pinon. For her performance in the film, Laurent won the ÃÆ' â € ° toiles d'Or for Best Female Newcomer.
In 2007, Laurent appeared in the film including Le tueur and Hidden Love . She was nominated for the LumiÃÆ'¨res Award for Best Actress for her performance at La Chambre des morts. Laurent next appeared in the comedy drama CÃÆ'Â Â © dric Klapisch 2008 Paris , a French film about a diverse group of people. The film features ensemble players including Laurent, Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, and FranÃÆ'§ois Cluzet. The film was well received by critics with praise aimed at Laurent and the other players. Hollywood's debut and breakthrough (2009-10)
Hollywood debut and breakthrough (2009-10)
Laurent is scheduled to play her first drama, Mi-cuit coeur pistache (the name of dessert she so loves) in January 2009 at ThÃÆ' Â ¢ ÃÆ' Â ¢ Ã ¢ â,¬ Â ¢ tre Marigny in Paris. She had to leave the project when she was cast as Shosanna Dreyfus, a Parisian who seeks revenge on the Nazis in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds with Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger and Christoph Waltz. It was a French-speaking role that he learned to speak English for some scenes. The film was a huge commercial and critical success, grossing over $ 321 million in theaters worldwide. Laurent's appearance was praised by several critics. Kyle Buchanan of Movieline wrote: "MÃ © lanie Laurent gave Inglourious Basterds his heart and soul.It fell to a 26-year-old French actress to become an anchor of some of the World War II Movies the most challenging is Shosanna. "
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Laurent should have received a nomination at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards, saying, "In drawing attention to one player, in particular, which they left behind the Best Supporting Actor category, [. I am really fond of this show and I suspect that many others too, "and further praised the performance of Laurent added," [Laurent] beamed and, in Tarantino's unique, heartbreaking way. Sexy and luminous in the heat his courage, putting out the fire - and setting it in. It was a song of hate and joy noir, a sign that Laurent, as Shosanna, had found his destiny. "
In an interview, Laurent said that he entered the Inglourious Basterds with a cult for Quentin Tarantino. "[The Frenchman] did not see him like an independent director, we only saw him as the best director, [from the United States]." About the audition process, Laurent said that she knew early on that this was the movie she had to go into when she felt a connection to her role in the film, because of her Jewish family history.
In addition, Laurent won numerous awards for his role as Shosana including the Austin Film Critics Award for Best Actress Award and Critics Award for Best Film for Best Actress, and nominations at Detroit Film Critics Award, Empire Award for Best Actress, and Saturn Award for Best Actress among others. The highly anticipated film, which has been developed since 1998, marks Laurent's first major role in American films and Laurent finds herself driven into mainstream success in North America.
Laurnet's compatriots Julien Boisselier and Marie Denarnaud, MÃ © Å © lanie Doutey and Louise Monot will be in production while short film clips are projected on stage, some of them shot at Le Baron nightclub, used by Laurent. often during the writing period.
In 2010, Laurent starred in The Round Up, a French film directed by Roselyne Bosch, and produced by Alain Goldman, with Jean Reno, Sylvie Testud, and Gad Elmaleh. Based on the true story of a young Jew, the film depicts Vel 'd'Hiv Roundup, a mass arrest of Jews by French police who were Nazi accomplices in Paris in July 1942. Laurent's film and appearance was well received by critics, with Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian who thinks it's "good practice". John Anderson of Newsday praised Laurent by saying that he gave "inspiring performance as a Gentile nurse".
Continuous success (2011-present)
Laurent has also planned another feature film, Putain de pluie! , produced by Alain Attal Productions du TrÃÆ'Ã… sor, whose script he wrote with Morgan Perez and which he meant to direct. Originally set for filming in the spring of 2009, it was postponed due to his work on Inglourious Basterds. Knowing that he can speak French, and has acted in French in one of the short films in Paris, je taaime, he offers the first role for Natalie Portman, who refused because of the script language.
Laurent plays the role of violinist in Radu Mih? Ileanu's Le Concert - he calls it "smart films and popular movies," and adds that he is "glad that the French want to watch a movie with classical music." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle < "The Concert" was a breakthrough for him, in that it would open his emotional gates ".
Laurent hosted the opening ceremony and closing of the 64th Cannes Film Festival. In 2011, he teamed up with Mike Mills, appearing before Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer in Beginners, a comedy that marks Laurent's second English-language role in Hollywood. Laurent plays Anna, a rude French actress. Loosely based on Mills' own life, the film depicts the story of a father coming out of a closet at age 75 after the death of his 45-year-old wife. The film was opened for critical acclaim and Laurent's performance was well received, with Calvin Wilson from St. Louis Post-Dispatch commented that Laurent gave a "compassionate charisma" into the role.
Laurent later starred Jeremy Irons on Night Train to Lisbon, a 2013 drama based on a novel of the same name directed by Bille August. Jessica Kiang of Indie Wire noted that Laurent was "under-assigned" but praised her performance for writing that she "took advantage of her cut-off screen time."
