Mélanie Laurent
Mélanie Laurent (French pronunciation: [melani loʁɑ̃]; born 21 February 1983) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is an accomplished actress in the French film industry and the recipient of two César Awards and a Lumières Award. Internationally, Laurent is best known for her roles in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Now You See Me (2013), Operation Finale (2018) and 6 Underground (2019).
Laurent began acting at age sixteen, cast by Gérard Depardieu in a small role in the romantic drama The Bridge (1999). She gained wider recognition for supporting work in several French films, including the comedy Dikkenek (2006), 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 won the César Award for Most Promising Actress and the Prix Romy Schneider. Laurent made her Hollywood debut in 2009 with the role of 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 international 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. Her other notable works include the art-house drama The Round Up (2010), the comedy-drama The Day I Saw Your Heart (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). Additionally, she starred in Chris Weitz's 2018 drama Operation Finale, 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 in the Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. She made her singing debut with a studio album, En attendant (Waiting For You), in 2011.
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Movies (70)
The Night of Broken Glass
2027 · Berta Krützfeld
The Good Lawyer
2026 · Iris Saint Didier
Mata
2026 · India
The Wonderers
2025 · Madeleine Roussier
The Flood
2024 · Marie-Antoinette
Voir un ami
2024 · Director
Freedom
2024 · Director, Writer
Wingwomen
2023 · Carole, Director, Screenplay
Misterio a la vista
2023 · Claudette
Ride Above
2022 · Marie
No Limit
2022 · Producer
The Mad Women's Ball
2021 · Geneviève Gleizes, Screenplay, Director
Oxygen
2021 · Elizabeth 'Liz' Hansen
Escuadrón 6
2019 · Two
Inside the Operation
2018 · Self
Galveston
2018 · Director
Après Demain
2018 · Self
Operación Final
2018 · Hanna Elian
Mia and the White Lion
2018 · Alice Owen
L'Autostoppeuse
2018 · Emilie
Return of the Hero
2018 · Elisabeth Beaugrand
Diving
2017 · Director, Screenplay
My Son
2017 · Marie Blanchard
Paris Prestige
2017 · Margot
Eternity
2016 · Mathilde
Tomorrow
2015 · Self, Director
Frente al Mar
2015 · Lea
Boomerang
2015 · Agathe Rey
Breathe
2014 · Director, Screenplay
Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy
2014 · Self
El hombre duplicado
2014 · Mary
No Llores, Vuela
2014 · Jannia Ressmore
Los Ilusionistas: Nada es lo que Parece
2013 · Alma Dray
Night Train to Lisbon
2013 · Young Estefania
The Adopted
2011 · Lisa, Director, Screenplay
Beginners, así se siente el amor
2011 · Anna Wallace
The Day I Saw Your Heart
2011 · Justine Dhrey
Requiem for a Killer
2011 · Lucrèce
A Short Film About Making Beginners
2011
The Round Up
2010 · Annette Monod
The Concert
2009 · Anne-Marie Jacquet
Bastardos sin gloria
2009 · Shosanna
Every Jack Has a Jill
2009 · Chloe
The End of the Line
2009 · Narrator for France (voice)
The Business Trip
2008 · Réceptioniste de Hôtel
Souvenir
2008 · Party guest
Paris
2008 · Laetitia
The Killer
2008 · Stella
Less and Less
2008 · Writer, Director
L'amore nascosto
2007 · Sophie
Room of Death
2007 · Lucie Hennebelle
Days of Glory
2006 · Margueritte
Don't Worry, I'm Fine
2006 · Élise 'Lili' Tellier
Dikkenek
2006 · Natacha
Les Visages d'Alice
2005 · Alice
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
2005 · Minskov's Girlfriend
Rice Rhapsody
2005 · Sabine
The Last Day
2004 · Louise
I've Been Waiting So Long
2004 · la jeune fille à l'usine
Snowboarder
2003 · Célia
Jean Moulin, une affaire française
2003 · Alice Arguel (jeune)
La faucheuse
2003 · Isabelle
Le Grand Mezze
2002
Summer Things
2002 · Carole
This Is My Body
2001 · Clara
The Bridge
1999 · Lisbeth
Rosa Bonheur
· Rosa Bonheur
Long Years Ago
The Mother
· Director
La rage
· Director, Screenplay
TV shows (14)
The Hunt
2026 · Krystel
Equipo del terror
2023 · Fiona Bunrady (voice)
Beau geste
2023 · Self
Little America
2020 · Sylviane
Clique
2013 · Self - Guest
Running Man
2010
C à vous
2009 · Self - Guest
X Femmes
2008 · Director, Screenplay
Vous les femmes
2007
Jean Moulin, une affaire française
2003 · Alice Arguel (young)
Sophie's Misfortunes
1998 · Camille de Fleurville (voix)
Télématin
1985 · Self
Cérémonie des César
1976 · Self - Presenter
La grande
· Director