Laurent appeared in the Louis Leterrier 2013 captor Now You See Me as a French Interpol agent investigating bank theft with Mark Ruffalo and the ensemble player. The film was a massive commercial success of more than 351.7 million dollars, receiving mixed reviews but praise for performances from all players. Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter gave Laurent the highest praise and wrote, "[Laurent] is responsible for the only measurable warmth of the film."
Laurent's next release, the Canadian-Spanish psychological thriller Enemy , directed by Denis Villeneuve, was screened at the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Adapted loosely by Javier GullÃÆ'³n from the 2002 novel of José Saramago The Double, the film was opened for critical acclaim. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as two men who are physically identical, but different in personality. Laurent and Sarah Gadon serve as romantic partners of men.
In 2014, Laurent appeared at Aloft , a 2014 drama film written and directed by Claudia Llosa, with Jennifer Connelly and Cillian Murphy. The film premiered in a competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Laurent voiced Mary Katherine at Blue Sky Studios' Epic , and Disgust in Pixar's Inside Out in French animated films.
In 2015, Laurent starred alongside Laurent Lafitte, in the French drama François Favrat Booemerang which was adapted from the best-selling book titled A Secret Kept by Tatiana De Rosnay. The film was released on 23 September 2013 for positive critical reviews. The Hollywood Reporter writes, "Boomerang is a solid, if conventionally made profitable from strong players and plots that hook you up for most of the running time." Laurent later starred as LÃÆ'Ã… © a at Angelina Jolie's By the Sea , an American drama, written and directed by Jolie. The film also stars Jolie and Brad Pitt, and was released on November 13, 2015, by Universal Pictures.
Filmmaker's career (2008-present)
Laurent debuted as a director with a short film in 2008 De moins en moins , which he also wrote, a 7 minute movie about a patient who "remembers fewer" in front of his psychiatrist. The film was nominated for Best Short Film at the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the pieds, an erotic short film that aired on French Canal television channel October 25-26, 2008, as part of a series of short films, called X Femmes
In 2011, he directed his first film, The Adopted . Her second film, Respire , was screened in the International Critique Week section of the Cannes 2014 Film Festival and received high praise. He later directed the 2015 documentary Tomorrow , which earned him the Caesar Award for Best Documentary.
In an interview with Indiewire in 2014, Laurent admits that she loves to write: "Writing is very interesting because you have everything to do and most of your ideas come from the first part... you imagine and you imagine the actor. "He described the shooting process as" fun part "because:" working with my loved ones - it's always a great human moment because we share things and it's good to see people which is here for you and your story, to tell your story.It's beautiful, that's why I love to make movies. "
In November 2016, it was announced that Laurent would make his English director debut with Galveston , a film adaptation of Nic Pizzolatto novel of the same name, starring Ben Foster and Elle Fanning.
Singing career
Laurent made her singing debut in May 2011 with studio album En t'attendant , under the label AtmosphÃÆ' Ã… © riques. Produced by Joel Shearer, the album contains twelve songs, five of which are co-written and produced by Irish folk musician Damien Rice. The album peaked at number 22 and number 35 on Belgian Charts Albums and French Album Charts respectively. She recorded an album with Rice, living among Woodstock, New York and her home in Ireland. In an interview, Laurent revealed that spending time at Rice's home in Ireland inspired her to maintain a compost pile and eat organic food.
Personal life and off-screen work
Laurent is in long-term relationship with fellow French actor Julien Boisselier who ended in 2009. In March 2013, it was revealed that he was married but refused to name his spouse. He told The Independent, "he's a crew member and I'm an actress." Her first child with her husband, a son named LÃÆ'Â © o, was born in September 2013.
Laurent has proven himself as a successful actress in French cinema. In an interview in 2009, he explained that he has no ambition to become a crossover actress. He states that he loves France, his way, his cafes, and does not have to use a car. Instead of continuing to work on a great budget American film after Inglourious Basterds , his next role is in a small theater in France. Laurent describes recording artist Damien Rice and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino as two "masters" in terms of their art.
Laurent visits the Climate Defenders Camp on the Indonesian Rainforest peatland along with Greenpeace activists. He is one of the Climate Ambassadors for Kofi Annan's Global Humanitarian Campaign, "Tck Tck Tck" Campaign. He joined the campaign against overfishing at the invitation of the Blue Marine Foundation, and was cast for the voice of the End of the Line documentary. He is also one of the leading celebrities in the successful French Fish Fight campaign, which called for new European law to reduce the level of fish scattering in the European seas.
Filmography and awards
Selected filmography
Accolades
For her role in Do not Worry, I'm Alright Laurent won the CÃÆ'Â © sar Award and LumiÃÆ'¨res Award in the Most Promising Actress category. She received many awards for her roles in the Inglorious Basterds including Best Actress Awards at the Austin Film Critics Awards Awards and the Critics Society's Online Film Award among others. Laurent Films Demain won the Caesar Award for Best Documentary Film.
Discography
See also
References
External links
- MÃÆ' Â © lanie Laurent on IMDb
- MÃÆ'Ã… © lanie Laurent on Rotten Tomatoes
- MÃÆ'Ã… © lanie Laurent in AlloCinÃÆ' Â © (in French)
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